It's good that I went camping this week, apparently there was a big hail storm Thursday night in the Metro Denver area. Got an email from the storage yard people where I normally store the RV and there was apparently damage to multiple rigs there!
About the Sony telephoto lens that I found to have a rattling noise Friday; all is not lost perhaps. More to follow as I experiment with the field expedient solution I'm testing over the next few days.
Saturday was spent puttering inside the RV doing chores and small modifications to accommodate the ingress of the Startlink cable and the propane gas line for the catalytic heater.
Heavy rain sometime overnight, woke me briefly.
Sunday, June 2
After breakfast, I started working on the roof of the VRRV to ensure the waterproof conditions for the connector linking the two solar panels.
For now, I will use a small Tupperware container to keep the rain off the connector:
After this task, I moved the starlink dish (aka dishy in the SL community) onto the roof and worked out how to secure it in case of high winds.
Previous testing had confirmed what I had read online, that the Gen 3 dish works while laying flat. Ran some tests, here's a representative example of the speeds achieved this morning:
Not too shabby eh? More than enough for our internet access speed requirements.
The starlink app reports that the dish is misaligned but otherwise it works fine.
Rotated to the north.
Here's a view of the rooftop this morning:
I turn and rotate the solar panels to maximize perpendicular exposure to the sun as it moves about the sky during the day.
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