Spartan 300 3912X 5er with 5 coax input cable hookups?

[CoMaddMax]

Does anyone know which one feeds what? I have 7 connections maybe 8 for TV's ( I can't open the side patio to see if it has 1 or 2). 2 in the bed room, 2 in the living room and 2 in the garage and then at least one for the side patio.

[rracer5]

Originally Posted by CoMaddMax

Does anyone know which one feeds what? I have 7 connections maybe 8 for TV's ( I can't open the side patio to see if it has 1 or 2). 2 in the bed room, 2 in the living room and 2 in the garage and then at least one for the side patio.

Wow!! Nothing labeled or covered/mentioned during PDI?? Well, here's my 2 cents worth;
In your docking station are your cable/satellite inputs. The 3 on the left are probably the satellite inputs for the main Tv, bedroom Tv, & patio/garage Tv (probably a high Ohm splitter involved somewhere, unless the patio only has 1 output). The one on the far right is probably for the park cable input to ALL Tv's. You'll just have to find the antenna booster to switch it on/off for OTA Tv or cable Tv.
Then inside, you will have outputs at each Tv for OTA/cable and the other for a satellite receiver box.


Hope I'm close for ya & you find the right combination.

[wildcatter]

Get two coax cables, one really long to reach from inside to the outside by the connection and one short one for the outside connections and a multi meter, plug one cable inside on a coax plug, take the cable to the outside and plug the short cable into one of the connections and Ohms it out, you can move the short cable around on the outside connections until you find where it goes, keep doing this until you find where all the connections go.

[RockyMtnMarty]

The 3 on the left are satellite feeds for each individual tv....and the one on the right is for cable hookup feeding all 3 tvs...as the previous respondent mentioned. The satellite feeds do not go through the antenna booster....the cable one does. Behind each tv are 2 connections, one from the antenna/single cable connection....the other from the individual satellite feeds.

When using your antenna....the booster helps your over the air signal. However, when connected to cable, the booster degrades the signal and therefore needs to be turned off when using a cable connection. There is one switch for the booster, typically behind one of the tvs. I struggled to get a decent picture when connected to cable even after turning the booster off.

I have found my cable signal to be way better when bypassing the antenna booster versus just turning it off....so I stopped using the external single cable connection altogether. I bought a 3 output splitter and I now connect the single campground cable feed to the 3 satellite inputs outside my rv using the 3x splitter.

For each tv I have a switchable "cable/antenna" splitter switch (cheap at walmart) with short cables connected to the satellite and antenna outputs behind each tv. So, whenever I choose to go from antenna hookup to cable hookup, I flick the cable/antenna switch behind each tv. This has improved my cable picture quality measurably...and I don't toggle the antenna booster switch.

[CoMaddMax]

Thanks for the info Wildcatter & RkyMtnMarty I rang mine out and have included a picture.