Dutch_12078
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On 8/11/2021 at 6:12 PM, noteven said:
Try the Homes on Wheels Alliance
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Over the course of many years I've had drivers licenses in three states and two countries, plus the military. Not one of them ever asked if I owned a vehicle.
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It's likely a common rear axle, usually from Dana. Pretty much any large truck shop should be able to handle it.
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My wife and I have shared the same PCP for a number of years now, and for the past few years even sharing most appointments. She works for a multiple clinic practice run by our nearest hospital. Our PCP is a gem that routinely goes above and beyond her normal duty requirements. She has responded to my patient portal messages after hours, on weekends, and once renewed a prescription for me while attending a friend's funeral. The only other doctors I was seeing at least annually before my first stroke were my dermatologist and my VA PCP in order to stay active in the system. Since the stroke, I'm also seeing a cardiologist and a neurologist regularly along with speech, occupational, and physical therapists. Shortly before my second stroke, I was given a preliminary diagnosis of Addison's Disease pending confirmation by an endocrinologist. Still waiting on that. Oh, and my Advantage Plan does not require referrals for most specialists.
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1 hour ago, sandsys said:
Many of us did some part-timing after full-timing and it does help make the transition to not going at all a little easier. Not going at all is still not easy but easier. You are lucky to have kids nearby willing to help. Keep on keeping on as long as you can.
Linda
Thanks, Linda. Yes, both our daughters have been a godsend to us over the years, especially now that our daily lives have gotten more difficult. We're also fortunate that our grand daughter and her family live only about 20 minutes away from our favorite state park where we hope to be spending the most time next spring and summer on our favorite site.
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Thanks for the kind words everyone, and we do want to get well enough by spring so we can at least keep camping at our area state parks. We have reservations covering 2 weeks including Memorial Day, 2 week including the 4th of July, and a week at a fairly new NY state park that we haven't tried yet. Labor Day will be covered as soon as the reservation window opens. All are within 2 hours of our base. One of our daughters and her partner have offered to drive the motorhome to the campgrounds and help us get set up if necessary, but we hope that won't be necessary. It's very reassuring to know the help is available though.
It's going to take some getting used to this lifestyle change, but basically it just means going back where we were in 2005 when I retired and we bought our first motorhome. Of course we're not happy about it, but we'll sort it out eventually. Thanks again everyone!
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I knew it was probably coming since my stroke last April, but hoped for better. During my appoint with my primary this morning that she requested, she dialed up a pre-arranged conference call with my cardiologist, neurologist, and physical therapist, and they all agreed that it wasn't safe for me to continue driving our motorhome for now. Some things they hoped would improve have unfortunately gotten worse. My stamina has declined to the point where I can't be active for more than a few minutes at a time, making hooking up the car for moves 15-20 minute process instead of the 5 minutes it used to take. My balance has also declined so much that I've been forced to move from using a single cane to using two canes, and recently to using a walker. The doctors did agree that I should keep our spring and summer NY State park reservations in place, in hopes that I'll improve enough by then. Our NY reservations are all within 2 hours or less of our Adirondack cottage and permanent camp site, and I was told not to make any further away than that. And in case anyone wonders, my wife's health conditions have kept her out of the motorhome drivers seat for the past several years, so that's not an option.
I suppose at 80, I expected it sooner or later, but I'll admit I was really hoping for later. Fortunately, my wife and I are both still cleared to drive our car, so that's a relief anyway. I have already started canceling 4 months of winter reservations at state and national parks in Georgia and Florida that were to start in January, but I think the one that will hurt the most will be our planned stay at the SKP Sumter Oaks park near Bushnell, FL. We haven't been there in a few years, and were really looking forward to getting back there. We're going to continue to live in the motorhome at our private site until the weather gets cold enough to drive us into the cottage. And I'll be working hard to get clearance from my doctors to drive the motorhome again by spring. I'll still hang around the forums to offer what ever help I can. Wish us well!
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"12600 Stowe Drive, Poway, CA 92064" is the address of Scenic View Industrial Park. "STE8" would be the suite the RV Water Filter Store occupies.
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On 10/14/2023 at 8:41 PM, Ray,IN said:
Even though we never full-timed, I never cottoned to a monthly rate with all utilities included. I prefer not to subsidize others bills, or vica-versa, be a moocher.
Aren't you doing the same thing whether it's monthly, weekly, or daily when all utilities are included?
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12 minutes ago, D&J said:
Let's face it there is no way the Dish will start using a satellite in a new position that existing equipment won't pick up. The 118 sat will probably be moved into some existing position like where 129 was and then renamed.
