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Old 08-19-2022, 12:19 PM   #6
Mikendebbie
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Larry J - welcome to the forum and just a heads-up on the Tailgater. I could never get my Dish Tailgater to work by hooking it into the "satellite" port in the convenience center. It seems that the OEM splitters between the convenience center and the TVs are not conductive enough to let the coax-powered Tailgater signal get through. I started running the coax directly from the Tailgater - thru a nearby window to the back of my Joey black box. DW was not a fan of that method with a black wire dangling thru the window, so I ended up running 6' section of coax behind the TV - down and out thru the slide-out loom with a 6" exposed coax pigtail sticking down below the slide bottom. I hook the Tailgater up there and it works great. Some folks here have drilled a coax port thru the side of the slide for hooking up the Tailgater. Some folks have replaced the splitters with better quality splitters.
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