Winegard Crank-Up Installation Experience???

[skyshark]

Has anyone installed or replaced a Winegard Crank-Up satellite antenna? If so, my question is does the antenna base have coax mounts and pass throughs on top and bottom or is the cabling routed separately? I'm spiffing up the cabling and would be much happier to dig out some lap sealant on the roof and be able to replace 3 feet or so of cable versus trying to run an entire replacement from antenna to satellite receiver. I asked about that earlier and got some good advice regarding the difficulty of rerouting cable through the ceiling styrofoam channels. All input is appreciated...

[Triker56]

Replace it what type of dish?
Dome, Travl'er, Motosat

The new dish that you replace it with will need a power cable for the controller ran to it. and the Travl'er has up to 4 receiver outputs. So you will be better off running all new cable and drilling a new hole in the roof.

I replaced a crank up once with a auto one and ran all new cable. left the old cable where it was and sealed it in. New dish was much bigger and was installed in a different area.

[vito.a]

My Winegard crank-up has a metal coax connector with male threads on each side. It is installed in the crankup base. The coax cable then screws onto the connector.

If you are installing a satellite antenna, you should route new RG6 cable from the antenna to the receiver. Most of the older Winegard antennas will have RG58 coax. The RG58 will probably work, but it really should be RG6.