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18/9/2015 at 11:52am
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After spending many years in a tent laughing at the people in their shiny white boxes watching TV on a summers evening, we have recently bought a Caravan. Obviously we're not going to watch tv in it in july though.However, its September and we're going away and it'll be cold tonight so we'll be in the caravan anyway and Dr Who starts Saturday and my daughter likes x factor. So any way just as an experiment, given we have a tv ariel in the caravan anyway, I plugged a telly it And tried to tune it in on the drive. We got lots of channels but they keep breaking up. I assume this is a poor signal. We're using a ufo thing on the roof as an ariel. Its on my drive and my house gets a good signal. So 2 fold question,1) How do I fix it or is it just ufo ariels are rubbish and I need to by some fancy put outside contraption(which I probably wont do). 2) The whole point for us in camping is to get away from it all, so do I even want a TV in the caravan(Its only because its cold and we would never go in a tent in September anyway that I'm even thinking of it) Is it too far down the rocky road of ... Comfort leads to complacency, complacency leads laziness, laziness leads to the dark side hmmm.
(No offense meant if you thinking watching a TV in the summer is fine, I used to laugh at you, but you probably used to laugh at me getting up in the cold morning to goto the loo)
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18/9/2015 at 2:03pm
Location: Derby
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As a former tenter I really appreciate where you are coming from. We only take our TV when the nights are drawing in, as sitting outside in the cold (even in the awning), isn't enjoyable for us. So, for example, this October half term, the TV will be packed and used. Maybe Easter holidays too.
The rest of the year? It doesn't even go with us.
Extending the season with a tin tent is fantastic, but even before our evening meal it's cold and pitch black outside the van, and more often than not, somewhat damp. When we camped in a tent it was at least early evening, most of the time well past 8pm, before we hit that sort of environment, (as in dark).
PS I don't know if you're aware or not, but some sites (Caravan club for example) do supply a TV connection point on the EHU in areas where the signal is weak. This has a double bonus for those whose van ariels aren't great. You just need a 10/15m coax cable to connect to the post to the back of your TV or external TV point if you are lucky enough to have one, (we have a home made one in the battery box).
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