Park Cable

[AndrewC]

Using park cable in our 2021 TS. TV in living are is OK, but bunk, master bed and exterior will not find channels. Is there a splitter I need to locate? Also, in wetbay, seems the upper input RG6 is the one for park cable, why are there 2 inputs for cable TV?

Thanks in advance

[MoJoe1003]

I don’t know what’s happening with the first issue. However, the other input in the wet bay is for a carry out satellite dish.

[AndrewC]

Thanks Joe. After posting last night, I read the schematics. Still not seeing a splitter.
And... my understanding is that when on park cable, we do not powerup the antenna booster...


The hunt continues... good thing the sun is out here in Hatteras..

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[MoJoe1003]

It’s not a matrix setting, right?

[milkman55]

There is a splitter, my guess is behind where the antenna booster is mounted. The Matrix is not involved in the park cable. The coax is run directly to all the TV’s from the splitter.

If you have satellite, you should see two coax feeds from the roof satellite and the portable satellite port in the wet bay, but neither have anything to do with park cable.

If you turn the over the air antenna (OTA) on, can you get a TV signal? Assume you know you have to pick “Air” or “Cable” on the TV settings when you do the channel search. Just thinking if you get the OTA signal, the issue would not be the coax splitter.

[Desert Boat]

Do all TVs work on over the air TV, with booster on? If so, then they are properly plugged in to the splitter.

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Sometimes things get crossed in installation.

My park cable and satellite in the wet bay are reversed.

Don't know where the other end of the satellite feed goes in the Force, but could the main TV antenna be plugged in to the satellite feed?

If it were swapped at both ends, that might explain the behavior you see - the satellite line directly feeding one TV. In this case, we would expect the main TV to NOT work on OTA, the other TVs would.

[bclemens]

Back in the day, we used to use a splitter. However, in most of the newer coaches we get (3) TV outputs from the Wingard booster plate. there are (3) little coax pigtails. It "could" be, that if there was a 4th TV we used a splitter, but we have been trying to get away from them. The other issue could just be length of run. Going to the bedroom or outside T's....the signal strength just might not be enough.

[AndrewC]

All fixed.. seems to have been user error in my defense. The fireplace TV found cable channels quickly during the scan. The remaining TV's took much longer, and the operator was very impatient. All are running as advertised.

Thank you for all the insight.

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