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If that is the case, does that leave the door open for a "SPORT" in the new 22' series ?

I guess we are all assuming that the "SPORT" will be a 17' modle in the Legacy series ?

Did I really hear what I thought I did ? The phone converastion went like this. "Hold on while I check to see if your part came in yet" CLICK, then instead of silence while on hold, I hear rustling papers, then footsteps. Then the hollow sound of an empty office. Two voices start to become louder as they approach, maybe coming down the hall way ? One voice is saying, "do you really think the new sport modle will be priced at just over 20K ?" The other voice replies. "maybe even in the low 20's ! " A door slams and voices greet each other, then the phone picks up, and I hear, "yeh, it came in, want me to ship it to you ?" Kind of stunned at what I had just heard, I reply somewhat lamely, "Yeh, please". Then get off of the line. I guess my question is this: Did I just overhear a conversation about a new Oliver modle ? Or were the voices discussing compact sports sedans ?

Welcome to the Oliver Forums wannabee !!

Welcome to the Oliver Forums Hugh McNichols !!

Another ORCC camper showed me how to set up a WLAN using the starcom 175 and we were able to feed all of the wifi laptops in camp from the single unit !

Later he was discovered resting up from his mighty battle ! Photo by JEEPIN' of ORCC Forums.

Finaly the unruly Bird had enough ! With a mighty "look, a rainbow !" He distracted me long enough to dissappear among the ORCC tent displays: Photo by JEEPIN' of ORCC forums

As the mock fight raged on amongst the vendors displays, it was touch and go for awhile. Photo by JEEPIN' of the OPCC Forums:

Post Event Update: We joined the forums and club, went to the Bass Pro Event in Springfield Missouri and had a great time ! It was a fine experience to be able to place faces with the names on the forums. We met and made some Great friends. The Springfield Cardinal mascot was there and having a ball with everything and everybody. I even saw him on the rock climbing wall ! In this photo we are making up, with one of those i'm cool, youre' cool handshakes, after a big mock fight amongst the event displays. Photo by JEEPIN' of the ORCC forums:

We are in Springfield Mo at the Bass Pro Festival. The lowest gas we have seen here is $1.86 .

We have been at Springfield Missouri for a couple of days now, for Bass Pro Shops Fall Festival. We are with the Off Road camping Club, camped on the banks of the James River, courtesy of the Bass Pro shops. On the trip up from Arkansas, we ran Microsoft Streets & Trips on the laptop simultanious with the starband 175ALA. It was cool to be able to surf the internet when we wanted to, without searching for a free wifi hotspot. We are posting this while boondocking in the Springfield Lake Park. Lots of deer here, they will nearly try to pick your pocket ! Met lots of new friends here. There was lots of intrest in the Ollie. Bass Pro,s photographer and other's took lots of photos. Wouldn,t it be cool to be in one of the publications ? We hope to find time to geocache some while here.

Welcome to the Oliver Forums Arnold !!

Geri, Happy Birthday !

Lookin' forward to the pix !

ORCC & Bass Pro Outdoor Fall Festival & Campout INFORMATION: CAMPING: Lake Springfield Park FEE: FREE the weekend of October 31st. - November 2nd. LOCATION: Campground entrance is directly across from the Boat House. CAMPSITES: Anywhere you like, there are no designated campsites. Please pull your camper in the location you choose, after you pick a site un-hook your camper/tent and pull your tow vehicle to the side of the grass area. HOOK-UPS: There are a few 110Volt Outlets available near the pavilion, you will need an extension cord to reach your camper/tent. Water is available from centrally located hydrant. Restrooms will be available at the boat house & Portable units in camp area. GATE ENTRANCE: There is a electronic gate at the park entrance, a code will be needed to enter the park after dusk. NOTE: Gate Code if needed please call (314) 852-5101 SKILLS VILLAGE: November 1st. - 9:00AM - 3:30PM LOCATION: In front of the Boat House, 2312 East Lake Springfield Park Road DISPLAYS: CAMPING GEAR: Hiking, Backpacking, Canoe/Kayak CAMPING STYLE: Tent, Car, Camper CAMPING THEME: How To Camp And Camp Safely CONTACTS: ORCC/Alan & Christine Young - (314) 852-5101 Springfield Park Fclts. Sprvsr./David Riggs - (417) 353-2527 Springfield Park Rec. Sprvsr./Melvin Johnson - (417) 353-7341 Springfield Boat House - (417) 891-1550 DIRECTIONS: MO. HWY 65 - Take the Evans road exit - Go west - Turn right onto (#188) E. Farm Road (Note: Evans road runs into E. Farm Road) - (Follow E. Farm Road for a while) Turn right onto S. Kissick Ave. (Note: E. Farm Road just kind of flows into Kissick to the right) Follow S. Kissick Ave. (Note: You will pass a Power Plant on your left and you will cross over the James River) Start watching on your right for the park entrance (Lake Springfield Park Road) Make a right through the entrance and follow the road approx. couple of miles, you will see the Boat House on your right and the entrance to the Camp Area on your left through two cyclone fence gates. Below A Web-link showing the Boat House and pictures of the par area. Click Here: Springfield Lake Park - http://www.parkboard.org/info/city_park ... d_park.htm Click Here: Slide Show Camping Area - http://outdoors.webshots.com/

Snow before Thanksgiving ! COOL !

