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Mike, take a look at EddyB's post at the top of the page, posted August 27th....maybe your drier is kaput too?

That's so they can replenish the earth with oil everywhere they go!

Hi Greg & Maria, welcome! I’ve been RV’ing since ‘02, with my wife since ‘06. Our toad is a 2008 Jeep JKU and it’s great as both my DD & toad. While our ‘05 LaPalma 37PST is a on a Workhorse chassis & has a gas engine, it still shares similarities to the DPs, so you might see me chime in with an answer or two from time to time. There are a ton of knowledgeable folks on the site; without them, I’d have been lost in the sauce with wiring. Don’t be afraid to ask questions, these guys are veritable pros.

Bob, if you keep an eye out in your snail mail for offers from Sirius/XM, you'll see that they sometimes offer really great deals....I got five years locked in at $5/mo. for our toad Jeep Wrangler JKU. BTW, I feel for you on trading in a beloved vehicle and getting something of less power/value than what you had. They just don't build em like they used to.

I just realized mine can't, because all of the RG6 coax cables come in to the cabinet above the passenger side.

Forgot to add a pic of the final install. BTW, does anyone know what the spiral antenna, just in front of the Dish antenna, goes to? It reminds me of my Dad's Crown Vic car phone antenna from the 80's. And, yeah I know, the front cap needs clear coat....it's on my list.

Ours was originally the RCA RTD-250, but it is no longer made. I ended up buying a newer RCA that had the same rear panel, connected the wires and everything works great. Steven, does your switch box normally sit on your RCA receiver, on the driver's side? The reason I ask is because I'm trying to put everything back to the way it was and unscrew everything the P.O. screwed up.

Well I decided to leave sleeping dogs lie and abandoned my efforts to locate the roof access point for the DSS coax cable. I was able to fit my hand through a hole in the pass. side cabinet, where I can see the wire, and trace it to just above an unseen piece of wood inside the cabinetry. I can get enough of it to cut it and splice on a new connector and then attach it to the wire that is on the roof and attached to the Dish antenna. That way I'll have an install that looks clean and factory. Also, I installed our Winegard WF2-435 WiFi booster and it works like a charm. So all's well that ends well, and best of all Momma is happy, which means I'm happy.

Well I definitely went 24" back, when I removed the seam tape. Curiosity is killing me, I really want to go back up there and take the last few inches from the front of the A/C, but I've already reassembled everything, and I really don't want the demoralizing result of not finding a thing, the first time around sucked enough. I suppose I could poke around with a metal pick, or maybe look up in the A/C from inside and see if I can see anything....

Interesting, ours is two-piece aluminum. I wonder why Monaco changed to fiberglass?

You know what? I stopped short of that location, literally by about two or three inches 😂😂😂 Martin, unless I’m blind, you don’t have a two-piece aluminum roof?

Thanks, Martin. I wish my phone hadn’t been charging, so you could see how much seam tape I tore up.

Yeah, there was just nothing there. I made sure to go all the way to the A/C. My guess is that someone forgot to drill the hole and it was close to quitting time.

Well I tore the seam tape latitudinally across the cap and longitudinally to the A/C and found no hole, nada, zip. So I reinstalled new seam tape and reapplied Dicor to everything and resigned myself to living with a wire I can partially see from the inside, knowing I’ll never be able to use it. The Dish antenna works, and I have to keep telling myself that sometimes you just have to leave well enough alone. Unless I snip the original wire and crimp a new RG-6/U fitting to it and attach that to the wire that’s attached to the Dish antenna….. Yeah, I know, I have issues.

Then my butt needs to climb the ladder, yet again, and find out. If I don't, it's going to drive me nuts. Thanks for the help, guys.

Tom, was this hole on the latitudinal seam at the cap or the longitudinal seam running down the middle from the cap? There is a strip of Eternabond over the original aluminum tar tape Monaco used to seal the two-piece aluminum roof, and I wonder if it's hiding there. If that's the case, then I need to remove the Dish King TailGater I just installed, which is no big deal.

Hi everyone and Happy Independence Day! I've been working on cleaning up the wiring on our LaPalma, removing P.O. installed cables and tracing original wiring, putting it back to wiring diagram specs. In the cabinet above the driver's side is a panel labeled "Satellite Receiver Connection", with three coax connections for "Ext Input" (exterior tripod satellite), "Roof Input" (factory roof wire) & "To Video Switch" (for the switch box in the cabinet on the pass. side). I removed the panel and visually traced the "Roof Input" wire over to the passenger side, but that's as far as I can go. The owner's manual says that the roof wire is located on the roof, marked under a sat backer.....I can not find this location. Does anyone know where it's at? Whoever installed the MotoSat system for the original owner apparently never bothered to locate the original wire and just drilled into the roof and ran new wires. I like things nice and clean....OCD is a real pain sometimes...

I think I have some Tef-Gel on a shelf somewhere, for my boat...it does a good job of preventing dissimilar metal reaction.

Ours is aluminum, which is why I asked about the type of fastener. I don’t want to end up with galvanic corrosion.

This is your old antenna, Scotty, just now getting around to installing it.

Southwest Idaho too, and they’re building more every day.

This is what mine looks like.

“Look kids, Big Ben, Parliament.”

What type and size of screw am I supposed to use, in order to mount the Dish King Tailgater to the roof, and what sealant should I use?

Not to get off topic, but it’s the nitnoy items that are nickel and dining me…redoing the carpet and hard flooring, fixing the sunk-in Corian stovetop, tires, shocks, trac bar, steering stabilizer, fluids & filters, new steps (that one was all me), exhaust from the cat back, and now exhaust gaskets. Thankfully I’m handy with a wrench, but my back and knees aren’t what they were 30 years ago. Many of these issues are fixing P.O. neglect, and I’m hoping I’m at the end of that road.