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When we had Dish TV for our previous campers, I could never hook up the outside "cube" to the connection in the trailer. That connection was simply a coax connection on the outside and a wire just long enough to go through the wall and a connection on the inside of the wall. There was something about that connection that Direct TV did not like. And forget about hooking it up to the outside cable connections. That absolutely did not work.

We always just strung the wire through a window. Satellite signals are very picky. If the coax wire is not the right kind or the connectors are not the right kind, Dish TV just does not work. We found, the only Coax cable that worked also, was the cable supplied by Dish TV. Store brands of different types never worked.

That was several years ago, but it sounds like Dish TV hasn't changed anything there to make their system more user friendly. They really want you to be enslaved to their propitiatory technology.