Hooking Up Residential Antenna

[dbaur]

The omnidirectional antenna on our 2016 Classic will not pick up stations at our winter location. We have an antenna on our cabana that works fine for the TV in our cabana. It will support 2 televisions. How can we hook this antenna up to our Classic. The cable connection does not work for this purpose. Will appreciate anyone with experience on this. Thank you.

[Al and Missy]

If the cable connection works for cable, it should work for your antenna. Your antenna, however, may have a preamp at the antenna and a power supply somewhere else. If so, there will be a rectangular housing mounted on the mast/tower near the antenna. If you have a preamp, it must receive power from the power supply. There are a couple of options to connect to it for the trailer.


1. Put a splitter near one of your residential TVs and run a cable to the trailer. This can be a conventional splitter.


2, If the first option isn't feasible and you want to connect to the antenna outside, you will need a special splitter with a DC path. For a two way splitter, there are two connectors on one side and one on the opposite side of the housing. Connect the single connector to the antenna. On the label there will probably be a line between the single connector and one of the two other connectors. Connect the cable from the house there. Connect a cable to your trailer from the other connector, the one without the line. DC from the power supply in the house flows along the path with the line to the preamp, but signal from the preamp flows from the single connector to both of the other connectors.


https://www.amazon.com/Diplexer-Spli.../dp/B00UWDLFUY




Al

[Al and Missy]

Originally Posted by Al and Missy

If the cable connection works for cable, it should work for your antenna. Your antenna, however, may have a preamp at the antenna and a power supply somewhere else. If so, there will be a rectangular housing mounted on the mast/tower near the antenna. If you have a preamp, it must receive power from the power supply. There are a couple of options to connect to it for the trailer.


1. Put a splitter near one of your residential TVs and run a cable to the trailer. This can be a conventional splitter.


2, If the first option isn't feasible and you want to connect to the antenna outside, you will need a special splitter with a DC path. For a two way splitter, there are two connectors on one side and one on the opposite side of the housing. Connect the single connector to the antenna. On the label there will probably be a line between the single connector and one of the two other connectors. Connect the cable from the house there. Connect a cable to your trailer from the other connector, the one without the line. DC from the power supply in the house flows along the path with the line to the preamp, but signal from the preamp flows from the single connector to both of the other connectors.


https://www.amazon.com/Diplexer-Spli.../dp/B00UWDLFUY




Al

I realized I may have not been clear in option 2, and I picked a bad picture for the example. First, the splitter should be placed in the line between the preamp and the house, not between the preamp and the antenna. Second, the item I pictured is for use with TV and satellite antennas. You want a splitter for TV only with a DC path.


https://www.dipolnet.com/2-way_tv-fm...ss__R55202.htm


Also, in either case above you must turn off the preamp in the trailer with the push-button on the wall plate just as you would to use cable at a campsite. Then you must scan for channels with the trailer TV, but use the antenna option since those are the kind of signals you are looking for.



Al

[dbaur]

Thank you, Al. I looked at the 2-way Diplexer on Amazon but there are lines to both connectors...one is red and says DC pass. I am assuming this is the one that hooks into the cable connector on the trailer. And it would follow that the other connector goes into the house or our cabana. Is this correct? I really appreciate your help.

Originally Posted by Al and Missy

If the cable connection works for cable, it should work for your antenna. Your antenna, however, may have a preamp at the antenna and a power supply somewhere else. If so, there will be a rectangular housing mounted on the mast/tower near the antenna. If you have a preamp, it must receive power from the power supply. There are a couple of options to connect to it for the trailer.


1. Put a splitter near one of your residential TVs and run a cable to the trailer. This can be a conventional splitter.


2, If the first option isn't feasible and you want to connect to the antenna outside, you will need a special splitter with a DC path. For a two way splitter, there are two connectors on one side and one on the opposite side of the housing. Connect the single connector to the antenna. On the label there will probably be a line between the single connector and one of the two other connectors. Connect the cable from the house there. Connect a cable to your trailer from the other connector, the one without the line. DC from the power supply in the house flows along the path with the line to the preamp, but signal from the preamp flows from the single connector to both of the other connectors.


https://www.amazon.com/Diplexer-Spli.../dp/B00UWDLFUY




Al

[dbaur]

Al, Thanks again but could not find splitter you recommended other than the link you sent and they require a minimum order of 500 euros. Did not come up on amazon. Any suggestions?

[dbaur]

Is there anyone who manufacturers the TV only splitter or something comparable that sells to individuals? Is there anything comparable on Amazon? Thank you for your help with this. Dave

Originally Posted by dbaur

Al, Thanks again but could not find splitter you recommended other than the link you sent and they require a minimum order of 500 euros. Did not come up on amazon. Any suggestions?

[RJJ]

I'd like to do this, too, so I'm subscribing to this thread❗👀 😏 😎

[dbaur]

I had purchased a "pingbingding" antenna from amazon. The booster provided with the antenna has two coax connections on the back and a third connection that goes to the first television. One coax connection goes directly from the antenna and the other to a second television. I hooked up the second one and ran the coax to the cable connection on the side of our Classic, turned off the booster inside the trailer, and it works great. Problem solved.

[moosetags]

Originally Posted by dbaur

I had purchased a "pingbingding" antenna from amazon. The booster provided with the antenna has two coax connections on the back and a third connection that goes to the first television. One coax connection goes directly from the antenna and the other to a second television. I hooked up the second one and ran the coax to the cable connection on the side of our Classic, turned off the booster inside the trailer, and it works great. Problem solved.

Glad to hear. I am looking to do similar. How are you mounting the antenna outside of the Airstream?

Brain

[uncle_bob]

Hi

This:

https://www.amazon.com/BAMF-SAT-CATV...te+tv+splitter

will do the job. Just ignore the stuff about "satellite" and "cable". It will do the job.

The DC pass part goes to whatever side has the power for the antenna (usually the cabin). The other side goes to the part that does not feed DC to the antenna (usually the trailer).

Bob