Is LDs phone line obsolescent? November 22, 2008, 08:07:48 pm Yahoo Message Number: 97470It occurs to me that the "phone line" installed in the LD at considerable expense and more so in labor than parts is not used by me or anyone I've seen. The only possible reason for it nowadays would be for an LD used as a mobile home of the trailer park variety. In these days of cell phones, air cards, etc., campgrounds no longer provide phone outlets. I would propose that the Mothership quit installing these phone lines. Instead, if anything, they could install a second coax line to the back of TV area that could be used for other purposes, e.g. portable satellite dish or in combination with a highjacked Cable cable used for satellite internet connections. The question to the community is "Does anyone still use the LD's phone line?" I vote for LD to move into the present and at least save a few bucks!Alex Rutchka, SE #4 '05 MB
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #1 – November 22, 2008, 09:02:39 pm Yahoo Message Number: 97471"I would propose that the Mothership quit installing these phone lines. Instead, if anything, they could install a second coax line to the back of TV area..."I've been thinking along the same lines, Alex. I don't know anybody who has ever plugged a Lazy Daze into a landline (hardwired) phone at a campground. As you say, that's for long-term trailer park residents. A second coax jack would be MUCH more useful, in my humble opinion.How about it, folks--anybody else using that outside phone jack?Andy Baird http://www.andybaird.com/travels/
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #2 – November 22, 2008, 09:04:27 pm Yahoo Message Number: 97472Quote "It occurs to me that the "phone line" installed in the LD at considerable expense and more so in labor than parts is not used by me or anyone I've seen..."Does anyone still use the LD's phoneQuoteline?""Alex Rutchka, SE #4 '05 MB AlexIn a word, yes! However, that comes with a caveat, if I could, I would!Let me explain. My former SOB was a 30' Holiday Rambler 'AlumaLite' travel trailer. I carried a phone instrument with me when we traveled in that RV. When I acquired the LD, the phone came over. Even though I've stayed at RV Parks which had provisions for a phone hookup there were other considerations. Most parks that have the hookups want you to make arrangements with the local phone company for service. This may involve as much as a week just to get service connected without considering the details of paying the bill. No parks I've stayed at have 'instant' phone service, they just don't want the hassle.So, again, I would if I could.Steve S. