Internet on the Road - What is your setup?

[turf]

finally road tested my setup and i was real happy with the way it worked. i thought i'd have the side view camera like a mirror, but even though that wasnt the case, it wasnt useable while i was driving. the screen was hanging on the wall behind me where i just couldnt see it. if i got another screen by the speedo or something it might work but it wasnt the setup i thought it would be. i went to a star party, set up my scope and was running windows remote desktop between my bus and the scope. as far as a working network, it was great.

 

[nikitis]

@turf, why is there a handle above your windshield there? Never seen that before.

 

[turf]

there is a foot hold in the bumper too. if you are short, you can stand on the foot hold and hang on the handle and wash the window. i had to find out too when i got the bus. it is a convenience feature.

 

[nikitis]

Ah, I have a foot thing too on the bottom corner of my bus cab where it meets the front hood, but no handle above it like on yours. I feel jipped.

 

[Rwnielsen]

Starlink. $165/mo.. Both expensive and power hungry.

 

[desrtdog]

Elon is making up for the bath he’s taking in the rolling dumpster business (aka cyber truck)

 

[Cheezewhiz]

Ah, I have a foot thing too on the bottom corner of my bus cab where it meets the front hood, but no handle above it like on yours. I feel jipped.

I added motorcycle pegs to my rear bumper, so I can crawl in the engine bay better.

You can add handles!

 

[turf]

right now i'm only paying $130/ month for 2 starlinks. $120 for the home, the second starlink (rv) is only $10/month for a 10gig limited plan. enough for a weekend or so.

you can change your plan on the fly and add or just pay for overage or opt out of overages

 

[Mr P]

turf, I find it interesting that you star gaze and use starlink. What do you and fellow gazers think about the chain of starlink satellites traversing the sky?

 

[turf]

you sure hear people curse about them but i dont think it affects the hobby much. taking pics of satellites has become a sub hobby in all of astronomy. you can catch decent pics of the ISS or tiangong as they go overhead your house about every 3 weeks at dusk.

most satellites are only visible around sunset or sunrise, when they are illuminated and you are not.

airplanes have lights and interfere with taking pics if you are near a big town or in airtraffic lanes, but the photography software just rejects a photo if it gets photobombed by a an airplane, so you may lose 20 seconds of a stack, but unless you are air traiffic, you'll never notice except in the statistics of how many sub photos stack and how many rejects you get at the end of a photo session.


my main targets are planets, so the patch of sky i photograph is so tiny, the chance of being photo bombed is slim. a single plane trail in a stack of 2000 pics gets averaged out and disappears.

if interested......
here is a link to the stacked, but unprocessed photos of the star party night

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turf

 

[nikitis]

Only the first batch of Starlink has polluted the sky. 2nd batch and future batches are now painted a matte black all over as to not pollute the sky any further. You won't see any new ones. People complained and Elon listened.

 

[Mr P]

Seeing Starlink is....surreal. Knowing that China is doing the same thing (and Amazon, maybe)...there are soon to be thousands of gadgets up there...unreal....I want a cave in Alaska.

 

[turf]

fortunately, with china, starlink and amazon, now you can live comfortably in a cave in alaska

 

[nikitis]

Well..... once Amazon launches drone delivery in Alaska you can.