Does anyone know what this connection is?

[RussL]

The bottom is a capped Cable connection, but I don't know what the top one is. It has a single orange wire coming out the back?

[Midnightsun]

The top one is for land line telephone, about as useful as 8 track tapes today. the one with the white cap on it is for cable TV when offered at the docks, this is sometimes still available but again rather rare.

[RussL]

Thanks, that is what I thought it was but I had never seen a connector like that. What you are telling me is it can come out

[Midnightsun]

I used the same location to install an auto water tank fill switch when connected to shore water. A little elaborate but works really well. Here is a link. viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3143&hilit=timer

[bud37]

I still have a brand new shiny yellow cable that came with the boat to fit that telephone plug, I keep carting it around hoping to find some use for it some day.......

[Midnightsun]

Maybe the Smithsonian? Could be worth something in a couple hundred years.

[tomschauer]

What, you guys don't use the land lines when your at the marina?
I remember back in the 80's and 90's that was a selling point for the marina to have land lines available at each slip. Well before cable tv was available at the slip.

[Viper]

Some guys still use the TV coax connection when they install satellite TV at their dock.

[g36]

I use my noat cable inlet for my dish network feed from my sat dishes mounted at my slip. The receiver requires a straight run to the dish so just removed the splitters and reconfigured it a bit. Works great and made a easy solution for tv. I also have a new telephone cable in a bag too. Funny to think how stuff changes so quickly.