Mark and Dale Bruss

We went to the Census office to fill out the forms. The first office wasn't prepared. The second one was. It was obvious they were not used to people coming in to fill out the forms. Filled them out we did because we did not want to be counted in New Mexico but where our virtual address was in South Dakota.

Started on a IBM 1620 also at Marquette University in 1962. B300 machine code and Basic Assembler on B3500 systems. I may switch full time to Edge from Vivaldi because I have a script function that doesn't work with Vivaldi and does with Edge.

Only back to the A Series? I started with B300/B5500's. The previous versions of Edge were severely limiting. I have been using Vivadi, a Chrome based browser for several reasons. At least with this Chrome based Edge, I can add some extensions I rely on for those applications that will only use Edge for display purposes.

Downloaded and installed yesterday. It works fine but it is not obvious that you can load Extensions from the Chrome Store as well as the Microsoft Store. And of course they make it hard to find where to change the Search engine from Bing.

Don't be a PowerPoint user and expect the "free" suites to do anything like it.

I have been using Vivaldi which is a Chrome base browser for quite a while. It as some extra features I like and unlike the old Edge, can use Chrome add-ins.

Just did the Win 7 to Win 10 upgrade without a license number on two PCs. The steps listed are correct

10 years. That is longer than sack analog phones were supported. As for needing a new PC, my current laptop started with Vista and is now on Windows 10 (1909). And I got the new versions of Windows free by doing the upgrades when the offers were made. If you are still on Win 7, your problem. But you still can get to Win 10 if you want too for free.

In general the German's heavily enforce protocol. At intersection with yield signs, the other direction has signs that indicate that you have the priority. If you stop when you have the right-away, you can get a ticket for delay of traffic. The left lane rule was significant. I have seen Mercedes going 130 mph pull over because a Ferrari was coming thru at 150 mph. The German police use Porsche for enforcement so they can catch you. Swerving over the centerline on curve can get you time in the German jail for endangering someone coming the other way. German police seldom assign 100% fault in an accident. Even if rear ended, why were you in the way of the car hitting you? Like a person pulling out from an arterial stop and not accelerating to the going speed. The ultimate was in the 70's when everyone was issuing lowered speed limits, the German actually posted speed limit signs. The Germans exactly followed the speed limits unlike out 5-10 over attitude. At the next election, they fired everyone who had a part in posting the speed limits.

You always had to have Internet to use the voice control, even before the Alexi integration.

I forgot to bring my meter to the Rally for sale. The Applied Instruments Super Buddy 29 is a meter that identifies the satellite it finds and only reports signal on the satellite you are looking for. The entire North American Zip Code (US) and Postal Code (Canada) data base is built in and easily updated every so often on line. The Super Buddy 29 is a need when you want to aim a Dish TV Hopper 3. On the Super Buddy will deal with Hybrid LNBF heads. Once you lock onto the primary satellite, then you check the other (EA) or other two (WA) satellites. With the Super Buddy 29, aiming the satellite is a couple of minutes proposition once the dish is erected. The Hopper 3 is not suited to aiming by ear because it pretty much needs to be on target to get through a Switch Check before you can view any transceiver strength. The Hopper 3 adds so much to an RVer as it enables to watch anything asynchronously from actual viewing time and all the recordings and channels are available to any Joey for the bedroom and other TVs. I put this up for offer to HDTers only. The current Applied Instruments new is over $900 (X-3 and addition required module). Usually any Super Buddy 29 on eBay has a bad battery if less than $350. My Super Buddy 29 had a new battery installed last year as well as a new faceplate. For an HDTer, $300.

I thought my display on my Gen I went bad, I searched for a replacement display, when I found one, I went to install it, it did not fit. But what I found that there are two dash lamps that backlight the display and thy are not very obvious. And both were burnt out. Put new bulbs in and I had my display back and it was much easier to read, Apparently one lamp had been burnt out for a long time and the second lamp just went out.

You could put the SOLO on the roof next to the Trav'ler, easy to run the three coax cables. Assuming one cable to the VIP722 and one to the Wally, use the same cables attached to the SOLO and the Hopper 3 and the Jey. One question I haven't heard yet does the Hopper Duo use a Hybrid LNBF or a DPP LNBF?

We just got our Texas drivers licenses. We had Real ID South Dakota licenses to turn in. We needed passports, SS Cards, birth certificates, and two proofs of residence. So in Texas, even if you already passed Read ID in another state, you will have to go through it. And having a Texas license for years will not exclude you from going thru Real ID. I think in two years, a non Read ID license will no longer count for proof of citizenship, like boarding an airplane. That will leave a couple of states, Minnesota for one, residents with having to have a passport and carrying it for flying.

