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RE: List of autos towed 4 down
Motorhome Magazine has a list. Scroll down to dinghy guide.
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kjburns
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03/16/10 06:06pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: DirecTV staffed by MORONS!
I switched to Dish last year and so far the service with Dish has been a lot better. The DirecTV installers butchered the house, spent three days and finally did not finish the job. When I called Dish, they were out the next day and finished in two hours.
I don't have any receivers connected to a phone line, and was told that it was not a problem, even with the fifth receiver I recently bought and activated. Four receivers are in the house and one is in the motorhome.
I think Qwest leads the way with terrible customer service. When we moved to WA in 2001, they kept sending my bill to my old street address and my new city. I couldn't get a bill. I spent many hours trying to get the problem corrected. Finally I talked to one rep with a brain. Before I could tell her my problem she started laughing. "I see we've been sending your bills to the old street address and new city. It's a good thing we're a monopoly. We make money in spite of ourselves."
When we moved to our current home, Qwest told me we could get 12mb DSL. I had two lines, but only wanted one this time. They called to confirm the order, but it still had two lines. Correcting the order to one line resulted in a five day delay. When it was installed, the DSL was only 1.5mb. I switched to cable internet and Vonage...goodbye Qwest!
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kjburns
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03/16/10 05:47pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Class A shopping is stressful
All things being equal (they're really not), I'd take a close look at the Horizon. Nada lists it at $110,270 low retail and $132,860 average retail. With three slides, it will have more room and the floor plan looks pretty good.
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kjburns
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03/16/10 05:06pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: cable to Sat.
We have the Dish "America's Everything" package with four solo DVR receivers in the house and a dual tuner DVR in the RV. That runs about $135/month including locals and the sports package.
We had DirecTV before, then moved to Dish when DirecTV dropped VS.
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kjburns
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03/14/10 08:55am |
Technology Corner
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RE: Daylight savings time yea or nay
I never "got" the whole DST thing and living in AZ most of my life, I don't have to :)
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kjburns
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03/14/10 08:40am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: This antenna VS. This antenna help please
We do watch a lot of TV and a tripod setup is a good choice for us. We have an automatic dish, but use the tripod anyway. With a Dish 1000 satellite dish and 722 dual tuner receiver, we can watch different channels when we want, HD, DVR...just like at home.
Sure, it's less expensive, but it's a better option anyway. We go out in the winter, and it's nice to be able to just walk out and brush off snow with the tripod mounted dish.
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kjburns
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03/13/10 08:12pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Just Had a Good Laugh
There's a reason I bought a class A. I'm one of those who has zero skills backing a trailer. I can back a 40' class A into a pretty snug site with no effort. In the photo below, the backup camera was out and I still got it right where I wanted it. If it was a trailer, I'd still be trying to get it parked.
A man's gotta know his limitations :)
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kjburns
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03/13/10 05:34pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: New to Forum
Welcome to the neighborhood.
If you get up to Anacortes, WA you might try Pioneer Trails. We spent a week there and really liked it.
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kjburns
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03/13/10 04:44pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Storage Lot Cost
We're building a garage so the RV is being temporarily stored off-site. The cost is $60/month with a security guard living on site, water and dump station.
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kjburns
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03/13/10 10:56am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Passport USA?????
We received the PA rate for 2 weeks and saved the cost of the 3 yr membership in just this one stop.We had a similar experience, except the rate applied to one week. It was enough to cover a 3 year membership. We had a one year membership initially and let it lapse. Soon after the expiration, we were heading to a PA park and the savings were enough to cover 3 years. It didn't take a rocket scientist to do the math. If you're going to a PA park anyway, it's common sense to buy the membership.
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kjburns
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03/12/10 10:09pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: PROPANE
Most RV dealers sell propane. There are also plenty of propane companies who will deliver if you need it while setup somewhere.
PS: Turn the caps lock off.
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kjburns
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03/12/10 09:50pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Anyone have buyers regret?
Our first was getting a bit "narrow" after spending time in it. There was one living room slide out and one bedroom slide out. It wasn't too bad, but more width was something we wanted in our second. The first one was really our training wheels, something to get our feet wet, so I wouldn't call it buyer's regret.
We learned the ropes some, and learned what was important to us. It seems like you can research all you want, but until you live with it, there are things that you'll overlook. The first coach had an oven that we never used. A microwave/convection oven is fine. The extra storage space is more important. The added width of the new one is appreciated as are things like LCD TV2, a fireplace, automatic leveling, etc. Lessons learned in the first coach were applied to the second purchase. I don't see us moving from this one any time soon.
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kjburns
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03/12/10 08:38pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: dish and sat 128
A single LNB dish should work on 129.
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kjburns
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03/12/10 04:50pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Is it possible to use laptop to watch tv ?
My HP came with a simple antenna that works pretty well. The antenna doesn't pick up as many channels as a rooftop would, but the channels it picked up were clear.
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kjburns
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03/12/10 04:48pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: The Definition of Insanity
I was essentially using a new hard drive, deleting the recovery partition and then creating a new partition using the full drive size.
There is a possibility that the DVD drive might be a weak link and was causing the problems. It hasn't had any problems before and didn't when I installed Win7 RC1 a few months ago.
I also have a newer HP laptop with an 18" screen and Win7 installed flawlessly on that one.
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kjburns
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03/11/10 06:46pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Class A shopping is stressful
You might poke around eBay. For example, I saw this 07 Allegro Bay with a "buy it now" of $108,000. There are 21 Tiffins listed now.
We ended up buying new since most of the used MHs I found were listed for as much or more than we paid. The excise tax might be a pain, but at least you have a warranty with a new one.
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kjburns
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03/11/10 05:01pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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The Definition of Insanity
...is doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting a different outcome. Sometimes though, there is a different outcome.
I have an HP dv2000 laptop that was originally running Vista, then Windows 7 RC1 with no problems. I tried to upgrade it with a purchased Windows 7 Premium. The upgrade was not allowed since RC1 was Win7 Ultimate. I tried re-installing the original Vista disk and it failed with an error message about being unable to run winload.exe. I tried wiping the HD and installing Win7 Premium and it failed too, while expanding files.
Finally, after several failures, I bought an external drive caddy to see what was going on with the drive. It was partitioned to 24GB & 125GB. I repartitioned the drive to a single partition, then tried installing Vista again. No luck and it was back to the two partitions, so I used the external caddy again to put it back to one partition.
This time I tried installing Win7 again. It failed. I tried it again and it failed, but later in the installation. So, I tried it again and it worked! Then it was time to enter the product key...nope. You can't enter the key if the upgrade is installed on a system without a previous version already installed.
Then I read that you can leave the key blank and re-install Win7 upgrade over Win7 upgrade. This took a couple of attempts, but it finally installed and accepted the key.
I have no idea why the installations kept failing. Memory and drive tests all passed with no errors. I've been using the computer all day, installing things etc. and there haven't been any problems.
Sometimes you can do the same thing over and over, and expect a different result :)
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kjburns
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03/11/10 04:27pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Trade In Offers
If sales tax is a consideration, your state may tax the difference between the new coach and the trade. If you sell it yourself, you'll need to get enough to cover the additional tax to make it worthwhile.
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kjburns
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03/10/10 12:06pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Satellite dish set up wanted
If you were at home, I'd say to swing by and I could give you a tripod and dish I'm not using since I switched to Dish.
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kjburns
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03/10/10 10:30am |
Technology Corner
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RE: Cisco introduces the router for you
I could use one of these at home. Streaming videos would fly!
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kjburns
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03/09/10 08:50pm |
Technology Corner
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