Over the air antenna not working

[bommo]

Just bought a 2018 roadtrek Zion srt, I love the rig very happy with purchase.

Stupid question, for the over the air antenna there are 2 coax outlets behind the tv and a red button. Which coax outlet do you use to connect over the air antenna (top or bottom) to TV and does the red light need ot be on (what is red light for anyway? ) I have the manual but it is very generic about OTA antenna.

 

[JBright11]

The light should be on as it is likely the power booster for the antennae. It should be off for park supplied cable or a satellite dish. At least that's how all of them I've had have worked.

Which coax is which I can't tell you.

 

[rjshiflet49]

And we've had a variety of issues with those two coaxial outlets.

1) On one fifth wheel, the wires were reversed in the wet bay where we would hook up to park cable and/or satellite. What said SAT was actually the park cable and vice-versa.

2) On another fifth wheel the wiring from the input for satellite was approximately 55' by the time they wound it here and there. And I believe the max for our satellite system was something like 30'. We had to run our coax wiring through the living room slide out and directly into the satellite receiver in the entertainment center for it to work.

3) And yet another...there were multiple connections along what should have been a single strand of coax from the antenna to the TV area, and some of those connections were loose and we had zero signal by the time it got to the TV. The manufacturer sent a repair person to our location to replace the wiring properly.

4) And another...there was a tiny (diameter) coaxial wire in the antenna itself which was broken. I had to pull the rooftop antenna and order that small section of coax. Once replaced the TV worked great.

Probably none of these will help you, but understand...there are SO MANY THINGS that can go wrong with RV antenna/TV setups. We've discovered a lot of them in our 25+ years of RVing.