We recently purchased this Bounder. We no longer full time but still travel frequently. The entertainment center/cabinet is in the back of the coach in the bedroom. It contains the Sat TV receivers and DVD player and the door is a wooden frame holding the flatscreen TV for the bedroom.
W e have DirTV and I have an IR remote for the receivers. However, sitting in the front of the coach watching Sat TV the receivers do not respond, I have to get up and go to the back and open the cabinet/TV frame to get the receiver to respond. If I leave the cabinet door open that does not help, there are 3 walls (one being a shower enclosure) between the front and the back cabinet! It is especially annoying because we seldom watch TV real time, normally only recorded so we can skip the commercials. The exercise of getting up and probably does me good, but I get enough in other ways.
I am not very familiar with the Fleetwood line so I am wondering is this rear located entertain compartment a common configuration and how do others deal with this if so? I believe the electro magnetic radiation from the flat screen TV is blocking the IR signal from the receivers that are a few inches from the back of the TV.
A previous coach we had, had some IR receivers positioned around the coach and the signal was transmitted from these button sized receivers to the sat receivers which were otherwise inconveniently located. I have not seen that system except in that coach line. Are there any Fleetwood coaches that use a system similar?
Sorry this got so long, I appreciate any feed back you can provide.