Easter Weekend

[Polaris Overland]

Anyone heading away for the long weekend.

We will be up near Aviemore, Scotland staying at the Dalraddy Campsite, in the woodland pitches where it can feel kind of wild but with electricity and proper toilets.
The weather will dictate much of what we will be up to but it will include lots of walks around the area, mountain biking and we have the paddle boards.

If you are in the vicinity then feel free to drop me a message and we can meet up for a chat over Coffee, Beer or Toffee Vodka ;-)

 

[nickburt]

Unfortunately staying at home, but for an overland related reason - new roof tent being fitted and a revamp of solar power and Starlink wiring.

 

[El-Dracho]

Unfortunately staying at home, but for an overland related reason - new roof tent being fitted and a revamp of solar power and Starlink wiring.

Cool. What RTT did you choose? And you run Starlink on the rig? What are your experiences with it?

 

[nickburt]

Cool. What RTT did you choose? And you run Starlink on the rig? What are your experiences with it?

Changing from the fold out Tentco we've had for years (and it's still good for a few more - likely to end up on our son's LR S3 109) to a hard shell electric - because I'm getting too old to clamber about on the roof messing around with straps and covers etc... so gone for another South African make, an electric Bundutop with an annex

Starlink is a game changer. I work from home as an engineering consultant most of the time. Have worked on the road in the past, but always been reliant on decent cellular signals, or picking up free wifi. Starlink does away with all that and I have fast (100Mbps and above sometimes) internet as long as there's a reasonable view of a clear sky. It'll moan about there being obstructions, but it will drag enough signal in for most things, we don't spend hours streaming video or games - it's a working tool, so the hardest thing it needs to cope with is dragging documents to and from the cloud and the occasional Teams meeting. A highlight last years trip out to Greece was being able to watch the Queen's funeral up in the mountains of NW Greece, no cellular, no overhead obstructions and a download speed of over 100Mbps.
Last photo was on a campsite in France on the way home - despite being partly obscured by trees, I still managed a Teams meeting.

 

[El-Dracho]

Thanks for sharing your experience with Starlink and the pictures. Have fun this weekend assembling the roof tent.

 

[Polaris Overland]

Unfortunately staying at home, but for an overland related reason - new roof tent being fitted and a revamp of solar power and Starlink wiring.

Love to see the photos of the Starlink System once set up and even better if you could give some real world experience and costs.
For remote travel it is the future if you need comms and internet access allowing those who work on the road the ability to travel even further afield.

 

[nickburt]

Love to see the photos of the Starlink System once set up and even better if you could give some real world experience and costs.
For remote travel it is the future if you need comms and internet access allowing those who work on the road the ability to travel even further afield.

I'll put something together in the next few days.

 

[WoodcockFamilyOverland]

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Anyone heading away for the long weekend.

We will be up near Aviemore, Scotland staying at the Dalraddy Campsite, in the woodland pitches where it can feel kind of wild but with electricity and proper toilets.
The weather will dictate much of what we will be up to but it will include lots of walks around the area, mountain biking and we have the paddle boards.

If you are in the vicinity then feel free to drop me a message and we can meet up for a chat over Coffee, Beer or Toffee Vodka ;-)

We are off to the Peak District this weekend!

 

[Polaris Overland]

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Anyone heading away for the long weekend.

We will be up near Aviemore, Scotland staying at the Dalraddy Campsite, in the woodland pitches where it can feel kind of wild but with electricity and proper toilets.
The weather will dictate much of what we will be up to but it will include lots of walks around the area, mountain biking and we have the paddle boards.

If you are in the vicinity then feel free to drop me a message and we can meet up for a chat over Coffee, Beer or Toffee Vodka ;-)

We are off to the Peak District this weekend!

Are you just going yourselves, any laning ?

 

[WoodcockFamilyOverland]

Meeting some old friends that don’t have off road capable cars, but we will probably have a venture on to a couple of lanes on the way in and out haha

 

[Frontal]

Not up to much this weekend apart from getting the vehicle ready for our trip to Morocco in two weeks time.

Traction boards and extra fuel tanks already back on along with the rear storage unit.

 

[Polaris Overland]

Not up to much this weekend apart from getting the vehicle ready for our trip to Morocco in two weeks time.

Traction boards and extra fuel tanks already back on along with the rear storage unit.

Gotta to love a Morocco trip

 

[Polaris Overland]

All set up for the weekend

 

[nickburt]

Love to see the photos of the Starlink System once set up and even better if you could give some real world experience and costs.
For remote travel it is the future if you need comms and internet access allowing those who work on the road the ability to travel even further afield.

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