remote dish

[itsrip]

Has anybody done this before? We are going camping in area that we know we can not get satellite reception from our roof mount dish (DTV) so we want to use an remote dish an can not make it work. Does anybody know the correct hook up procedure to allow a remote dish?? Thanks for any help rip& susie

[itsrip]

Has anybody done this before? We are going camping in area that we know we can not get satellite reception from our roof mount dish (DTV) so we want to use an remote dish an can not make it work. Does anybody know the correct hook up procedure to allow a remote dish?? Thanks for any help rip& susie

[smlranger]

I am sure there are better ways but this is how I have set up my rig to use either the on-board automatic dish (King Dome) or a portable dish mounted on a tripod:

I ran a separate coax from the overhead compartment (where my Direct TV box is) to an outside compartment under the driver's window. I installed a simple A-B switch in compartment near the Direct TV box...the A input has the cable coming from the roof-mounted King Dome and the B input on the switch has the cable from the outside compartment. Output from the A-B switch goes to input on the Direct TV box. If we cannot get a signal from the dome (trees, etc.), I set up the portable dish, connect it to the cable in the outside compartment, set the A-B switch to 'B' and proceed to aim the portable dish. It has always worked fine for us.

[John Hilley]

Just like smlranger said, but if you don't want to run a new cable you can use a diplexer at each end of the existing cable tv coax going into the entertainment center cabinet. Here is a link explaing diplexers http://www.prosatellitesupply.com/di...e_aspen_X1.htm

You can then use the A/B switch the same way as smlranger said.

[Bill Gotthelf]

Try and keep the RG-6 cable lenght at 75' or less. The voltage put out by the reciever to change polarity on the LNB drops to low to actually change polarity if the runs get longer than this. Also make sure you use RG-6 cable. I carry a spare dish and tripod with 75' of cable and when I have to use it I just run the wire in my door and into the back of my reciever behind the passenger seat. But what the heck I'm pretty lazy anyway.

[Clay L]

There are several ways to do it. Winegard recommends the diagram below. It doesn't show it but you can easily add an A/B switch to switch from the external dish to the rooftop dish. What Winegard is calling a power supply is the wallplate with the coax and switch for the TV booster antenna on it.

Note that this assumes your front TV is connected to the coax connector on the front of the wall plate. If yours isn't, you should put a splitter in the line labeled "To second TV" That will send the signal to both the front and rear TVs (if you have two TVS).

[Clay L]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Bill Gotthelf:
Try and keep the RG-6 cable lenght at 75' or less. The voltage put out by the reciever to change polarity on the LNB drops to low to actually change polarity if the runs get longer than this. Also make sure you use RG-6 cable. I carry a spare dish and tripod with 75' of cable and when I have to use it I just run the wire in my door and into the back of my reciever behind the passenger seat. But what the heck I'm pretty lazy anyway. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I haven't found that to be a problem. I once ran 150 feet of RG6 and the 13 to 18 volts dc showed no drop at the end. The LNB current draw is so low that that there is very little voltage drop in the RG6.

There is quite a bit of high frequency signal loss due to losses in the coax though. An amplifier is recommended for anything over 100 feet as I recall.

[itsrip]

Thanks everybody run a cable down the driver side windshield & out the front and hooked it to the dish and it worked fine, A_B switch at the encoder and good to go camping rip