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2 Nov 2011 Broken kent Link Repaired

New Dover Road CT1 3EJ: LAT N: 51°15'41.42 LONG E: 1° 6'6.15

Canterbury Park and Ride for Motorhomes.Only at New Dover Road Open Monday to Sat 7 am to 7.30 pm

Closed for Entry on Sundays,but you can Leave on a Sunday The £2.50 ticket is valid for 24 hrs but you can         still use it up to 48 hrs max.You can use it as many times as you like to get to and from Town on Park and ride busses.One leaves every 8 mins. But only once to leave the park with your van. Re entry requires a fresh ticket.

There is Fresh water on site and a grey waste disposal drain. Space for 25 Vans.

Warning use of water hose. I witnessed a Swiss Tourer today pushing the hose into his Toilet Casette to wash it and then Toss the hose aside and leave it.

5th August 10

[Reference: EY04/08/10/IEB/All Areas]

Hello All Areas. Welcome to KCMS today Wednesday 4th August.
We have one General Message for You.

General Message.

We have the following General Warning for all your members who have Motor Vehicles fitted with Catalytic Converters.
There has been a spate of Thefts of Catalytic Converters from Motor Vehicles whilst in Garages, now it appears to have escalated to Vehicles Parked on residential driveways.
If you own a Vehicle with a Catalytic Converter you are warned of this particular increase in vehicle crime.
Vehicles with a High Wheel Base, allowing easy access underneath are Prime Targets.
Please be warned.
 

Its German is it a Hymer.

Sunday 26th June 2011.

Well today we have gone mad and ordered a glomax satelite dome for the van. Over the Years and different vans Ive spent a few bob on 12 volt TVs fom 9 inch to  19 inch and all sorts of aerials, some good most rubbish. They all get relegated to the shed and then to the skip. Recently while on a rally in Dorset. the analogue signal was bad. So  out came the suitcase satellite job. Un pack all the bits. Fit the brackets onto my tripod secure this with tent pegs and a bungy, right that wont move, connect the dish and cable connect the sat finder, plug it into the outside connector. Back in the van  install my temp shelf above the TV, connect the satellite box, connect the aerial and the scart. Switch  TV and the sat box on tune TV to  scart. Now the fun starts find compas. lay out my satellite map under  the tripod. drop in the compass see where south is roughly line the dish to astra 28. check sat finder. Great its screaming like a banshee ,must be a good signal. step in the van. Screen shows no signal. Step outside , sat finder says 10 and screaming. move the dish east a little  back in the van. No signal back out move a bit more . All this time Mavis is looking at me in utter disgust. Wont be long luv soon be there. I am in the van out the van this performance was repeated for over an hour. When  by then I was huffing and cursing checking  all the connections over and over, Mavis said Why don’t you just chuck all that rubbish in the skip forget TV. So I disconnected all the bits ,cables clamps sat finder tripod dish sat box and literally  threw it all in a black sack and tossed it under the van for the remainder of the 5 days rally.

When we got home Mavis s was surfing as usual and said have you seen this  dome thing at Snellyvision that’s what you need.  Blimey I said look at the price. It was the glowmax manual  dome system. So I looked it up checked the user manual on a pdf when I got to the bit about easy to  set up using the sat finder, and table of elevation etc. I thought  Oh No more agro no way not for that sort of money.

Then I noticed there was a fully automatic one. it said  simply switch it on and in under 2 min’s it finds the signal and you are watching TV. Now I thought that’s cooking with gas. A quick chat with  Shane and my mind was made up. But  Shane was going on holiday and I had left it to late to order one

( so I thought). But late tonight Sunday Shane phoned me up to confirm I wanted to place the order. Yes please I said. with  details exchanged all done in a couple of minutes. Right it will be dispatched tomorrow for you. So now its sit and wait for the box. But  the days of walking round the van waving a dustbin lid  trying to get a signal are hopefully over. It says simple installation so  we will watch this space.

11 th June 2011

Well the dome was working fine. But I tried to add a remote switch. Then I had all sorts of trouble. couldnt find a signal and the noise from the roof was horible grinding and crunching. I put it back on a short power lead and  its ok again. So  there is a motto If it aint Broke dont Fix it.

Update : I fitted a remote switch and its ok.

Update August 2012. Its worked trouble free untill a couple of months back when it  often didnt find a signal. I put it down to trees or line of site. But on rally  in Stratford recently a knock on the van door where a stranger asked How do you find your Dome. Ok I said. Thinking he was interested in buying one. Do you always get a good signal. Well  no  lately I said. Did you know the sattelite had been moved?. No I didnt. He said you need to update the software. Oh dear. He said I can do that for you in 2 minutes waving a small 4gig card. Well thats bloody good of you. So after a quick unscrew job to reveal a slot I didnt know was there he soon had it  updated. Now I just turn it on and bingo  TV. No long faces from wife. No walking round the Van like a VIking warrior with shield held high.

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