The Nomadic Life

[Too Tall]

"Almost cut my hair...."

Feeling dirty, tarnished, upended to such a degree that I popped for Starlink Gen 3.

We are on the road or in remote locales so often this single solution siren call has given me side-eye for the last time. I feel dirty.

Rather than integrate the system into our trailer I'll use a powered military-type case to house everything. Just power the case via a 120v extension cord and point the dish to heaven and voila'.

Given the portable nature of this configuration I've got some flexibility otherwise not possible were it integrated to the travel trailer. (cough) I'm "justifying" already ;)

The over under was a easy calculus. Paying near exactly the same for a Nighthawk cellular router and provisioning that with monthly data winds up about $50 more to use Starlink.

Fire away. xxoo

[Clyde]

^ pic please. interested.

[Too Tall]

https://www.savageutv.com/collection...dard-dish-case
Our modest Honda Genset is more than adequate to run this if required.
If your goal is boondocking, in our case same answer. Using this with a inverter/battery source etc. is a bridge too far at this point in my madness.

[bigbill]

We were considering the travel Starlink. We use the non-travel round dish version here in AZ. In Wyoming, I can hotspot my phone and stream TV and have internet for my master's research this summer. Even though the Wyoming place only has 4G, it is a very good signal. We are house hunting to permanently relocate to Wyoming, so it becomes less important to get a travel Starlink. FWIW, I get around 250 MB/sec here in BFE AZ. I know the town in Wyoming has some pretty advanced fiber optic one gig internet providers which I bet will be cheaper than the $120/month I'm paying now for Elon net. Two summers ago, I was able to hotspot in the Fishing Bridge RV Park in Yellowstone.

[bigbill]

We safely arrived in Worland, Wyoming, on Saturday and were able to go directly to our property and hook up the trailer. I made sure nothing had made a home in the 100A box and turned it on at the pole. I flushed out the water line, ran the hose to the trailer, and dumped grey water to check the flow to the septic tank. All good. We looked at some houses in town since we're looking to relocate away from NW Arizona. I think we'll buy a manufactured home for our property since it already has septic, water, and power. We can do a construction loan to upgrade the waterline to 1.5" and run a gas line.

In other news, I had to run the furnace today because it was 40 and raining. We have a few nights in the mid-30s before it becomes spring next week with 80/50 days.

[Too Tall]

Good re-cap Bill. LOL I remember July snow squalls in Rock Springs. It certainly is never boring there is it?

[bigbill]

We have had off-and-on sleet since noon. I have the electric fireplace running to keep the place kind of warm. I have used the day to assemble more sources for my latest thesis which I'll start writing next month. The 4G around here is spectacular and I upped my Verizon account to 130 GB a month so I can hotspot and use my laptop. Finding primary sources from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is challenging, so I am relying on journals and publications. Midwife diaries are very useful. If you see me in a bar, buy me some beers and I'll tell you all about the Proclamation of 1763 and how it was responsible for the Revolutionary War, but I'll only use examples from western Pennsylvania.

The upcoming weekend looks better for riding with upper 60s and the following week will have 80-degree days.