| I would strongly suggest you not attempt to install a satellite antenna on the roof. If you are ever parked under trees you will not have a signal. You will want your roof antenna for local stations if you are ever more than 100 miles from home. Satellite local signals are beamed down and only cover a small area. The wiring down from the roof antenna goes into a amplifier that you would have to remove if you intend to use that wire.
Now that said consider a free standing satellite antenna with say 50 ft. of cable so you can locate the antenna out from under trees in most cases. I have a total of 100 ft. for such use. To use an external antenna you will have to install a new connection on the outside of the trailer. Mine comes in under the TV table and up through the cabinet to a plate on the table top.
The attached pictures show the outside connection and the interior cabling to allow me to use the roof antenna for local channels, the satellite box for the satellite channels, and a converter box to receive local digital signals.
The A/B box is necessary in my case because I have both systems set up at the same time and some local signals sometime override to tuner in the TV and display while I want to watch a satellite channel.
If you have questions you can respond here or send me a PM.
Last edited by silverleeper; 11-05-2009 at 05:49 PM.
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