HI iv'e just come back from a weekend away from a site where i did not have a very good reception on my caravan aerial.
So i plugged in my aerial lead to the aerial point on the EHU and external point on caravan and found that this didn't give me a signal aswell.
then i plugged my tv aerial through my window directly to my tv and got a brilliant signal can anybody let me know what i need to do to get a good signal via external aerial point...thanks
It sounds like you have a bad connection or possibly broken wire in your vans ariel system, its a case of checking it out to find the fault, try remaking connections until u find the fault.
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is your van aerial a status, if so, check the bosster is working, Its usually inside the wardrobe, under the aerial, the eternal point will most likly also go though this, if its not working, you will get rubbish recepition, rather than just un-amplified, also as said check your connections, and i would even consider replacing the short "fly lead" you use from the internal aerial point to your TV, the inner core of TV co-ax cable is solid, and can break quite easily if its repeatedly coiled and uncoiled.
we had a problem with ours at the weekend first time away in the van since purchase, could not get the status aerial to work no led light, rang status but they did not help just said post the power pack back to us.
When I tried a jockey wheel mounted ariel there was no signal. Then when I connected it through a window it worked ok. When I checked the lead from the external socket it ran to the wardrobe and ended coiled up not attached to anything. I have since run it around to the internal socket and all works fine now. I had to sort it myself and got no help from the dealer who we bought the van from new - just flannel.
had exactly the same problem today, i assumed that the outside aerial socket may have been at fault as it seemed pretty corroded and rusted, it did still work but not as good, so I still have the aerial lead dangling out of the window... but a great picture!
We had 3 new caravans and 3 mororcaravans and with each we found the fitted tv aerial gave poor reception compared to a cheap multi element antenna mounted outside.
A major factor is they are directional so can be tuned.
We still use a multi element aerial with our fc but have to be more creative in finding a mounting point.
We do not use our internal tv point for the same reason but plug direct from the tv to the aeriel on a bollard point we just use a long coax cable that came from our local caravan shop for about £10. We plug straight from tv through window and into the bollard and have not had a problem.
I had exactly the same problem . In the end I chased the cable back and found under the wardrobe fllor is were they met and guess what. No connection at all. Soon fixed that though.
or maybe the dealer is actually supposed to check things work before they send them out, after all done you pay for a pre-delivery inspection before yuo take delivery???
I had a simular problem, when using the directional ariel via the outside socket and leave the cables running thro the booster it does not work but if i bypass the booster no problem (dealer said i needed a different type of booster which i got and works fine so now have to change the boosters depending on which ariel i am using)
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Topic: External aerial
