Mark and Dale Bruss

I found this utility that might solve my dilemma for the Resource Guide.  It unloads and active website into a static one.  Before I spend a lot of time cleaning it up, I thought I would put the static clone out there for evaluation.

http://hhrv.hhrvresource.com

Tell me what you think.

The HHRVResource Guide was developed in Drupal 7 CMS system.  Drupal 7 was to go EOL this year but has been extended until end of 2021,  So to keep the HHRVResource Guide going on, a re-creation is needed.

One issue is that because of the lost of Escapees members to Facebook, new information for HHRVResource Guide has not  happened for two years.

What I need is responses to two things.

1. Whether the HHRVResource Guide is still needed.

2. Do you use a smartphone as your only Internet interface.  This relevant to a re-create.  The transition to Drupal 9 (Drupal 8 will end at the end of 2021 also) is not easy.  Many of the contributed modules used in Drupal 7 were not created for Drupal 9.  A rewrite in HTML to work well with smartphone is difficult.

Simple responses to the two questions is requested,

So far no problems with 20H2

I used a Power Tank, a bottle of compressed CO2 with a special regulator.  Easily fills tires to 150 psi.  It is silent so you can check and fill tires without disturbing your neighbors.  Takes less space than an AC electric compressor.  But it is pricey.

For me I opened the hood and stood up on the engine and reached as far as I could up the roof, about 1/3 of the way.  The rest was natures problem.

The Note 9 phones have wireless charging but the tablets and headphones don't.  Magnetic charge cables made a world of difference.  A small adapter plugs into the USB-micro socket.  Then the magnetic end of the cable connects to the adapter.   only have to get the end within an inch and it grabs the adapter.  Nothing to wear and glasses not needed.  Works in the dark since the cable end has a led light.

Would not tow anyother way than four down.

And in Viet Nam I adjusted the fuel controls on Hueys with my ears just a few inches from the turbine bleed  and with air whistling about 600 mph and we had no ear muffs.  So now I have a very narrow band of hearing loss.

So hopefully we are getting smarter.

PC is too slow for that

A little,  We have left the road and built a new house in Texas.  We have 100 mbit fiber internet but still prefer using Dish for most of our TV viewing.  I have used Prime and Netflex to watch some movies but I prefer the common program guide I get with Dish and the whole house DVR Hopper 3.

Maybe some day someone will come up with a common directory for multiple streaming services.

As for cost, since I use Amazon so much, Prime video is free.  Netflix came into the house because the boss wanted to watch the Queen.  If you add up all the services that would replace Dish, the cost wouldn't be that much different.

We never considered any streaming when we were still RVing.  The availability of internet was too questionable to get use to streaming.  Maybe it was the places we stayed.

I have a Super Buddy 29 for sale

Search Google for a mod on the plate with the OTA antenna power switch.  It gives you a jumper to bypass the switch amp for satellite or to use the amp for OTA antenna.

When I first was using Wireless, I had a Pantech Mifi that was several times faster using WiFi-As-WAN as the connection than the USB cable.

Pantech spent a lot of trying to solve that until I quit the Mifi.  I changed over to a wireless modem because the Pantech would burn up its battery when USB connected.

The modem was designed to be on the USB cable and since the modem has a constant source of current, it did not restrain the transmit power like a MiFi does to save battery life.  I had better range to wireless towers because it is your transmit power that determines the range far more than the towers power.

Pay-AS-You-Go accounts were never hardware dependant.  It was a subscription plan that could be stopped as started at and because there was no guarantee of a revenue stream, the equipment needed to be purchased.

The believe that is was hardware dependent came from the external from Dish marketing company was pushing Tailgatter dishes with VIP211 receiver.

In the early days the limitation of one account to an address was true but for many years now Dish has understood that campgrounds will have multiple users.  I can't remember the last time I had to supply a site number.

We used a Pepwave SOHO which was a 2.4/5GHz router with WiFi-as-WAN.  This had everything of ours connecting to the Router.  The router would connect to park WiFi via WiFi-as-WAN, or through a Ubiquity Bullet for more WiFi range, or though our Version Wireless Modem with a roof antenna.  The only thing we had to do was set the connect for the router.  All our devices works because the router was common.

We focused on park WiFi when we could.

A red X Is not going to make it.

Since the Upper Peninsula is so far north, it  becomes difficult to get the Elevation low enough. Depending on your mount, the dish sometimes hits the mount.  When I was in the UP, I was always using the EA which has higher Elevations.  When I was in Prince Edward  Island and had to use the WA, I had to put the tripod on a picnic table and had to tip the tripod down in front to get the Elevation to where I could get 129 in.

A visual tool is not going to help that much as you are getting close to the satelites.  Visual tools when the problem is trees or other obstructions. 

Remember the dish arm does not point at the satelites.  The signal beam path is 15 degrees of the dish surface and rotated to the right depending on the Skew.  You might recheck the possibility of the EA.

I now have a fiber connection 100 Mbs and could stream like crazy but still use Dish for most of our TV activity because the enhanced program guide and other features.  Streaming looks interesting but by the time you get all the channels that I use with Dish, my subscription bill would be almost as high.  It would be nice if there was a common program guide for all the streaming services.  It is a matter of choices and a solution for one is not the solution for another.

When we had our trailer built, we added coax feeds for a ground tripod dish.  We still had that option when we got the Trav'ler roof dish.  When we were in winter residence in Texas we use a dish mounted on the Coach House feeding into the trailer because a tree blocked the Trav'ler  on our lot.  When we bought the motorhome, I added an external coax input for the ground tripod dish because we still used it a couple of times a year.

You are pretty far north for 129.  I never worried about how much signal strength I had, only if I received all three satellites.  I found that satellite reception is more on-off than a quality of signal issue.

Signal strength does not determine if Locals are in HD, the Arc does.  Quite a few of the DMA have one Arc in SD and the other in HD.

So if you want the locals in HD, then it will be getting the EA somehow.  As for NBCSN, Fox Sports, HgTv, etc they are usually on 129.

Baltimore in 2006

When we moved to South Dakota, we had our vehicles transferred to SD plates before we left Maryland using the mail service we were going to use.

When we arrived in SD, we got the certificate of overnight stay and got our driver's licenses.

Then later we had new wills made to follow SD laws and stayed with our credit union in Detroit. 

Well my main PC did the Windows 10 version 2004 on it's own and I downloaded the image to update the other PCs.

Two more done, 1 to go.

The loss of so many users to Facebook is why the KKRV Resource Guide slowed down to no new articles because there was nothing to add from the Forum.  Maybe if enough return and project threads start up again, maybe new articles can be created.

When Mama said "I been thinking" and 13 years came to an end.

The panels we had on the Travel Supreme were attached to the fiberglass roof with z-brackets with VHB tape.  The panels were still attached after 13 years