Campground Cable Hookup

[dbp05ret]

After 2 years and 200 nights of camping in the our 2018 Oliver, I pulled into a campground for the first time with cable. I hooked the coax cable from the campground box to Oliver and another coax cable in the attic to the port on the winegard hookup in the attic. I performed a cable channel scan and received no channels. The little green light (antenna on/off) was off in the attic at the coax hookup. I then tried it with green light on. Still no channels. I then tried attaching the coax to the satellite port on outside of the Oliver. I did this in case it had been wired wrong. I got same result...no channels. Then, I ran a scan and got numerous channels via the antenna. I spoke with other campers and they state that the cable works great. I am assuming that my issue is operator error. Any advice on receiving the cable channels?

 

Edited February 24, 2020 by dbp05ret
clarification

[Mainiac]

Heard that at one time some antenna and cable hookups outside were mislabeled? Not sure when or year. Might be worthblooking?

[mossemi]

58 minutes ago, dbp05ret said:

After 2 years and 200 nights of camping in the our 2018 Oliver, I pulled into a campground for the first time with cable. I hooked the coax cable from the campground box to Oliver and another coax cable in the attic to the port on the winegard hookup in the attic. I performed a cable channel scan and received no channels. The little green light (antenna on/off) was off in the attic at the coax hookup. I then tried it with green light on. Still no channels. I then tried attaching the coax to the satellite port on outside of the Oliver. I did this in case it had been wired wrong. I got same result...no channels. Then, I ran a scan and got numerous channels via the antenna. I spoke with other campers and they state that the cable works great. I am assuming that my issue is operator error. Any advice on receiving the cable channels?

 

I hooked the coax cable from the campground box to Oliver.  Where is this connection?
I then tried attaching the coax to the satellite port on outside of the Oliver.  Is this connection on the rear of the trailer, street side or do you have 2 coax connections outside?

Have you tried running the coax from the campground box straight to the television?

 

[dbp05ret]

41 minutes ago, mossemi said:

I hooked the coax cable from the campground box to Oliver.  Where is this connection?
I then tried attaching the coax to the satellite port on outside of the Oliver.  Is this connection on the rear of the trailer, street side or do you have 2 coax connections outside?

Have you tried running the coax from the campground box straight to the television?

 

My plan tomorrow was to hook it straight to the TV through an open window as part of troubleshoot process. Thereby, by passing conventional hookup. Yes, street side rear.

[bhncb]

2 hours ago, dbp05ret said:

and another coax cable in the attic to the port on the winegard hookup in the attic

What exactly did you do here? It should only have been necessary to hook up the outside cable port connection , turn off the amplifier (green light), and change the TV signal source from air to cable. At least that's how it worked on my 2018.

[Mike and Carol]

41 minutes ago, bhncb said:

What exactly did you do here? It should only have been necessary to hook up the outside cable port connection , turn off the amplifier (green light), and change the TV signal source from air to cable. At least that's how it worked on my 2018.

That’s how it works on mine as well.

[dbp05ret]

That was what I initially did. 

 

[Trainman]

When we pickup up our 2019 the cable wires were crossed, thus they were miss marked. I just removed the inside panel in the garage and switched the coax cables. Not sure this is your problem, but our portable TV antenna would not work until the coax cables were correctly connected to the proper device.

trainman

[dbp05ret]

Problem solved. The military campground has 2 cable hookups. One that is where the other power hookups are and another on a post 3 feet away. I was trying the hookup that apparently is the old one. It had been disconnected. A fellow camper showed me the somewhat hidden new cable hookup. Too darn many channels now and I have been reminded why I cut the cord years ago.