How to connect satellite dish via external coax point on bailey caravan

[jontygee]

Hi.

I have a Bailey unicorn deluxe vigo which has an external electrical and tv input socket.

This is a standard coax socket but i am wanting to use my satellite dish. So i am using f male connector to attach it externally.

Inside the caravan where the tv goes is another female coax socket. Do i was hoping i could attach another male f connector here and then run a satellite cable from that into my receiver.

However this doesn't seem to work??

I have attached pictures of the sockets and also of my vision plus tv amplifier if that helps??

Thanks

John

 

[jontygee]

Apologies my attachment doesn't seem to have worked. I will try again

 

[otherclive]

Apologies my attachment doesn't seem to have worked. I will try again

Did you press the small picture icon at the top of your post? Much above 1 mb and it may not load but will tell you if there’s an issue.

 

[Woodentop]

Check the wiring of the TV aerial amp and you will probably find that the external socket is connected to one of the aerial amp outputs to feed a TV in the awning. You should have a back-to-back female adapter supplied if the van is new. Disconnect both cables from the amp outputs and link them together with the adapter. This will mean that the outside connector is a direct connection to the inside - which is what you need for satellite.
Satellite needs supply volts up the cable of which there are two levels, and a 22KHz audio tone (or not) for a second function. One functions is for the two different frequency bands and the other is for vertical or horizontal polarity but I can never remember which is which! If you feed the signal through the amp the volts and the audio can't get through.
Note also that you can get a socket plate for the inside that has both a Belling-Lee (conventional TV socket) and a F-type socket, the back of both being a F-type socket as well. If that outlet plate is near the external box (where the feed is presented) you could probably run a separate cable direct from socket plate to power box and be able to used sat and DTTV at the same time.
Note: ALWAYS use F-type connections for satellite as not only do they present a better and more stable/solid connection, but B-L is only rated to about 850MHz whereas F-type will happily run to well over 2000MHz which satellite needs..

 

[Buckman]

Remove the coaxial only connection and replace with coaxial and F connectors. The F connector is for the sat connection. On the inside we took the sat cable under the bunks and directly into the box which was a Sky+HD box. Looked neat.

 

[jontygee]

Did you press the small picture icon at the top of your post? Much above 1 mb and it may not load but will tell you if there’s an issue.

Thanks all my photos are too big so struggling to attach anything useful

 

[otherclive]

Thanks all my photos are too big so struggling to attach anything useful

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[Mr Plodd]

You can get just about every possible option to join push fit co-ax to F type connectors, F type will work just fine with satelitte or Freesat signals so replace all of the "old" type with tge F type where possible.
Ebay/Amazon/Temu all have them in abundance

 

[Woodentop]

You can get just about every possible option to join push fit co-ax to F type connectors, F type will work just fine with satelitte or Freesat signals so replace all of the "old" type with tge F type where possible.
Ebay/Amazon/Temu all have them in abundance

So do Screwfix (and Toolstation) and well cheap! Buy a pack of 10 at a time.