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Thinker
Senior Member Joined: 25 Feb 2013 Location: S. Mississippi Online Status: Offline Posts: 171 |
Topic: TV confusion with new 178 Posted: 16 Jul 2013 at 5:27pm |
No my TV is the dinky little combo unit with about a 10" screen. Make sure you antenna amplifier is on. I routinely pull in from 40 miles over flat terrain. I only want enough to catch news for a bad weather report. |
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Tow Vehicle: 2013 Pathfinder 4WD R-POD Model 171
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KrogPod
Newbie Joined: 07 Jul 2013 Location: Central TX Online Status: Offline Posts: 26 |
Posted: 15 Jul 2013 at 8:32pm |
We were having reception issues also but after reading the info here I found the booster switch on the antenna connector panel in the cabinet. That was a great improvement but still not the best. I decided it hookup an indoor antenna and wala, we now have 16 clear stations.
This forum is the greatest. KrogPod Paul & Shirley |
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2014 RP-172, AKA KrogPod
2003 S10 ExCab V6 4.3L Automatic Central Texas |
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Sleepless
Senior Member Joined: 07 Jun 2013 Location: Titusville, FL Online Status: Offline Posts: 556 |
Posted: 15 Jul 2013 at 12:08am |
Cable TV is becoming a standard staple of most privately-owned campgrounds. Simply connect the CG feed to the cable coax input on the trailer, make sure the antenna switch is not lit, and you should pull in all the cable stations on both TVs. As furpod said, you do have to set your TVs to scan for the available stations.
W stayed at about 30 different campgrounds in May and early June. About 90% offered free cable. You have to furnish enough cable to run from their outlet to the pod's input. We carry 50' but usually 25 will suffice. Bob |
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2014 R-Pod 178 (OUR POD)
2009 Chevrolet Avalanche |
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9059 |
Posted: 14 Jul 2013 at 11:39pm |
Good to hear. Unfortunately the switch to digital has a downside - you either get the signal or you don't. No half-way gray area like analog.
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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LindaP
Newbie Joined: 23 Jun 2013 Location: New Richmond OH Online Status: Offline Posts: 12 |
Posted: 14 Jul 2013 at 10:04pm |
Thanks for all the info. Wanted to update that once we got it to a campground and away from our hillsides and woods we picked up over 30 channels!
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Keith-N-Dar
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 03 Apr 2011 Location: Mayville, WI Online Status: Offline Posts: 1447 |
Posted: 27 Jun 2013 at 2:42pm |
Ours works a little better than that, but not great. We didn't get a camper to watch TV in, so for us it is fine.
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Keith-N-Dar
Boris & Betty (Boston Terriers) 2011 R-Pod 177 2010 Ford F-150 |
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kymooses
Senior Member Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Location: Louisville, Ky Online Status: Offline Posts: 1807 |
Posted: 27 Jun 2013 at 9:16am |
If you want anything other than an occasional fuzzy channel, you'd have to get a new antenna. We get great reception when we're camping in a major city or if there is a locally broadcast station near a campground. Otherwise it's fuzz.
At best we put a movie in if we're trapped inside during a downpour and just read anyways.
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P&M
Senior Member Joined: 13 Aug 2012 Location: Spokane, WA Online Status: Offline Posts: 454 |
Posted: 26 Jun 2013 at 3:32pm |
Thinker, did you swap out your tv? The one in our 171 doesn't pick up anything other than an occasional fuzzy channel, and it definitely is not an HDTV.
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P & M ... and Comet too!
2012 171 -- The Monkey Pod 2018 Ram 2500 |
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Thinker
Senior Member Joined: 25 Feb 2013 Location: S. Mississippi Online Status: Offline Posts: 171 |
Posted: 26 Jun 2013 at 1:44pm |
Our 171 has the TV next to the wall cabinet over the sink. If I open the wall cabinet, I see the cable to the TV and I see two connections. I can connect it to Antenna (roof) or CATV Cable (outside connection).
Not sure how your rig is wired. MY HDTV using roof antenna picks up stations 40 miles away. |
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Tow Vehicle: 2013 Pathfinder 4WD R-POD Model 171
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9059 |
Posted: 25 Jun 2013 at 9:09pm |
Welcome. We do have a "instruction manual" thread here, although it is still unfinished.
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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