Current list of those attending the Bass Pro Springfield Lake Outdoors skills Village: Members Names No. Youandi Alan & Chris 2 Outdoorxman Phil 1 Palleterra Jeff & Glenda 2 Keith Keith & Sue 2 Phonner Dave & Angela 2 MTPockets Kevin 2 Jeepin Rick & Kathy 2 Buffalobob Robert & Claudia 2 Mountainborn Larry & Betty 2 Colin Colin 1 > Should you be in the area, be sure to drop by and roast a marshmallow with us !

Noted that today there was one less bar of signal to use. Two bars instead of three. Ran the same tests over again. Similar results, but with the movie streams from HULU having considerable more hickups in them ( buffering ). The solution to that might be to let the laptop download the movie, (while we roast marshmallows), for later viewing, making line speeds less of an issue. We don't watch movies on line very often. We do however carry Netflix with us. The HULU movie streaming was just a simple test of line speed and useability.

I havn't plugged the telephone line back in ! It has been five days of internet use over the Starcom UM 175 ALA. The thing is quick. For all internet things that we do it is more than adequate. The only time I noticed it being slower than our land line DSL was when streaming down to our desktop, full length movies from HULU.com. The movies were watchable, but not totaly seamless and hickup free. So, if you are into online free movies, or you are a serious online gamer, the UM 175ALA might not be your way to go. When I plugged the UM175 into our Vista MOS laptop it recognized the device even quicker than it did on the Desk top Windows XP machine. With the UM175 plugged into the desktop PC, the laptop still connected to the WIFI modem and the UM175 was feeding internet to both the PC and the laptop at the same time. With the UM 175 plugged into the laptop the same was true of the desk top PC, both had internet through the wifi modem connected to the desk top PC. The next test will be to run the UM 175 while mobile in the Jeep towing the Ollie, enroute to the Springfield Bass Pro Outdoors Skills Village. We are nearly disconnected from telephone lines. We have put our home telephone and DSL on vacation rate to continue our test.

Chuck, you know we just gotta' do that !

Ok, will do. We have been following your blog with intrest. Those Navajo tacos sounded ever so good !

A short time ago I read, over on the Casita Club Forums, about the ORCC. Went over to their Forums, joined up, and began to read. I liked what I read and how they seemed to do things. I made a few posts, you know, my usual rednecky kind o' things. I recieved a warm welcome and began to feel welcome right away. It is a really good forum that is well maintained and is easy to read. Here is a link to it: They are having a Outdoors Skills Village as part of Pass Pro Outdoors Festival. Here is a paste from the ORCC forums: > Bass Pro and Springfield Parks Dept. will be setting up a campground for all ORCC members. The campground will be at the Springfield Lake Park. The park is right on the St. James River. Here are a few photo's of the park we will be using for this event. The Springfield Lake Park is normally only used for day use, but Bass Pro and the Springfield Parks Dept. is opening it for the entire weekend for all our members. The Bass Pro & ORCC Skills Village is with in walking distance of the camping area, the Skills Village will be held next to the Lake Boat House. Remember all ORCC members camp for FREE, how great is that! > Betty and I wanted to attend, but were having trouble scheduling days off to get it done. Finaly, today, we got it done, we will be going ! > Any one else that might be intrested ?

With a cell phone due for upgrade, we went shopping. We wanted to stay with Alltel because of good service localy. But more than that, with the upcoming Verizon merger looming on the horizon, and the extremely large coverage area that will provide, we also wanted that advantage. Ways to access the internet are constantly changing and prices vary with different modes and plans. Not only did we want to keep at least, our land line based DSL speeds, we wanted to improve line speeds and reduce cost as well ! Now that's a plan that is both greedy and agressive ! We liked it ! UPS arrived with the first package of cell phone type dodads. It didn't look like much. Small, light and mostly plastic. We had our doubts. It was the UT STARCOM 175ALA. I tried it on a 1.7 gig processor Windows XP machine first. The Windows Vista Laptop test will be later. The machine immediately found the USB device, auto loaded the self contained software and in a couple of clicks I was on the internet ! Speeds are a bit faster than our local DSL ! I have pulled the phone line from the back of the computer that I am making this entry from. The device has it's own cell phone number and can be simply plugged into any computer or laptop. The device has a external antenna jack that will also accept our cyfre cell phone booster for mobile operations. So far I am impressed with the UT STARCOM 175ALA. Testing is still underway. . . .

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