2 smart phones (so the stay at home kids can call us when they set the house on fire), TV and DVD player (movies and news when the weather won't let us out), I touch and sound dock (for some light music for those romantic evenings by the campfire), Kindle fire (has all my DO recipes in it!), laptop for viewing pictures and filling out http://www.theultimatecampgroundlog.com/
We are normally out and about when we camp. We are constantly looking for campgrounds with hiking trails so we can spend the day hiking and not just hanging around camp. If no hiking trails I will experiment with the DO or fiddle around with the camper fixing/breaking something on it.
We have 2 iPads that always go. Great for games in the truck or at night while the kids are winding down.
The camper has a tv with a DVD player which has really helped when the little one wasn't feeling good or just wanted to lay down for a nap.
There is also a built in radio that we will turn on for some light background music while hanging out making meals, playing cornhole, etc.
Depends - mostly just phones and some times a laptop with 400+ movies on it. Long haul - Bell Expressview (Canadian Sat) and the old manual dish. Gave my mom a carryout fully auto dish last spring - would like to get one myself but have to wait as jobless :thumbdown: right now which I got as an early x-mas gift from my ex-work place. :'(
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That's fun. What's your furthest contact so far?
When I was a kid, a neighbor had a 100+ foot tower with a beam antenna! It looked like a high-tension tower!
While camping, Europe. Mainly because I don't kill myself getting the antenna (a dipole put up as an upside down V) up very high. As a result a lot of what's transmitted bounces off the ground and goes straight up, bounces off the ionosphere, and typically only goes out 200 - 300 miles
At home where I typically use different antennas I've made two-way contacts all over the whole world, but not every political entity.
What may be counter intuitive is that the higher the antenna the less chance of local interference. Low antennas give a lot of energy at ground level. Also a lot of today's electronics are made as cheaply as possible. Sacrificing $0.50 of components that would filter out interference to put that money in the bottom line.
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