RE: Dish Network - Satellite Connection
I find pointing a Dish500 to be a real challenge. You realize that you need to be pointing halfway between the 110 and 119 birds and the antenna needs to be skewed?
My guess is that you actually had the 119 feedhorn aimed at 110 or vice versa.
I use a PC program called SATFINDER (Google it) to get the angles to aim it.
I gave up dragging along the 500 and use one of the older single feed horn antennas and just point it at 110. That's where my locals are and what I mostly watch anyway.
RE: First trip was great.....until
Ken,
Anywhere near Fenton Lake is just about the last place in NM I would go and exactly for the reasons you discovered.
I spent the week before Memorial Day out at Conchas Lake. Had a great time.
George
RE: Dexter Axles
Ralph's got it.
When greasing the EZ-Lube you must jack up the wheel and give it a spin. Pump in grease VERY, VERY slowly while watching for the old grease to come back out around the nozzle. If the old grease is not coming back out at you then the inner seal is leaking! Buy a good quality double lipped seal. If the original poster never added any grease, then the trailer manufacturer probably hammered grease right by the inner seal by using an air-powered grease gun.
I agree that EZ-Lubes are better suited to boat trailers (that's where my experience is). Far superior to those @#$%^&* bearing buddies. Talk about your greasy brake linings. Bearing buddies put a constant pressure on the grease in the hub. That's an invitation for grease to leak by the inner seal. EZ-Lube just insures that the void is completely full of grease so that water isn't sucked into that void when backing a hot axle into cold water. It's that water (especially if it's salty) that eventually causes the bearing to fail.
Best of all: NeverLubes. That's what's on my Sunnybrook. I'm probably going on 30,000 plus miles or so with ZERO problems. I check them with a spin of the wheel when I adjust the brakes.
RE: Are you a Licensed Ham
KD5QE here.
The call sign plus 146.52 is stenciled on my spare tire carrier on the back of the fifth wheel. Also, along with CB Ch13.
I get far more calls on 146.52 than I do on that supposed RV channel 13.