Denny
Isn't the 118.8 sat pretty busy already carrying the Dish International channel package?
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13 hours ago, Larry Burkett said:
When we fire up the wally and go thru finding the satellites a screen comes up saying all sats not found, you acknowledge it and it finishes up. I was on the phone today with an advanced tech support lady, and she told me that 129 was sunseted because it was old and being replaced with sat 118 in the near future.
I hope she meant 119, not 118. None of the current standard WA LNBF's will pick up 118.
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1 hour ago, Dutch_12078 said:
Walgreens here has the shots. We got ours last Monday, the day after we got our RSV and flu shots.
I should add that neither of us had any ill effects from any of the shots beyond the expected injection site soreness for a day or two.
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Walgreens here has the shots. We got ours last Monday, the day after we got our RSV and flu shots.
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12 hours ago, GR "Scott" Cundiff said:
That's a nifty solution! I know that cell data options have improved a lot over the past few years. Although I think it can still be a challenge in some of the more "wide open spaces" parts of the country.
Kind of funny for us now in stix and brix is that not only do we have an amazingly fast internet connect, but we also have full scale unlimited 5G. I would have been thrilled with one or the other while we were on the road. Now, I have more than I can use (and for less money than we were spending on unlimited data + satellite TV.
We're fortunate in having both Verizon (Visible) and AT&T unlimited data plans that only cost a total of $50/month. Everywhere we've been over the past several years, we've had good service with one or the other, and often both.
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43 minutes ago, D&J said:
I tried it and if made no difference 😒
Denny
Thanks for the report, Denny. It was worth a try, but I'm sorry it didn't help. I haven't owned a VIP211K for a number of years now, so I couldn't try it first.
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For those of you with VIP's, has any one tried clearing the satellite list by disconnecting the coax to the dish and running a check switch? Accept the message that says you have fewer satellites, and then reconnect the coax and run the test again. It should only find the 110 and 119 sats this time of course, and hopefully stop looking for the dark 129 sat.
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11 hours ago, GR "Scott" Cundiff said:
We were Dish Satellite customers for many years, even before we went full time, so we were already used to occasional outages during rough weather. When we bought a house a couple of months ago we went with all streaming services and left satellite. Just yesterday we had our first bout of heavy weather. It crossed my mind as I watched TV that for many years I would have been wondering if the signal would fade during the worst of it.
This, of course, isn't all that big a deal, but it is another of those little frustrations that were pretty common for us in the RV that we don't have now.
We sort of have the best of both worlds when it comes to severe weather. When a storm is approaching, we often switch from Dish to the DishAnywhere app on our Firestick that's streaming from the H2 at our Upstate NY cottage. The weather is usually sufficiently different between there and where we are that the service on that end is either not affected or at least the storm hits at a different time.
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In the thirteen years my wife and I have been full-timing, I think the most common frustration that has followed us from park to park has been getting acquainted with the layout in grocery stores every couple of weeks and finding restaurants we like. Over the years though as we've aged, we've found ourselves returning more often to parks, and even specific sites, that we enjoy and have found comfortable for us, and both the stores and restaurants have become more familiar as well. We're just not into the adventure and challenge of finding new places anymore.
As far as medical issues, yes, we've had our share of those, including some ongoing issues affecting both of us. Fortunately, we have an excellent Medicare Advantage plan that's accepted nationwide, and we've developed a cadre of doctors in the appropriate specialties that we can refer to either in person, by telemedicine, or phone call. If nothing else, a number of times both of us have managed nicely with a local urgent care facility for simple wounds and infections. We've also had no trouble locating lab services for blood draws, etc, as requested by our doctors. Last winter when my wife was hospitalized in Florida due to complications from COPD, her Upstate NY pulmonologist quickly called on an associate in Florida with hospital privileges there to manage her care and consult with him. Her cardiologist also had an associate stop in and review her testing and treatment to ensure there were no heart related issues. Our costs were all just her usual co-pays for in-plan services. We haven't found full-timing to add any significant issues to finding proper medical care when needed using the relationships we've developed over the years. It was fortunate that we had arrived at our Upstate NY permanent site the day before my stroke last April, but with a lot of help, I've recovered enough that we were able to make a few trips to NY state park campgrounds, and have one more coming up before stay put for the holiday before heading south again. We're now at an age and condition where continuing to full-time will probably become prohibitive fairly soon, possibly by next spring. Our "hang up the keys" plan is in place, so we'll see how it goes. The bottom line is that we've never regretted one minute of the years we've spent full-timing, and won't trade it for any other life style until we have to.
