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LarryN

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  • Birthday 06/10/1947

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    Springfield, MO
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    taking the RV to a new adventure, sailing, amateur radio, flying my Twin Comanche or Cessna 195, hugging my little female Lab, Maddy.

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  1. I will give that a try. The only "stock" antenna I have is another yagi, or possibly the flat plate window mount, but I think that comes with two leads.......
  2. Dutch, I am going to try my single yagi with a Y adapter (somehow I ended up with one of those).....If I buy another Wilson yagi, that matches my current one I am using two coax feeds.
  3. Kirk, paired yagi's are commercially available. There are dual yagi's available on Amazon. I have stacked yagi's in my ham radio arsenal. I have two yagi's and have never them on my collapsible pole because they are physically different, even though they are electronically identical. But since they will join up at the 8800 I just never experimented with them. Just never saw any improvement in pairing any omni directional but I am willing to learn. 🙂. Some of the boondocking YOUtubers use a paired yagi setup. I will try to find some examples. I do like this thread and will try to follow it. I also understand the phasing of two radiating elements in the transmission mode. In our remote search for signal, it is the receiving mode that is the most troublesome....(for me).
  4. I am not questioning the success with a pair of omni directional antennas as suggested above. I am just curious how they work together? I have a pair of yagi (directional) that I am anxious to try. I would guess there would be no aiming of the pair of omni directionals???? thanks
  5. I finally reached a (very nice) human at Verizon. I don't spend a lot of time on "My Verizon" account information, but the expiration is the date of my payment, she said. It has probably been saying that for many months. Glenn, "expire" is their terminology, not mine. My plan details say "plan expires 1-11-22". She said it "expires" every month on the 11th.... Keeping this plan. Thanks.
  6. My unlimited VErizon plan expires on Jan 11. "Unlimited" data at $65 per month prepaid. I am getting set to retire (about time, I am 74). Looking at some of the Verizon plans. Very happy with my 8800. So...when I go to Verizon's website and my account details, they have Unlimited, 5GB, 25GB, 100GB and 150GB. My history with my Jetpack has never approached a slower speed threshold. We don't stream. Verizon's explanation of the 5 plans includes the speed penalties for exceeding the "high speed data allowance" which seems to exist only for the 5,25, 100, and 150 GB plans, but NOT for the "unlimited" plan. I am asking why not stick with an "unlimited" plan at about $60? Now reading this thread I see other plans from Verizon. I come from an era of party line phones, so I am easy to please. But still also easily confused.
  7. It has been a while for me on this subject but wanted to share that my conversion of a highway bus to RV about 12 years ago, included a variable flow paired with an accumulator tank. I had an accumulator tank and a standard water pump in our houseboat, and it was great. However, after burning out two pumps in the bus conversion, I called the manufacturer. They pointed out that in the installation literature, it warned that variable speed pumps are not meant to be hooked with an accumulator tank. Replaced with a standard pump and all was well. As I recall the variable speed pumps sense the back pressure of the accumulator and the result is bad. Too long ago to quantify what "bad" was. Your result may vary.
  8. My admission was NOT "bogosity", but it was "snidery", possibly mixed in with "ramscallionry"...
  9. Kirk, that was my bit of anarchist snidery. Actually it was the Tri Lateral Commision 😜 that determined those definitions around the time they flouridated water and caused my hair to fall out (except for around the ears and nostrils).
  10. I am not going to torture myself to go back and look at that movie, but would like to comment on the picture you posted. I am not completely sure but it looks more like an older "chassis mount" rig. Yes, before the US Congress came up with "Class A, Class B, etc", we had "trailers" and "pickup campers" and the "chassis mounts" came along after the slide ins, from my hazy memory. Yes, I assume, today it would be branded as a "vintage Class C". My folks had two chassis mounts after having two slide in pick up campers. Their first one was a "Dreamer" the second was a "Red Dale". Then they got into the Class C's, a descriptive that came about in the nick of time. They started with a Tioga, then a Dutchman. Now, back to the discussion of the merits of Nomadland.
  11. Blues, there are "salesmen" everywhere, including the annual "poverty palooza" in quartzite each year. I think Jim Jones was a salesman, was he not? I agree with your point but be careful who you select as your "salesman".
  12. Thank you for your concern. Lots of windows, and sometimes in my travels I can see for 60 miles. I am sure you must have a point buried somewhere. Go for it.
  13. Blues, yes....I was very fortunate.......to own a mirror. I have always appreciated RV's Confucius quote which I have inserted here: "When you see a worthy man, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy man, look inside yourself. - Confucius"
  14. There are a lot, I repeat, LOT of new folks out there who are giving the life a try. I doubt they are all homeless. I am sure they cause a lot of the problems, though.
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