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RV Podcast 185: What you need to know about your RV’s GPS System

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

Personal Journals, Leisure, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Automotive

4.7624 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we talk about the RV accessory that we probably complain about the most but also depend upon to get where we are going - the GPS navigation system. We talk to a top government GPS expert this week who explains how GPS works; how accurate and reliable it is, or isn’t; what system – the one in the dashboard or the one on your smartphone or tablet - is most accurate and what to do when it is not accurate. Also some spring cleaning ideas for your traveling tech, a great off the beaten path report from New Mexico, RV tips and your questions. Click the player below to Listen Now or scroll down through the show note details. When you see a time code hyperlink, you can click it to jump directly to that segment of the podcast. [spp-player] Show Notes for Episode #185 March 28, 2018 of Roadtreking - The RV Podcast: WHAT MIKE AND JENNIFER ARE UP TO THIS WEEK [spp-timestamp time="2:05"] Happy Easter everyone!  It's Spring Break and Easter Vacation time for much of North America this week and campgrounds are experiencing their first major rush of the 2018 camping season. We’re in Florida at our Emerald Coast Location on the Gulf of Mexico again after a great visit last week to Texas. And the first of two videos we did on that trip will go live tomorrow – Thursday April 29 – on our RV Lifestyle Channel on YouTube. It’s about our trip to Waco and all the fun we had there. Two of our three kids and five of our eight grandkids will be joining us over the weekend here at the beach to celebrate Easter so we’re looking forward to some fun family time. Then we hit the road again for what promises to be perhaps our busiest travel season ever. Though we’ve been busy all year so far. In fact we travel somewhere in our RV every month. Now…here are the top RV related stories that have interested us this week…. Rangers at Arizona's Saguaro National Park using microchips to thwart thieves  So many people are taking home a piece of Arizona's Saguaro National Park's famous saguaro cactus that rangers have started the unusual practice of micro chipping them. Yes, you read that right. Microchips are being inserted into the iconic plant that can grow up to 40 feet tall and live 200 years because selling them has become a lucrative market that is hurting the national park. Ohio buys 60,000 acres to develop new park, complete with camping We always like seeing stories about new state parks. Ohio announced its plans to buy 60,000 acres of privately owned land in the southeastern part of the state and turn it into the Jesse Owens State Park and Wildlife Area, complete with camping. The rolling hills and lake-specked land is owned by American Electric Power and was once mined for coal. In recent years the electric company allowed public use of the land, and a recent story we will link to in the shownotes presents an interesting picture of how one state is trying to preserve undeveloped land for future generations. Night sky educational programs to get even better at national parks Enjoy viewing the night sky in the nation's national parks? Your experience may be even a bit better this summer. The University of Texas-Austin's McDonald Observatory is creating a training program for park rangers to help them develop better night sky experiences for visitors. This portion of the Podcast is brought to you by Campers Inn, the RVer’s trusted resource for over 50 years, the nation’s largest family-operated RV dealership with 19 locations and growing JENNIFER'S TIP OF THE WEEK: An easy way to make eggs right every time [spp-timestamp time="13:00"] Kristi Gilson and her Egg Central Egg Cooker by Quisinart In this week’s tip, we meet Kristi Gilson, a new RVer, who recently showed us a gizmo she travels with in her RV that makes a perfect egg breakfast every time. The device Kristi showed us is called the Egg Central Egg Cooker by Quisinart. You use distilled water and it quickly cooks eggs just about any way you want from omelets to h...

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode number 185.

0:04.5

It's time for the RV podcast.

0:07.7

Traveling North America in an RV.

0:11.2

Exploring, camping, boondocking, embracing the RV lifestyle.

0:16.4

And sharing tips and where to go and how to keep things running right.

0:20.7

Here's award-winning journalist Mike Wendland and his network of RV reporters.

0:26.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Road Trekking the RV podcast.

0:31.7

I am Mike Wendland and as we always say, it doesn't make any difference what kind of an RV you have.

0:37.3

It doesn't make any of it's what the model is, whether it's a Class A, a Class B, a Class C, a pop-up, a fifth wheel, a trailer, whatever it is.

0:45.5

If you dry tent and camp in, you know, on the ground, that's okay too, because here we talk about all that,

0:53.2

getting out there and enjoying God's amazing

0:54.8

creation and meeting fun people and boondocking and discovering interesting places.

1:00.6

And of course, using the right gear in tech to enhance our RV lifestyle.

1:03.9

So welcome to another episode.

1:05.8

We're honored that you chose to put us in your ears this week.

1:09.5

And in this episode, we're going to talk about the RV accessory that we probably complain

1:16.0

about the most, but also depend upon to get where we're going, the GPS navigation system.

1:24.8

We talk to a top government GPS expert this week who will explain to us all

1:31.4

how GPS works, how accurate and reliable it is or isn't, as the case may be, what system,

1:39.8

like the one on your dashboard or the one on your smartphone or tablet, which is the most

1:44.8

accurate and what to do when it's not accurate. I think you'll find this a very interesting

1:49.1

discussion coming up a little bit later on in our interview of the week segment. Also, some

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