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Hmm. I'm surprised to see the CPW shop says I can get a Youth/Senior annual permit for wildlife areas for $10.23 or a day-pass for $9. Makes me feel downright youthful! I like that they first ask for age and residency. That helps get me past options available only to residents and...

If you're referring to replacing the entire Suburban water heater with an Atwood one, I believe the cutout size in the side of the camper is different, plumbing is different, and wire colors are different. So, no, it's not a direct replacement---- not an easy (or relatively easy) one-for-one...

I imagine some readers are wondering about anode rods in FWC campers. Generally, those are magnesium rods attached to the drain plugs of Suburban-brand water heaters. They serve as sacrificial anodes in the steel tanks of those heaters. Atwood (now Dometic) water heaters have aluminum tanks...

Welcome, Tyler! It's helpful that you included the model number of the furnace. Thank you. That sounds like the problem Darren (the RV Works guy) is working on in the first video in this 'Good videos' post. In any case, Darren does a great job of explaining his trouble-shooting process...

Unfortunately, we don't know the answer to one of the critical questions: Do Iota's AGM-specific and LIFEPO-specific pendants do a significantly better job than the internal IQ4 in an application like ours? Or are the differences so minor that they're really just addressing a marketing issue...

I mentioned Gaia GPS in a recent post and Buckland's reply included his endorsement of Maps.me. I too am a fan of Maps.me and had been considering posting something about it. Buckland's comment prompts me to go ahead with that. Hopefully this makes sense to those who've not used it. First, I...

2Z... This isn't what you asked for but I thought you might like to see it given your interest in the topic... After my post, I ran onto this article about the FCC's efforts to make a multi-vendor cell phone coverage map. FCC Puts Out It's First Mobile Coverage Maps: Why They Differ From...

ski, your post reminded me of antenna rotators. And that in turn (!!!!) reminds me of the antenna rotator museum we visited. It's not actually just a museum for antenna rotators. But in the Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen, Ohio, there's a collection of all the Crown-brand antenna...

More on DLS30 and DLS30/IQ4 units.... If you're into reading the threads I mention in post 1, keep in mind that the DLS30 has a 'dual-voltage jack'. This was originally provided to allow the owner to manually choose to charge at 13.6 volts (float) or 14.2 volts (quick-charge), depending on...

A recent thread about shorepower charging reminded me that several years ago I found and saved an interesting graphic representation of how an Iota DLS30/IQ4 works. (For newer WTW members, the DLS30/IQ4 is the AC-to-DC battery charger FWC has put in campers for quite a few years). Click to...

Page 2 of the manual for the CT50K 1028 says: "For CT50/CT53/CT54: If your old thermostat has 3 or more wires (not counting terminals C or C1), you may have purchased the wrong replacement thermostat. Stop now and call 1-800-468-1502 for advice." I don't think that red jumper would be...

Find Phone Signal With Cell Phone Coverage Maps blog post on Gaia's web site I added the Verizon coverage overlay to Gaia on my iPad and viewed a few areas where I know coverage is iffy. The map seemed to be pretty accurate where I live but not very accurate in a nearby state forest. I was...

Mike Patey's account of the vehicle recovery below. Also- Bev is back home in Indianapolis. And Ronnie's funeral will be on Thursday (according to recent posts in Travis' blog)

The HeavyDSparks vehicle-recovery video has been posted....

Is it just a trick of the camera or is that plate in the last photo (post #2) dished in? If so, can it be straightened or perhaps shimmed out? I'd also try unscrewing the back plate of the lock assembly and see if the whole assembly will slide toward the door edge a tiny bit (then retighten)...

The RV and car were brought down off the mountain yesterday (Sunday, 4/10/22) according to Travis' 05:23AM post today. YouTube and "Diesel Brothers" TV personality Dave "HeavyD" Sparks volunteered to organize the recovery. Video of it will be posted on his YouTube channel. Brief excerpt...

This morning I blundered onto an online OnX Offroad map and description of Coyote Road. And that led to finding a trail-difficulty rating for the road the Barkers apparently were on. But I'm getting ahead of myself..... First, look at the Coyote Road entry.... On X Offroad map of Coyote Road...

ntsqd's post made me realize how poorly a 2D map shows what's there (I had looked at Coyote Summit on Caltopo and on Google Maps in Terrain View) And then I wondered how the area would look on Google Earth. So here are the RV and car positions on Google Earth. After the map loads, click on...

I'm still playing with maps. The intent of this one is to have a satellite view of the RV and car locations and allow you to zoom and pan to get a better feel for the roads in the area. In the My Maps portion of Google Maps, I plotted the positions and then changed permissions to allow anyone...

And here's what the USGS 24K topo map (2018 version) shows for the location where the RV was found.... This is a screen capture from the Avenza Maps app on my iPad mini4... (click to enlarge)

And this is what the area looks like on the Benchmark Atlas for Nevada.... (pages 72 and 73) (click to enlarge) (I believe they were a bit east of the last n in 'Argentite Canyon'.)

In trying to understand where the Barkers were, I plotted the GPS positions on Google Maps, GaiaGPS, Garmin Explore, Maps.me, and Mapquest. I tried so many because I couldn't find my way around for lack of road names/numbers and place names in any of them. It's a remote area! Google Maps was...

There's an update in the article this morning. Scroll down to "Beverly's Story" (or click the link to it at the top of the page). "Our hearts are full" article from WTHR13 Indianapolis Also, Travis made additional entries in his blog-style account of the event (under the first photo in 'The...

I see there are several GPS coordinates in the comments under the first photo in the section of the article called 'The Search' (click on the 'See more' link under that photo to see them) One is the location where the RV was found.... "UPDATE 11:56pm EDT 4/5/22 I want to share the precise...

I used to get the Wx2InReach weather report PaulT refers to before my Inreach had a weather function. That would have been before the Inreach's firmware update of June, 2016. I liked it but around that time there were several articles about 'hyperlocalized' weather predictions from the new...