It has been a couple of weeks since my last entry and I feel like I am letting down my followers (all 4 that I know of!), so here is an update to keep me motivated and you interested.
After having the trailer at the house I brought it to the storage yard in Big Rock, Il., where we have been storing our trailers for the past 4 years. The space that we had been renting was for a trailer up to 30’ so other arrangements had to be made. We rent by the year and our renewal is at the beginning of December. I was reluctant to pay for another year as hopefully we will get out on the road early in 2011. The solution was to rent month to month, at twice the annual rate. The nice thing though for this higher rent was a very long pull thru spot so we do not have to pay them to put our trailer away and take it out as we did in the past. So now the trailer sits in storage waiting for the big day!
No we have not sold the house. The showings picked up this last weekend but no one to date has been serious or placed an offer. The market in this area is tough as there are limited buyers and a large inventory of homes for sale. We continue to drop the price every couple of weeks to stimulate interest. Hopefully someone will be interested.
The past couple of weeks I have gone out to the trailer to do some things on it. Geek Alert! (I will be talking techie stuff). Mainly I have been trying to figure out a set up for my DirecTV that will work with the wiring in the trailer. This has been an evolving issue as I started taking our satellite service with us in our trailer for the past 3 years. The system has moved from a standard definition dish with receiver and 19” flat screen TV to our current system which is high definition (Single wire set-up, SWM) with two HD-DVR’s in the trailer, a 40” LCD HD TV and a 23” LED HD TV. Fortunately new trailers are being pre-wired to accommodate satellite systems. I just had to figure it all out so I could have a separate tuner/DVR in the living area and one in the bedroom. I think I got it all figured out this time. I still will have to test it out at a later date. For those of you asking, how does the satellite service work in a trailer, here is how. I have a regular dish that I mount on a tripod outside the trailer and then connect the coax wire to an external jack on the trailer. I get the satellite settings from the receiver and then align the dish. As the local channels are spot beamed by DirecTV we were not able to get local channels (major networks) when we were out of the Chicago area, however when we move into the trailer we will then subscribe to a DirecTV RV account. This type of account allows you to receive your network programming from the network stations in Los Angeles and New York, so it should work out fairly well. In addition the trailer does have an HD antenna on its roof to pick up local channels in the area we are in if needed.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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