I have a few questions about re-doing some things in my parents 1980's
Wenebego RV.....

I would like to make it satelite ready & someone said I needed to put
in a diferent grade of coax... is thee a easy way to rplace the cable
withour tearing apart the walls. There are 2 wall jacks. It has an
antenna on the roof.

How could I have it work on the antenna or the satelite? Is this a huge
project?

Also... I am replacing the old cassette/am/fm radio with a cd/mp3
reciver... do I need any special brackets... how hard would it be to
put speaker in the back & wire them to the new reciever?

Thanks in advance for any help here!

For the stereo, try buying from Crutchfield. They usually have adapters
to fit your new stereo and speakers into any vehicle.
For the coax - it all depends on where the wires run and how hard it
will be to remove the old and install the new wire.

wrote:
I have a few questions about re-doing some things in my parents 1980's
Wenebego RV.....

I would like to make it satelite ready & someone said I needed to put
in a diferent grade of coax... is thee a easy way to rplace the cable
withour tearing apart the walls. There are 2 wall jacks. It has an
antenna on the roof.

How could I have it work on the antenna or the satelite? Is this a huge
project?

Also... I am replacing the old cassette/am/fm radio with a cd/mp3
reciver... do I need any special brackets... how hard would it be to
put speaker in the back & wire them to the new reciever?

Thanks in advance for any help here!

wrote:
I would like to make it satelite ready & someone said I needed to put
in a diferent grade of coax... is thee a easy way to rplace the cable
withour tearing apart the walls. There are 2 wall jacks. It has an
antenna on the roof.

I'd leave the existing antenna and coax for use with local reception,
and add the satellite receiver and antenna with a separate cable.
Should be easier than removing the old cable and you'll get additional
functionality.

With such a short length of existing (lower grade) coax, the losses may
be acceptable to a satellite system. However, switching between a
Yagi-type antenna and the dish on the roof is more complicated than
switching inside the RV, therefore I would also recommend running a
separate coax cable to the roof for the dish.

Two separate feeds from the roof; a satellite receiver box; then use a
simple A-B RF switch with 'F' connectors at the input to the TV to
select between the satellite receiver and the Yagi-type TV antenna.

tlbs wrote:
Two separate feeds from the roof; a satellite receiver box; then use a
simple A-B RF switch with 'F' connectors at the input to the TV to
select between the satellite receiver and the Yagi-type TV antenna.

I think most satellite receivers today have a separate antenna input for
OTA reception.

wrote:
I would like to make it satelite ready & someone said I needed to put
in a diferent grade of coax... is thee a easy way to rplace the cable
withour tearing apart the walls. There are 2 wall jacks. It has an
antenna on the roof.

When you say there is an antenna on the roof, I presume you mean that
there is one of the old Winegard-type crank-up over-the-air VHF/UHF TV
antennas. You want to add a dish somewhere. If this is correct, the
next question is, where do you plan to put the satellite dish? Many
people have good luck using a portable ground-mount dish. Small, light,
easy to set up on a small tripod, easy to adjust the aiming. And you
can run the wire wherever it is convenient. Dish Network and (what's
the other one?) both offer easy setup ground mounts.

A hard-mounted roof dish is a PITA to add to an existing vehicle.

Bill