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RoyB
Oct 17, 2013Explorer II
I was camping one time up on a KOA off I81. Got all setup and started looking at where the roof mounted dish was going to point. Trees everywhere.
Then I notice a small hole thru the trees just a few in-line feet from where I was parked. I said "I wonder if that is the dish direction" sure enough it was. I only had to move the trailer a foot back haha...
Apparently someone before me had climbed up into the tree and cut out a hole to gain access to the DIRECTV satellite...
Worked good too...
True Story
My Home Entertainment items are run from my batteries using a PSW 400WATT Inverter when camping off the power grid. I only run my generator at 8Am the next morning for three hours if my batteries are down to around 12.0VDC (50% charge state) so we can do this all over again the next day/night run off the batteries.
Roy Ken
Then I notice a small hole thru the trees just a few in-line feet from where I was parked. I said "I wonder if that is the dish direction" sure enough it was. I only had to move the trailer a foot back haha...
Apparently someone before me had climbed up into the tree and cut out a hole to gain access to the DIRECTV satellite...
Worked good too...
True Story
My Home Entertainment items are run from my batteries using a PSW 400WATT Inverter when camping off the power grid. I only run my generator at 8Am the next morning for three hours if my batteries are down to around 12.0VDC (50% charge state) so we can do this all over again the next day/night run off the batteries.
Roy Ken
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