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11-08-2013, 02:02 PM
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How do i connect a cable box to my Phaeton
I am staying at a campsite where the satellite signal is weak due to trees so can only get a few channels. The campsite gave me a cable box so i can get all their cable channels but I cannot seem to find where to hook it in to my system. I wanted to just use my tripod feed in but the audio/video output is a problem as the cable box just has one yellow video out and I have red/blue/green component connectors. I can get basic cable on the tv by connectin their cable in to my cable input socket but without hooking in the box cannot get all the channels. Anyone know how I can get the cable box into the circuit without onbolting a tv to get the the yellow video input ?
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11-08-2013, 03:40 PM
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The box would go between the TV and the output of the cable TV cable. I assume you have some sort of switch box. You would connect the box to the output to the TV and place the cable going to the TV into the output of the box.
If you wanted cable to All TVs, you would place the box between the inbound cable and the switch box. Either of these would require another short piece of cable.
Alternately, pull the cable from the switch box, plug it into the box, then take the cable to the TV and plug that into the box.
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11-08-2013, 03:42 PM
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For $20 or so you can get a RF modulator that will take the red, white, and yellow inputs and out put on chan. 3 or 4. Just connect it to the cable input. Try Radio Shack,
Wal-Mart, Best Buy
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11-09-2013, 11:12 AM
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I cant find a switch box. Seems all the switching is done in the tv sets. There are a bunch of control boards etc, one says hdmi interface, in the cargo area but i cant find anywhere to hook in a coax or a yellow video input for the cable box output.
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11-09-2013, 11:40 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stevetoo
I am staying at a campsite where the satellite signal is weak due to trees so can only get a few channels. The campsite gave me a cable box so i can get all their cable channels but I cannot seem to find where to hook it in to my system. I wanted to just use my tripod feed in but the audio/video output is a problem as the cable box just has one yellow video out and I have red/blue/green component connectors. I can get basic cable on the tv by connectin their cable in to my cable input socket but without hooking in the box cannot get all the channels. Anyone know how I can get the cable box into the circuit without onbolting a tv to get the the yellow video input ?
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Connect their cable to the cable box. the r,w,y to the RF Modulator, the RF output of the RF Mod to the cable input on the RV.
Select output chan. on RF Mod, set TV to same Chan#
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11-09-2013, 12:12 PM
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Sketch
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11-10-2013, 09:46 PM
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the cable box also has an rf output, so I suppose I could run a 40' coax from the pylon to the cable box in the motorhome then run another 40' cable back to the cable input in the electrical comprtment at the rear of the bus. I tried putting the cable box in the rear compartment but it operates on an IR remote so that isnt feasible. I managed to get a sat signal strength around 60 so I have several channels available. How well do the signal boosters work? that might be another option if I could get a stronger satellite signal I could use that instead of cable.
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