Saturday, December 7, 2013

December 6, 2013
Englewood, FL

Last March, we purchased a satellite dish and receiver from Camping World.  We were able to use a USB hard drive to record programs.  For some reason when we tried to record during the night we would only get a portion of the program.  We had called Dish several times trying to troubleshoot the issue.  Each and every time we spoke to someone they insisted that the particular model receiver we owned was not capable of adding an external hard drive. 
We patiently explain that we have been using an external drive for months!
A couple of months ago, during a call to Dish, the tech offered to swap out the receiver (for a $15 shipping fee).  We decided to hold off with the swap until we were in our winter site.
When we called Dish a few days ago, the tech offered to send us a new receiver and waived the shipping fee because of the amount of times we had called in to complain about the issue.
The new (it was actually a refurbished model) receiver was delivered today. 
 
 
 
 
 
Monte set it up while I went to the laundry room at the park. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
It is conveniently located next to the pool so rather than walk back and forth when it was time to put the clothes in the dryer, I stayed at the pool.

While I was at the pool, I met and got to know several residents.

 
 
Meantime, Monte was having a heck of a time trying to get the new receiver to recognize the hard drive. 
 
 
 
 
 
After spending several hours on the phone with Dish, he finally gave up and installed a new hard drive.  (That meant we lost all the programs we had on the old hard drive.)

As a test, we set up a couple of recordings on the new hard drive.  We were able to watch one of the recordings.  The real test of the new unit will be to see if it successfully records during the night so we set up a recording for 3AM.
A walk around the RV Park
Looking out to the right of our site-That is my blue car parked in the overflow parking area. 
This is the view looking toward the left out of our site.
Notice the narrow road- 
Our site from the road 
The short walk from our street to the laundry room and pool 
Shuffleboard 
Bocce 
The office 
The view from the end of the block walking towards our site.
 
 

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