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can anyone suggest the best dish and system to buy obviously digital as the analogue will be phased out i will be doing a lot of bush camping ease of setup and signal tuning is important any suggestions would be welcomed

Boy am I going for it today,so much valuable advise for a brand new comer. On the specs inside the boot it states 195R14 Pressure 350. Our max load is 2.5 ton The tyres that are on the van are 195R14C 8 ply light truck Max dual load 900 kgs . As I read it the max weight is 900x2= 1.8 which means that the tyres are...

Hi everyone, if you are on the road full time with no aircon. where are some cool towns in summer? thanks.

i am told the thetford while being slightly smaller is better because it has a fan at the back and is better in the tropics any feedback would be welcomed

My partner went from Hervey Bay to Brisbane today.Luckily she got through OK. I just checked out the Qld Alert site a few minutes ago.The Bruce Highway through Gympie is closed at Deep creek with water over the road. I know the bridge there and normally it's around 50'-60' down to the creek. That's deep...

Hi all, I've started my Big Lap with a ferry crossing and quick run up the Newell Hwy et al to Brisbane. Along the way I picked up a hitchhiker of the rodent variety! Looked about in Brisbane for rat traps but they are sold out of the traditional (cheap) variety so opted for an expensive one but by then he/...

Finally sold our Jayco Hawk to a lovely couple reasonably local. We put it in Gumtree about two weeks ago, had a few tyre kickers and then a lovely couple rang to look and ended up taking her for us. I told them about this forum so hopefully they join. Also gave them our Camps 5 as they had heard of the book but...

Over the last couple of weeks, Chi Chi (Mel) and I have had the pleasure of meeting up with some other "Grey" Nomads. Bill12 called in for a cuppa, having driven many k's out of his way enroute to Greens Lake; and today we met rrox (Richard and Felicity) at the Botanic Gardens coffee shop. New f...

Some friends of ours have just bought themselves a new dog, and asked for suggestions with names. We suggested they call it "Dick". (see photo) Daryl & Sylvie

can anyone help by river or sea would be good

Anybody in Tassie for the Pennyfarthing races at Edith Vale tomorrow. If so where are you staying?

anyone stayed at the granite gorge van park out fron mareeba ?

Apart from the ski boats on the Murray it is way to quiet here at Psyches Bend near Mildura. Just for a bit of fun, where is everyone tonight? Free camping? Caravan Park? House sitting? At home dreaming or planning?

Hi to everyone from us (David and Cheryl) We are new to the forum but have been watching for a little while. We have decided to make the big jump and sell up and become full time nomads. Our decision was an easy one as the GLW (good lady wife) is not as well as she used to be. We have our house on the market, found...

There has got to be more than a worm on a line and patience.......surely and i think i read somewhere a licence is needed. HELP! dawa

If all the dinosaurs had had a wide vocabulary, maybe they would have survived....like the Thesaurus

It's been raining almost constantly in SEQ for the past couple of days. Cooroy is copping a beating, poor b.uggers. More than 214.8mm today alone. Gympie is on flood alert. The Mary River is ready to burst it's banks...again!

I don't think they are poisonous but can't they strangle things. My son in Biggenden arrived home tonight with the kids to find a 2 metre long python out the front of the house. The kids stayed in the car till he got rid of it. Scared it off to the neighbours who is away at the moment. He said there are heaps of...

We are Evans Hds heading to the Murray on the Pacific Hw any hints on free overnight stays would lov some help , thanks.