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Originally Posted by GMac

Looking for same info myself.
The way I understand the cable routing and possible connections...
If you connect a satellite antenna to outside receptacle, you still need to connect to a receiver. If you un-mount the signal boost switch you will see 3 cables (roof antenna/tan, ext cable/white and distribution out/black). If you disconnect external source/white, run to receiver then back to previous connection, that may give you satelitte to all three tvs but same channel. Other option would be to use HDMI in cabinet from receiver but mine only feeds dinette tv. Bedroom and outside tv do not share that HDMI. I plan to add/store seperate HDMI cable to outside tv so I can move receiver outside for "tailgating" days.

I was successful today! I installed my DISH VIP211Z and Tailgater antenna to my 29.3.

As mentioned above, I disconnected the WHITE EXT/Park cable input from ANT Booster switch and connected to a wall mount dual coax plate. I then ran coax to sat receiver. My VIP211Z has no coax return, only AVI or HDMI. I connected the HDMI from cabinet to receiver and that does feed only dinette tv. I also connected AVI cables to a RF Converter and connected that output back to the coax wall plate. The backside was then reconnected to the original PARK input on the ANT Booster switch.

To view:
Dinette only...select tv source to HDMI = DISH.
All 3 TVs...Select TV as source, ANT booster on = roof ant.
...............Booster OFF, tune tv to Ch3/4 to view DISH.