TV booster cable .

wye replied on 12/11/2017 17:10

Posted on 12/11/2017 17:10

Need some advice please .

Off tomorrow on a 11 day 4 site trip visiting  family first stop Huntersmoon site .

The other 3 sites are CLs , this will only be our second stay on a club site in 15 years .

We are adviced that we will need a TV booster , and told 25 mtrs is usefull , they don't keep them for hire or sale , so its coax  cable and what plugs a male and a female ?

Thanks

 

mickysf replied on 14/11/2017 22:29

Posted on 14/11/2017 22:29

Have just looked at the web page for Hunters Moon and it appears you will only need the 25m cable and not the booster you mentioned at this site. Be aware that at other sites you may need your own aerial, cable and booster mind. It's best to check, hope this and contributions from others help.

ocsid replied on 15/11/2017 09:34

Posted on 15/11/2017 08:51 by cyberyacht

Hunters Moon must be practically line of sight to the IOW transmitter.

Posted on 15/11/2017 09:34

Not that I will use Huntersmoon, but literally the other side of the road at Birchwood I get an excellent TV signal from Rowridge IOW using the van's Status directional aerial. So no cable needed there and probably no facility to use one at most CLs.

SteveL replied on 15/11/2017 14:56

Posted on 15/11/2017 09:34 by ocsid

Not that I will use Huntersmoon, but literally the other side of the road at Birchwood I get an excellent TV signal from Rowridge IOW using the van's Status directional aerial. So no cable needed there and probably no facility to use one at most CLs.

Posted on 15/11/2017 14:56

It is 36 miles from the transmitter though. So I don't suppose it would take much to block it, and Huntersmoon is on a slightly different line. The site details leaflet does say TV reception is poor, and that a service is available on the bollard.

wye replied on 16/11/2017 19:14

Posted on 16/11/2017 19:14

Thank you for your responses .

We needed an Ariel cable to plug into the communal mask .

Thanks to the kind warden for the loan of his .

lornalou1 replied on 17/11/2017 22:02

Posted on 17/11/2017 22:02

i cannot understand the manufacturers on this one, they fit a connection in the battery box for sky tv but don't fit a standard coax connection for a standard tv aerial so we have to thread it through the window. WOW, brainwave-could the sky ones be taken out and changed to the "normal" ones. your thoughts please.

EmilysDad replied on 17/11/2017 22:40

Posted on 17/11/2017 22:02 by lornalou1

i cannot understand the manufacturers on this one, they fit a connection in the battery box for sky tv but don't fit a standard coax connection for a standard tv aerial so we have to thread it through the window. WOW, brainwave-could the sky ones be taken out and changed to the "normal" ones. your thoughts please.

Posted on 17/11/2017 22:40

My Coachman does have both ..... I just have to do a bit of swapping of co-ax cables at the booster box to use an aerial extension lead.

ocsid replied on 18/11/2017 08:50

Posted on 17/11/2017 22:02 by lornalou1

i cannot understand the manufacturers on this one, they fit a connection in the battery box for sky tv but don't fit a standard coax connection for a standard tv aerial so we have to thread it through the window. WOW, brainwave-could the sky ones be taken out and changed to the "normal" ones. your thoughts please.

Posted on 18/11/2017 08:50

You can readily buy adaptors to convert each way between coax and the so-called "F" connections so can use whatever coax cables are integrated into the van build.

Just be alert to the "gender" of the adaptors you need. You might need to buy female to female or male to male "F" couplers, these are sold by Screwfix etc. 

One of the many sources is B&Q;

 

tigerfish replied on 18/11/2017 19:23

Posted on 18/11/2017 19:23

As with Molly'sMummy, My Coachman has two TV inlet sockets in the Battery box adjacent to the mains inlet connector. One TV socket is for a satellite cable and the other for the Co-AX cable from an EHU.

That excellent arrangement overcomes the need to run a cable through a window opening.

TF

Milothedog replied on 19/11/2017 09:17

Posted on 19/11/2017 09:17

The same on my Elddis, in the battery box below the EHU point there is TV , Sat dish and a Solar panel connection

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