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I own my equipment, 2 Hopper 2's and 1 Joey, my account is listed as an Outdoor account, and I'm on Pay-As-You-Go billing. And the Android app does work on our "Nougat" OS version phone for locals changes, but not on the other because the "Kit Kat" version is too old.

We have our silverware, dishes, regularly used pots and pans, toaster, etc., stowed in the kitchen cabinets & drawers, plus the drawers under the dinette bench seats. Lesser used roasting and baking utensils are stowed under the bed along with an assortment of food storage containers. Grilling utensils are stowed in an outside bin along with the gas grill.

Yes, if you're changing locals via chat or phone, you can give them any service address you want. You need to be within the spot beam for those locals to view them of course, unless it's one of the few DMA's with CONUS locals on one of the sats. For instance, when the hurricanes were causing all the problems in FL, GA, SC, etc., we changed our service address to St Marys, GA for the Jacksonville locals on the 77 sat while we were parked in upstate NY. That gave us much better first hand coverage than we could get from the NY locals. Using the phone app, you have no option to select which locals, which takes away the option to switch before you get there as well.

I meant that the Ft Wayne locals on 61.5 can be received anywhere in the lower 48 states.

If you can hit the eastern arc 61.5 bird, the Ft Wayne, IN locals are on a CONUS beam...

Yes, ABC, CBS, etc., are what I meant by "national network programs". I wonder how many RV'ers will be switching from DTV to Dish over this...

This entire thread is about getting the local TV stations that serve the area you're currently in so you can see the local news, weather, syndicated and national network programs.

We used an Acurite Internet connected hub and multiple sensor setup in our coach to monitor temps for our dog when we were away for several hours. Our dog has passed on, and now we use the same setup to monitor the inside and outside temps at our Adirondack cottage during the winter. We have alerts set for low and high temps, as well as low sensor batteries and loss of signals. The temp alerts are set to text us, with the less critical battery and LOS alerts emailed. We can also check the temps at anytime using an app on our phones. The complete system with 3 sensors is about $149.

And that's one of the reasons why I'll stick with DPP triple LNB's, a DPH42, and our 1K4 dish if/when we move up to Hopper 3's from our two 2's.

I've never had a problem with the Dish chat service other than occasionally with the CSR on the other end, but since the last update, the app does hang on me quite often when I hit "Manage Locals". I hope they get it fixed soon as well...

The check box label under the billing address is "Same as Service Address". All checking that box will do is change your billing address to match your service address. It will not change your service address. Sorry...

I'd call writing initials in the dust on the moon a drop of rain in the Great Lakes compared to the 400,00+ lbs of junk humans have dumped there since 1959. And certainly no more damaging than the thousands of semi-permanent foot prints also left in the dust.

I don't recall just when Atwood switched to the potted boards, but it sure eliminated board level repairs when they did. Since we visit a fair amount of cool/cold weather areas in the course of the years, I thought it prudent to have a board on hand just in case. Now having two furnaces though, it's less of an issue since we can keep warm well enough on one furnace in moderate cold weather. The 20 degree nights we're seeing right now in upstate NY though, could be a little problematic if we had a furnace failure. With both of them working, we've been comfortable even at temps a few degrees below zero. The furnace boards work fine in the water heater as well if needed. It takes a little getting used to the time delay before it fires up though.

I agree on the "preventative spares", John! I had a Dinosaur universal igniter board on hand that I bought in 2008 and never had a board failure that needed anything more than contact cleaning to correct. Then I used my spare board to fix a neighbor's furnace while in Florida this winter. Since we were moving frequently at that point, I didn't get around to replacing the board, so of course, three weeks later my Atwood water heater's potted igniter module hard failed. Fortunately, because we have two Hydro-flame furnaces, I was able to borrow the igniter board from one of them to keep us in hot water for several days until we were near an RV dealer that had a new board in stock. And shortly after that, I added another universal board to my spares.

Oh yeah, at that age I'd say your old lower case "dinosaur board" is probably due to be replaced by a new upper case "Dinosaur Board"! I usually keep a spare Dinosaur UIB-S universal igniter board on hand that can be used as a replacement in many RV furnaces, water heaters, and refrigerators.

I'm guessing that you have a Suburban water heater, Lou. Atwood uses a fully potted board that's impossible to service beyond cleaning the connection contacts. When my Atwood heater failed recently, I took the potted board with me and had the parts guy verify it was bad on his tester before I bought a Dinosaur replacement.

Maybe it's time to take a look at Dish for your sat TV service. We change our service address as often as daily with just a 5 minute online chat session.

When I was discharged from the Army and my wife and I moved into our first house, we went to my parents house one weekend to finishing retrieving the items I had left stored there. While we were pulling out my camping and hiking gear, my wife suddenly called out to me that I had left a dirty sock inside my aluminum cooking set! I started laughing and explained to her that the originally white cotton sweat sock was actually quite clean, but had been my "coffee maker" for at least 5 or 6 years while camping. I put the ground coffee in the sock and tied it with a loose knot before dropping it into a pan of hot water. Once the coffee had steeped long enough, I just dumped the grounds out and rinsed the sock until the next batch. Back home, despite numerous washings, not surprisingly the sock remained permanently stained. Later on while prepping for our first camping trip together, my wife made sure I remembered to bring the "coffee maker sock".

It certainly will...

We use a basic Mr Coffee $12-$15 drip machine with just an on/off switch, no clock or timer, for our coffee whether we have power or not. With no power, we just heat up a pan of water on the stove and pour it through the coffee basket with the top open. Then the coffee goes in an insulated AirPot carafe for dispensing as needed. Makes our coffee just the way we like it. Hot and tasty...

A quick way to test if the board is bad if you have a Hydroflame furnace, particularly the common 8500 or 8900 series with easy access, is to just borrow the igniter board from it and try it on your water heater. When you turn it on, there will be the same ~20 second delay that the furnace has, but then it will fire up and work normally if nothing else is wrong.

Coach-Net covers winch outs up to 100' from a maintained or campground road. The distance limit is pretty common, and is based on standard tow truck winch cables being 125' long. I think GS/Allstate has similar wording, but I haven't seen the full benefits wording for the other two.

Are you aware that Good Sam contracts with Allstate Motor Club for their roadside assistance plan? When you call for assistance, it's the Allstate call center that answers the phone, but that's subject to change when the contract next expires. SafeRide by the way, has been around for 20+ years and has a very good reputation in the towing industry. Do various roadside assistance plans use the same service providers? Sure they do... In each town, there's only so many service providers available, and not all will contract with the various plans. Those that do often sign on with multiple plans because it's good for their business, filling in between the more lucrative direct contact calls. The downside is at busy times with multiple plan subscriber calls, the plan that pays the best/fastest will get priority after the direct calls. For many years that was Coach-Net, but I haven't seen the latest numbers in a few years now.

Whenever I pull into a truck stop or rest area and need to park with the "big guys", I look for empty slots that are the least accessible for them, yet still doable for me.

The Bosch eAxle modular drive system that Nikola is using has a listed weight for the 150 KW (about 200 HP) version of 90 kg (about 200 lbs). I didn't find a weight spec for the 300KW version. The eAxle combines the motor, transmission, and electronics in a single package.