At this moment Dish is overloaded because of the Fox Sports /Dish battle.

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One of our RVWaterFilterStore hose is 13 years old and it still in fine shape. The cost is well less than the cumulative cost of cheap hoses. By using 200 psi hoses allowed us to locate the pressure regulator in the RV rather that at the hose bib. Our first hose, a standard type, was almost 2" in diameter when attached to a parl with 100 psi water pressure.

??? No cell data is no cell data no matter what carrier you want to use.

Reading the FCC summary, it appears the FCC is finally addressing the blackmail tactic of local broadcast stations in the licensing of the Broadcast Network channels for re-transmission. With declining advertising revenues, some stations have radically hiked the fees to the satellite and cable networks. Originally the fees to to repay the stations for the cost of providing the signals, not as a profit maker for other lost revenues. The disputes have caused channel blackouts. The one between Dish and Harlingen, TX ABC lasted almost one and a half years. The FCC created monopolies of the Broadcast Networks signals through the local stations to protect advertising revenues for the local stations. The local stations pay fees to the National Networks based upon possible advertising revenues from the area of the local station, called a Direct Marketing Area (DMA). If there wasn't some control, if subscribers could choose their signal from anywhere, many could choose New York, the local station would be paying fees to the National Network but not have local subscribers viewing, thus not getting advertising revenue. There was a need for this DMA monopoly system that the FCC created but like any monopoly, one important job of the government is to monitor and regulate the monopoly. The FCC wasn't doing that. It appeared from the FCC summary was a plan to take the local stations out of the loop by determining a National Fee for the satellite and cable companies to pay. The local stations do not like this plan because is eliminates a blackmail hold on Broadcast Channel signals. DNS was created as an exemption for a very narrow group of people, RVers, OTR truckers, and people who could not receive OTA signals and in the beginning, the satellite companies only had access to a few. Over time, Dish added every DMA set of Locals to it offerings which is why DNS has faded from the Dish offerings. DirecTV does not have every DMA and therefore still offers DNS.

We used the AT&T $20 plan for our GM Car as back fill for our Verizon plan. Neither was reliable enough for streaming Video as an alternative to satellite TV.

Sure a lot of ads for Goodyear G614 tires to be discontinued

As base services, both Dish and DirecTV deliver pretty decent satellite services. There can be a forever argument about equipment each uses. Today, I would make my decision on how the supplier has adapted to RVers. DirecTV is on a strong path away from mobile RVers while Dish is adding functions designed for the mobile RVer. As for a roof dish, for several years I only used a ground tripod. The tripod was setup at every overnight stop. Good tools make the setup of a ground tripod easy and relatively quick. But having an automatic roof dish does make site setup a lot easier. But we still carried a ground tripod. We would ask for satellite friendly camp sites but it wasn't critical. If the roof dish could not lock onto the satellites, we would just put up the tripod. The tripod also allowed to choose between the two sets of Dish satellites when it was beneficial to us.

As I said before, not one of the tables I have ever seen on length/width limits has been correct. The only accurate sources are from each state, either from the Drivers Licence manual or more accurately the state codes. So trying to fine line reading those tables is useless. In doing research for the HHRV Resource Guide, http://www.hhrvresource.com, for limits on using Class 8 trucks for RV purposes, I have been in all 50 states'and the District of Columbia codes and have seen the actual definitions and limits. While I considered compiling my own and accurate table, I decided against it as I don't get paid for researching things for people who don't want to do the lookup them selves or just ignore laws anyways. If you want the accurate numbers, look them up. By law, all state codes have to be available to the public on the Internet. And every state Department of Motor Vehicles has the Drivers license manuals online.

Interesting, spreadsheets are hard but CAD is easy?

Nice list but wrong is so many ways. For the record, 28.5' is the typical max trailer length for double commercial trailers. Whenever I see lists like this I start with Maryland because I have dug into the state codes in great detail. Maryland made 40' trailers legal in 2003 and I have yet to see any of these supposedly accurate lists show that. Length and width rules are by state, i.e. you have to obey the rules of the state when on their roads. This is unlike your drivers license which is good is all the states and the District of Columbia. Rough rule of thumb for RVs is 65' rig total, 40' trailer, 45' motorhome. Be aware that commercial limits are not applicable to RVs. And yes, sometimes tickets are written for over length.