The 2005 Travels of Richard n Shirley

We are fulltime RV's. This means we have no other home but our motor home. We joined the Escapees RV Club and use their mail forwarding service and forum. In addition to Escapees forum, you can find us on rv.net and lrv2.com. We are Richard n Shirley on all of them. We access the internet with a Direcway satellite dish mounted on a tripod. We do set up the dish at every place we stop for the night or more. We are #2321 on datastormusers.com. Click us and you will find our current location.

Friday, August 19, 2005

This is what the cat does when its raining or something has scared him. He runs and gets under the passenger seat and hides.

The signal had been good since we came here and first setup the dish. We worked and worked to get a better signal but to no avail. There was no limbs in our line of sight, no obstructions at all. The only thing that could be a problem would be that we were aiming ove the back of the rv. And it may be that the tall trees were diffusing the signal enough that we were not goingto get any better. Our decision was to move the dishand see what effect this had.

This move we did. We moved the disc about 5 ft and started over. The best signal we could get was a 64. This was good enough we hoped to pass the test. And it did! We unwired the opi and removed the align-a-sight and hoped that the signal would be good. There was nothing else we could do.

Shirley yelled out to me that we had all five lights, we had a good signal. This is very important to us since we have no cellphone service. We can be contacted and we can contact our families via email. And yes, if its a dier emergency, there is always a pay phone.

The second pic is inside the coach with rain coming down. Tho this pic was taken during the last rain storm. it was valid for friday afternoon as it rained again.

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