Dish Home Temporary Hookup

Grandesigner

Grandesigner

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Looks like we will be staying in the 5W for a while at home due to work on the house. I would like to temporarily move the set top box to the 5W and use it with the TV in there.
Has anyone done this and what are the hookups needed from the dish to the 5W and within the 5W?
Thanks in advance.
 
^^ 2 what [MENTION=26275]geotex1[/MENTION] said

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Sounds well and good, but which is the right place to hook it up from the dish?
This is my best guess...

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Okay, so I hooked everything up and it searched for signal forever. So I went straight from the dish junction to the tuner box and it worked normally.
Next I checked for continuity from the above 5W point to the plate inside the unit, with the booster turned off. There appeared to be continuity, so I scratched my head and tried again. I can play dvr recordings but can't tune into a live signal using the units connections, so it's basically a boat anchor...
I'm guessing the units wiring is sub par, maybe a loose connection somewhere?
 
Grandesigner said:
Okay, so I hooked everything up and it searched for signal forever. So I went straight from the dish junction to the tuner box and it worked normally.
Next I checked for continuity from the above 5W point to the plate inside the unit, with the booster turned off. There appeared to be continuity, so I scratched my head and tried again. I can play dvr recordings but can't tune into a live signal using the units connections, so it's basically a boat anchor...
I'm guessing the units wiring is sub par, maybe a loose connection somewhere?
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Well, very notoriously across the industry the plates get mis-wired, and I'd check that first. Worst case, run the coax directly into your rig through the slide seal right to your tuner/Hopper. Do note you will need to run the reset algorithm.
 
Thanks,
Anyone with a 260RD or similar have to chase down 'cable' connections yet?
Any clues on path and access points would be great...
 
I use Dish when traveling with a Winegard Pathway antenna. I couldn’t get the Grand Design coax to work reliably so I ended up running a new cable though a bulkhead coax connector connector in the slide out floor of my Reflection 337RLS. Then behind the fireplace into the cabinet above the TV. I placed the dish box in the cabinet.

I found the RV coax subpar. I bought some 50 ft Quad Shielded coax https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GBVYAZC/ to run from the antenna to the bulkhead connector and a shorter piece of Quad shielded coax inside from bulkhead to dish box. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0758GBZ92

The bulkhead connector was similar to this https://www.amazon.com/Furrion-FTVINB-BS-Black-Square-Miniature/dp/B017P8HASY/
 
Grandesigner said:
Okay, so I hooked everything up and it searched for signal forever. So I went straight from the dish junction to the tuner box and it worked normally.
Next I checked for continuity from the above 5W point to the plate inside the unit, with the booster turned off.
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The "booster" or amplifier is only in the coax line that goes to the over the air antenna. The coax runs for cable or satellite use do not have an amplifier in the circuit, and hence do not need to have a booster turned off. Your picture shows you are using the correct input fitting, but are you sure you are on the correct fitting inside the trailer?

I understand your continuity test, but still doesn't sound right.
 
Yeah, there are 2 ports by the tv on one plate. The booster is linked to the OTA antenna and the other port says sat, which is the one I tried as the OTA was hooked up from the factory.
I suspect a loose connection or two behind the plates, the one behind the tv and the one in my pic above...just haven't had time to check them. Maybe tomorrow...
The readings from the continuity test were fluctuating, btw.
 
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Grandesigner said:
Yeah, there are 2 ports by the tv on one plate. The booster is linked to the OTA antenna and the other port says sat, which is the one I tried as the OTA was hooked up from the factory.
I suspect a loose connection or two behind the plates, the one behind the tv and the one in my pic above...just haven't had time to check them. Maybe tomorrow...
The readings from the continuity test were fluctuating, btw.
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OK, sounds like you have a plan. If you just take the plate off there will be a screw on F type fitting where the coax terminates to the plate. Hopefully you will find one or both loose and fix the problem. Seems like there may be a splitter in the circuit for sending a signal the the bedroom. If I remember correctly that may be accessible behind the connector plate at the TV.
 
Okay, so I spent some time on this and found this behind the TV...about half of them were loose. Same for the panel by the nautilus, so I was hopeful but no joy. Not enough signal getting to the dish box. Ended up running the cable thru the nearest window and sealing with backer rod for the week or so we will use it.
 

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On my 2018 303 RLS I cannot get the Dish receiver to connect to the dish outside using the factory coax. The runs are too long. I did what Jerryr did and ran a new shorter cable up through the slide and connect at the underside of the slide. I checked all the connections to make sure they were tight but still could not get enough power to the dish to acquire the signals. BTW, on my 303, the cable/antenna coax are the same run. With the booster on it uses the OTA, when off it will use the cable connection at the Nautilus panel. The satellite connection is a straight run to the tv and has just one jumper from the cabinet to the receiver, or in the Dish Carryout, to the power supply then the receiver. Hope you find a good solution.
 
Grandesigner said:
Good advice guys, except my slide is on the opposite side of the TV area...not sure I want to make a new hole or more than one.
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Not really. It's the impedence of the connections. Guaranteed there's a splitter of a poor rating considering what the cost per unit of those that would be used in a residential install are...
 
geotex1 said:
Not really. It's the impedence of the connections. Guaranteed there's a splitter of a poor rating considering what the cost per unit of those that would be used in a residential install are...
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It's my understanding that the satellite coax runs do not use splitters like there are on the OTA/cable runs. On my 2018 303 RLS there is a dedicated run from the Nautilus panel to the living room TV and another one to the bedroom (labeled Aux). There is a third one for the passthrough which jumps you from the street side of the basement to the curb side for an outdoor tv. The only connections in the satellite runs are the connectors to the wall plates and Nautilus panel.
 
Allyn56 said:
It's my understanding that the satellite coax runs do not use splitters like there are on the OTA/cable runs. On my 2018 303 RLS there is a dedicated run from the Nautilus panel to the living room TV and another one to the bedroom (labeled Aux). There is a third one for the passthrough which jumps you from the street side of the basement to the curb side for an outdoor tv. The only connections in the satellite runs are the connectors to the wall plates and Nautilus panel.
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Yes, and they should be orange coax and home runs. However, what should be versus what is varies, and the pass through plate couplings can be problens. Also, some line workers think routing at acute angles is also ok...
 
I was thinking how nice it would be to use the existing cable to chase a new one from point A to point B, but if the route has really sharp angles then it might snag I guess...
 
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