Electrical TV Reception

[Ren77]

Morning members, just wanted to pick your brain regarding TV reception. We have internal and external TV antenna points. We tuned in TV inside the van no probs at all but went to take the TV outside for hubby to watch the V8s yesterday but the reception was crappy. Is the 'booster' supposed to be hooked up to both antennae points as this is what I'm thinking may be the issue. Any thoughts/hints of what we can check to fix this?

 

[Crusty181]

There no real explanation when it comes to TV cabling. This is one area that Jayco have struggled with for many years.

The short answer is it should work fine, and it is impossible to know which of the many and varied balls up options Jayco have chosen to implement on your van. Jayco do many thing well, some things ok ..... and then there's Jayco TV cabling.

Maybe start with pulling out the wall plates and having a look at the connections, thats a area Jayco consistently struggle with.

 

[davemc]

If you disconnect the internal aerial does it make a difference?
When we got ours they had connected the three into the booster incorrectly you have
From Aerial,
From external
and then to external point.
Although I expect you get nothing outside?
Where I live I can get signal a lot of the time with just a lead no aerial so not easy to check.

As @Crusty181 said seems a few problems with TV.. We will be back in a few weeks for take 3 to fix ours.
Although pretty its the main cable going from the roof down like I said in take 1.. They look to have cut a section out and replaced.. I think the coax is crap. I can run a lead from aerial through 4 seasons hatch to back of wineguard and its fine