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Sorry, but the Hopper series receivers do not have the software installed needed to control the X2 or any other portable "dome" type antenna. Even as a secondary receiver, it still needs the software to control changing channels.
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Apparently CB2 and 3 are fed from CB1, and since the outputs are separate feeding separate loads, CB2 and 3 are not acting as a 60 amp breaker, but as individual 30 amp breakers. I agree that protecting a 30 amp breaker feed with a 30 amp breaker is a bit strange though.
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17 minutes ago, oldjohnt said:
I agree, many genset outputs are hard wired into a junction box that then wires up to a transfer switch or panel. Swapping out the wiring to a new genset should be easy and again insure there's proper overcurrent protection for the conductors to the transfer or panel.. WELL DUH lol
Likewise, actually I didn't mind the older RV's that had a NEMA TT-30R Genset fed Receptacle in the box where the power cord was stored so all you did was plug the cord into it when driving or dry camped as needed MUCH CHEAPER EASIER AND FOOLPROOF without the expense of a Transfer Switch and its potential problems........ although perhaps not quite as convenient. The more bells whistles gizmos and gadgets the more can go wrong, for example the slide outs, power awnings, auto levelers etc etc many of which experience problems. Oh well such it is..
John T
After two failed transfer switches in about 8 years, I gave up and wired my Onan BGE 5000 to a standard NEMA 14-50 "poor man's transfer switch" outlet installed in the power cord bin. Other than the rare time I've had to go out and plug the power cord in during a rain storm, I've been quite happy with it. It quickly became routine to plug into the outlet when stowing the cord after disconnecting from shorepower for travel.
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1 hour ago, oldjohnt said:
Good info for the OP, if the 6500 is equipped with 30 Amp overcurrent protection and 10 Gauge wire connects its output to the panel or transfer switch ?? ALLS WELL AS THE CONDUCTORS ARE PROPERLY PROTECTED !!!!!!!!
Good news for the OP !!!!!!!!! THANKS TO DUTCH
John T
Yep, even the older 5000 with the 20 and 30 amp breakers came with 10 gauge wire for both outputs. It was probably just cheaper to only source one size for a range of models.
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9 hours ago, oldjohnt said:
Sure, it can work so long as it fits,,,,,,,,,any space and clearance requirements are satisfied,,,,,,,you get fuel to it,,,,,,,,,,,, ALL WIRING IS PROPERLY INSTALLED AND PROTECTED...........
SAFETY NOTE: There may wiring modifications HOWEVER If you modify the existing genset output breaker or add an additional breaker TO PROPERLY PROTECT THE EXISTING WIRING FROM GENSET TO TRANSFER SWITCH OR PANEL you should be fine. 5000 Watts at 120 Volts = 42 Amps while 6500 = 54 Amps capacity. IE if you limit the new gensets current to match what the existing wire can handle alls well HOWEVER if you want to increase capacity to 6500 Watts then wiring upgrades may be required.........I don't know the size of your existing ?? it may already be adequate for a bigger genset ???
Space, Clearance, Fuel and ADEQUATE WIRING AND OVERCURRENT PROTECTION is what you need to be concerned with ...........
John T
Both the Onan 5000 and 6500 have two 30 amp breakers on the output, although some early 5000's have a 20 and a 30. Both are also supplied with the same size output wiring, that if memory serves me, are 10 AWG stranded wire for the hots and neutral. Not sure about the safety ground.
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On 8/22/2023 at 5:24 PM, Andy Baird said:
"Is your address actually a P.O. Box? We used Escapees mail service and they gave us a street address."
I have a street address--just as with Escapees Rainbow Drive street addresses. It's the address of DakotaPost in Sioux Falls. Wells Fargo said:
It looks to me as if they recognized that as DakotaPost's street address, and correctly assumed that I was using them as a PMB (Personal Mail Box)... even though I don't use "PMB" as part of my mailing address.
Now, I am a registered SD voter, I have vehicles registered there, I have a SD driver's license, and so on. It's a fully legal domicile address, just as my Rainbow Drive address was when I was domiciled in Texas years ago. But if WF demands a physical residence address, well, I ain't got one. (And if they are doing a "sweep" of their customer list, you folks domiciled in TX may be hearing from them soon.)
The USPS "Look Up a ZIP Code" site identifies addresses issued by a CMRA (Commercial Mail Receiving Agency). Many business organizations use this feature to verify deliverable addresses.
https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-lookup.htm?byaddress
Try this test address:
650 E PALISADE AVE STE 2 #123
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS NJ
07632
When the address validates, click on the down arrow and note the 'Y' under the "Commercial Mail Receiving Agency" header
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