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I recently spent a day setting up our new-to-us coach for our portable dish and some of what I learned may help.
First "Sat ready" does mean there is cable on the roof to the AV compartment to install sat dish on the roof. That is of no use in setting up the portable dish.
Next, there is a Quest Video Control Center QS53D in this 2013 Palazzo. I got some help from the Quest folks but they admittedly don't know how the RV manufacturer sets up each coach. You may not have the same model but their may be some common info in setting up. I will see if I can pass the info on CLEARLY! But if not let me know and I will try to clarify.
On the AV controller ignore any think marked sat TV! It refers to permanently installed roof mounted sat dish and is connected to the roof cables not ones you will need to use for your portable dish.
I connected my cable from the dish to the external connection point (in the sanitary compartment in this coach). From that point a GRAY coax cable runs to the AV compartment and I hook that up to my input on the back of my sat receiver. (There is also an ORANGE coax cable in the AV compartment and I read somewhere that in Thor RV's ORANGE coax means sat TV. It took me awhile to quit trying to make it work before I learned what I said above "ignore any sat marked cables as they apply to permanent roof mounts".
So I had a signal now and could run a cable directly from the sat receiver to a TV and it worked. But, obviously tripping over the cable, etc was a problem since the AV comp and RV were on opposite sides and ends of the living area and we had two more TV;s!!! And the owners manual says I can watch TV on any of the 3 TV's!
So here is where it all came together and another poster noted this also. I removed the DVD player as we never use it and It was connected with the red, white and yellow AV cables to th QS53D. I left those cables connected to the QS53D but plugged the other end into the corresponding plugs on back of the sat receiver and vola' I had sat TV on any TV AS LONG AS the TV is set on channel 4-0, the QSD53D is on and the button for Channel 4 is pressed and DVD is selected on the QS53D for the TV(s) you want to watch! All TV's can only watch the same channel on sat TV. While watching sat TV on one TV you can watch OTA by selecting "antenna" for that TV on the QS53D and going to whatever channel you want to watch.

I hope this helps and if there are any questions I can clarify let me know. I will try. I have had a controller/distributor in previous TV's but not one that seems as limited as this one.

One question I have not resolved and will probably contact Thor soon if I do not find an answer here or elsewhere is about the HDMI cable that terminates in the AV compartment. It is not hooked up in the AV compartment, just "hanging out" there! I know the main and bedroom TVs do NOT have a HDMI cable hooked up or available in the wire bundle terminating there. I have not checked the exterior TV because i have not figured out how to dismount it (not on my priority list for now)! So what function is that HDMI cable supposed to serve! Anybody have any ideas?