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The antenna is on the center line about 38" behind the Air Conditioner shroud. I used the roof mount kit for the Wingard X1. The whole installation of the mount and exposed screws were covered with Dicor Self Leveling Sealant. The two output cables are positioned toward the rear and are routed on top of the roof toward the Refrigerator roof vent. They too were covered with the Dicor sealant.

I then drilled a hole to pass the cables through to the rear of the storage cabinet over the refrigerator. The kit comes with a plastic cable cover which is then screwed to the roof. This then was filled with more Dicor. All this thus far was the easy part.

One cable needed to be routed forward to the kitchen cabinet next to the microwave where the receiver was to be located, actually on top of the dvd player. The challenge is that this is the entire kitchen/dinette slide and it has water lines, propane lines, various electrical lines both 12v and 120.

I drilled another hole in the rear inside corner of the refer cabinet and passed both cables through. The heater grill was removed and the two cables retrieved. The cable going forward in the slide was passed through an existing hole at the base of the refer cabinet. If you look behind your slide by the oven at the floor, you will see a piece of long folded over black plastic. That acts as an arm to hold cables and propane lined which are wire tied to it, out of the way while the slide operated. I tied the sat cable to the same are with wire ties.

Remove your microwave and set it aside. You will see a cable channel inside of the microwave cabinet and that channel exits at the base of the cabinet under the oven. Other wires are already in that channel. This is where it gets to be fun. I used 10' of bead chain and dropped it from the top inside the microwave cabinet channel. It will find it's way to the bottom. It may take a few tries. When you get hold of the bead chain, attach some masons twine to the chain and pull back up to the top. On the other end tie it to the cable and electrical tape it good. Then pull the cable up into the microwave cabinet. Depending on how sloppy the workman who ran the electrical wires across the bottom of the cabinet and through a hole which they grommetted at the rear of the cabinet, you should be able to slip the cable through to where the receiver will be mounted, of not drill another hole or enlarge the existing. You are done with the front cable, reinstall the micro and bottom drawer.

Beer break. Depending upon how much blood you lost doing this, the rear cable is really simple.

Open the outside kitchen. remove the drawer and the sink drawer. Back inside at the heater grill, run your cable over to a large opening under the raised floor of the bed through which other cables are routed. You'll see it, it is on the step up beside the heated cabinet. Go outside and look through the drawer in the outside kitchen. You should be able to see the cable. Fashion a hook in a coat hanger or better yet if you have a fish tape, reach back in there and pull the cable to you. The rest is easy just drilling through the rear left corner of the counter top, you won't notice it, then into the bedroom drawer cabinet. Run it up the inside of the cabinet through the bottom of the shelf to the rear receiver and you are done.