On my Winnebago the other end of the satellite connection was 'buried' under the roof. Winnebago provided a template that helped you locate the hole you would cut to fish it out when you mounted a roof top sat dish. The first sat system we had was on a Fleetwood Flair. It was an old school manual crank up that was misery to zero in on a sat with. When we got our new Winne, we got a Tailgater that I intended to use as a portable to make it easier to dodge trees. I eventually mounted it permanent on the roof as I found half the time I was having to climb up and put it up there to dodge bushes. As for trees, now I always ask the campground if they have a sat friendly site. They are all hip to that and it gets rid of fiddling with something else (sat dish) when setting up.
