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09/8/2020 at 10:18pm
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You may want to buy a coaxial to f connector as it may have an F connection on the bollard, not many do but I have come across the odd one on sites
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10/8/2020 at 8:19am
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The standard cable will be fine but we always carry a selection of connectors as you never know what you might need. Usually CMC sites have a female connector on the bollards so a male on one end of the cable is needed for the bollard end and then it depends on what you plan to do at the other end. If you are putting the cable in through a windows and straight into the TV then the other end should be male as well but on our caravan, we have a connector in the battery box which uses a F connector so we need an adaptor for that.
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10/8/2020 at 1:29pm
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Go get 25m cable from Asda or Tesco. B & M much cheaper make sure connectors are already on the ends as attaching connectors yourself just adds to the poor reception.
We stay alot at the kendal site TV is shocking, as are the bollards for tv reception. they use a std coxial connector, but can be very loose. might need some pliers just to tighten it up and some emery paper just to give it a bit of a clean.
Lovely site though.
Envious asa not made it this year :-(
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10/8/2020 at 8:32pm
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In normal circumstances the wardens tend to sell cables but I doubt they do at the moment. As you are on a serviced pitch 10 metres would probably be long enough but it would be wise to have a 25 metre one for when you are not on a serviced pitch. All the CMC sites I have been on use a co-ax connector. F socket would be much better and the connection points get stretched with use so you don't always get a firm connection.
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08/2/2021 at 5:15pm
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Yep you can get an adapter that is a Female F connector at both ends, if its for satellite I would advise using a Quick F connector for the incoming cable, which will save faffing around with a threaded connector each time you rock up at a campsite.
To be fair unless that cable in the image is designed to pull out and connect directly to the LNB on the dish.
I would change the set up, so that you just have a faceplate mounted Female F connector in the locker instead of that hole with a rubber grommet were the cable is protruding.
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10/2/2021 at 8:51pm
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stopped there a couple of years back...can still remember the banging of the rain drops on the caravan roof - dripping from the trees all night and most of the next day :)
we used a serviced pitch ( no 80 I think ). and it had two aerial connectors on the bollard...one worked and the other didn't ...two hours of trying to find the fault on my tv ..I finally swopped over the connector BINGO !! I think my tv fly lead is about 10 and it was plenty long enough.
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Probably b&q or the likes of screwfix.
That said, the CAMC bollard i last hooked into was no better than my van aerial. The signal drifted with the poor weather.
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