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Looking to purchase a satellite dish, does anyone have any advice. Looking at an Azure dish. Sounds easy, is it.

Noticed in today's Adelaide Advertiser that Burra and Moonta in South Aust are to be heritage listed. The Copper Triangle area is certainly worth a visit, Moonta in particular has many well preserved houses and public buildings from the era, as well as quite a bit of the mining infrastructure still s...

Hi folks, Looking for recommendations for a (mobile) Solar Guru here in Albany WA.

Can anybody help me with suggestions on making the A liner roof easy to raise. I am only small and have great difficulty.

I've been off line for a couple of days due to ISP issues & had a read through some of the posts. In one post I saw a town described as "I didn't want to stay at "abcdef" because it was perceived as "not interesting", or "no help was available", etc. On first impressions a lot of towns are in that category...

hello everyone. Can anyone recommend a good gps. Thanks

For anyone interested, Ctek have released a new DC-DC regulator with solar input, compatible with smart alternators. CTEK 250 SA Dual Cheers Pete -- Edited by wasn_me on Friday 5th of May 2017 09:06:35 AM

Hi All, newbie here. My caravan is under 2 tons so legally I am not required to have a break-away brake switch but I'd like to have one anyway.. It seems to me a break-away switch is just that: a simple switch. But unlike a normal switch the breakaway switch is turned on when the plunger is pulled away and be...

Recently I had trouble lighting my diesel heater it gave off a lot of smoke without lighting.i sent the heater back to pinnacles and they returned it to me saying that there was nothing wrong with it So i re installed the heater and had the same problem,after further investigation and being totally fr...

Just wondering if anyone has recently been to The Boulders near Babinda to please let us know if the bities are bad or tolerable. Kim

With Kim Jong un waving his sabre rattling sword and saying he can nuke northern Australia is there a wave of nomads heading south for the winter? This Korean conflict is scary.

Hi all We are setting off on our trip around Australia next week and was thinking about fitting a grey water tank underneath the van. After looking at some of the van sites around Australia, there are quite alot of self contained only!!! After chatting to a guy at Bunnings yesterday, he said self...

We brought a brand new caravan 6 and half years ago. We have just realized after weighting when packed with the water tanks full and full gas bottles we are over the allowable ATM weight, this does not allow us much for food and clothes. I have contacted the manufacture and they are no help, I have b...

Do you know that Prince Phillip is the only surviving Australian Field Marshall for the Army?? The highest rank! I would like to give him a 'high five' for all the hard yakka he has put in the last 70 something odd years. Helen

"Yep" Mine's the same !!!! K.J.

Ya gotta love the little helpers !!! K.J.

After being married for 50 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said, "Fifty years ago we had a cheap house, a junk car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 23-year-old girl. Now ... I have a $750,000 home, a $45,000 car, a nice big...

1 hour to liftoff 8.5 hours in cattle class then two weeks R n R in the philippines we have a wedding to attent tomorrow, looking forward to it and a few coldies too . Woody n Sue

....after dropping the twins off at 'THE' Beach. I am here until probably September so if you are around and would like to catch up just send up a smoke signal in PM language and I will see it. Keep Safe on the roads and out there.

well it has been a while since i posted on this forum hopefully we will be on the road in a couple weeks finally , and have been perusing this site on all subjects and the different views that people have , it has been good , we will be travelling with a camper trailer for longer stays at our prefered places an...