I want to install a Dish on the roof and the Winegard 360 antenna has a connection for a satellite dish. Anyone know if that would work so I don’t have to run a new cable down through the roof?
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We don’t have a satellite dish on ours, but I think they might require both a control cable and the coax cable to pass from the actual dish to the inside receiver.
Vanleigh did provide satellite pre wiring under the white dome on the roof, with the interior termination near the TV/entertainment center. On our 39FBB, that’s just above the TV and fireplace.
You should check for the white dome pre wire as that could save you a lot of time and hassle. You can see it’s location in the photo below.
I installed a dish on the roof using the cables under the little white dome. Connected the receiver to the cable next to the living room TV and no signal to/from the dish. The cable is marked “Roof”. Do you know if the cable that was pre-wired from the roof passes through a splitter anywhere? I can’t find one, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t one hiding somewhere.
I verified that the receiver and dish work by running a loose coax cable through the door up to the roof-mounted dish.
So that leaves 3 possibilities: Either the cable marked “Roof” isn’t the one that goes to the roof, the coax cable was damaged during construction, or it has a splitter somewhere.
As Ryan mentioned, behind the fireplace and front storage compartment wall along with behind the wet bay is where I’ve found them.
If you have a circuit tester/toner, that would make tracing the coax a lot easier.
Our 2019 Vilano 370 GB had several coax cables labeled incorrectly in the cabinet above the TV/Fireplace.