LarryN

On 3/16/2022 at 9:26 AM, Lou Schneider said:

You're defeating the purpose of the MIMO inputs by connecting both to a single antenna,  Radio signals vary in strength over their wavelength from nothing to maximum - remember how you had to adjust an old TV rabbit ear antenna for the best reception?  Moving the elements just a few inches often made the difference between a good picture or nothing.

MIMO antennas work in much the same way - when one antenna is in a null, chances are the other is getting a good signal.  Cellular signals have a shorter wavelength than the old analog TV signals so even an inch or two between the two antennas can make a huge difference in the signal strength each receives.  You'd be better off connecting the yagi to a single input and putting any antenna, even the stock one, on the other input.

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.......

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. 

1 hour ago, Kirk W said:

Using a pair of antennas makes them directional, based on a perpendicular line between the two antennas. That used to be very common for users of mobile CB antennas as it would push nearly all of the transmission power into the direction of travel. I have not heard of anyone pairing Yagi antennas.

The Complete Cellular Antenna Guide

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).

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

On 1/4/2022 at 5:37 PM, GlennWest said:

Mine is on auto pay. 

as is mine.....😀

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.

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.

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 hours ago, Blues said:

Thank you for asking the question.  Of course plenty of people don't bother reading an entire thread so they won't see the admission of bogosity, but as they say, if it keeps just one person from believing a falsehood, you've made a contribution.

My admission was NOT "bogosity", but it was "snidery", possibly mixed in with "ramscallionry"...

4 hours ago, Kirk W said:

I have long wondered when and where the terms class A, Class B, and Class C began and who invented them? I have suspected that the terms came from inside of the RV manufacturing industry, but have been completely unable to find anything to confirm that belief, nor can I find any other explanation. I did find two histories, A Brief History of the RV, from Smithsonian Magazine and The History of Campers, from Volo Auto Museum, but neither of them address how or when those terms came into use. Would you mind sharing with us what government agency created those terms, when it was, and any other documentation that you may have? It is a question that I have heard discussed many times but this is the first time I have heard the source of the terms.

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).

On 8/13/2021 at 7:05 PM, etcetera said:

what was that C-class in the film? (I had to resize it for forum to process it thus resolution is grainy)

 

at 23:47

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. 

On 7/11/2021 at 6:20 PM, Blues said:

The problem these days, which was not the case in the past, is that there are a lot of people who make their living telling and convincing people that they can hit the road on very little money.  They are salesmen, but people don't treat their information with the caution that salesmen's statements should be treated.

In a battle between a moral stance and a sales pitch, the sales pitch is gonna win.

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". 

2 hours ago, Blues said:

I'm thinking you might benefit from a window.

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.

9 hours ago, Blues said:

Then you are very fortunate. 

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"

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. 

1 hour ago, Zulu said:

TMI

Then kindly take a mint and head for the door......

8 hours ago, sandsys said:

This irritated me. I know people who give away sandwiches to the hungry. And who volunteer at soup kitchens. And who support Feed My Starving Children. And make donations to food shelves. The ones I know, including me, don't play tambourines or act like you suggested. I'm glad you don't support activities like these because your method does not show respect to the recipients who are, after all, still human beings.

Linda

Linda, of course you do not know me at all, certainly not to the extent to claim who I "respect". You don't know what I do to help others.  I have served food at "soup kitchens". But I do not need to publish on a forum all my good works as you have done.  I have also "been there", living my early adult years as a slacker whose only impediment to success (or just feeding my family) was staring at me in the mirror. I have had my name on the cash register....should you know what that means. I have heard the oil furnace growl in the middle of the night when it sucked in the last drop of fuel oil, with two youngsters in the next room. You don't know me.

We all have a duty to find the means to sustain ourselves and sustain those we chose to bring into  the world. An able bodied man or woman should not be standing on the street corner holding a sign "Hungry, God Bless" when there is a sign on the building 100 feet from them that says, "hiring, all shifts, sign on bonus". 

Thank you so much for feeding the starving children. They are the victims of their parents who should be horsewhipped. 

3 hours ago, etcetera said:

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At times it was very depressing, like getting trapped in that Amazon factory and other semi min wage jobs.

 

 

Well, I believe I saw ways out of that Amazon facility. There were lighted signs that said "EXIT".  Do they lock the slave labor inside? That is just plain wrong. There ARE building codes after all. 

Movie was depressing, only bright spot was Frances and her almost relationship. Reminded me of The Road (people eating people)....dark...dismal....and most of all contrived. When she gave that sandwich to that young man I almost started to sing "kum baya, my lord.....kum baya" and dance in a circle with my tamborine.

On 5/4/2021 at 4:43 PM, Solo18 said:

Depends on what you mean by "forced." 

I am guessing drug out of your house or car, maybe at gunpoint,  and put to work on some sort of assembly line job.  Amazon should be ashamed to be offering jobs to people. Tesla, too....my worldly 15 year old grand daughter "educated" me about the slaves that are engaged at putting electric cars together.  Her nonsense reminded me of.......me....back when I was in my twenties and knew everything.

Thanks, Kirk, for your comment. I was about to make a similar one. We ALL have choices. We all know that we live, get old, and then die. It is our job to not be a burden, in any way, on our fellow man along the way. Don't make enough money? Then make more. 

Dutch what is that?

When you pull the plug, send a sample to Blackstone Labs (or an oil analysis lab of your choice). It is nice to show a potential buyer that you kept a record of engine wear via the analysis. My 77 GMC MH has 120k on it and I keep an eye on wear and hopefully.....future problems, using oil analysis. Do NOT use the USPS to send an oil sample. Not reliable in any way. Use UPS. The lab will get the sample then.

Does the M2000 have external antenna ports? Could it be used with a signal booster? Thanks

22 hours ago, TXiceman said:

Any ham radio operators near you?

Ken

As a ham radio operator myself, I think I would have picked up on device as a ham antenna but I do find myself falling behind the power curve with new antennae on the market. It looked to be directional. Don't think it was a water level device as it was not in the water. It had coax going into a trailer but nobody was home. 

We could get no cell signal at this lake with ATT or Verizon. My apps had the towers east and south of this location. This thing was pointed north west, btw. Maybe Sprint/T Mobile.

The mystery continues. Thanks for the replies.

It is some sort of cell range extender? It was on the shoreline of my favorite spot on earth, Merritt Reservoir in the Sandhills of Nebraska. Dying to find out, does not look like anything I have seen. It was on a "painters pole" up about 6'. If it was a cellular antenna, it was pointed in a weird direction at least for Verizon and ATT. I map out the towers when I am out in the sticks. I did not check T Mobile which I am increasing interested in trying. Thanks in advance.

I don't have time to go after all this stuff. I am too busy making gasoline out of water with the gizmo I bought from the ad in Popular Mechanics.....next to the "make big money........" ad.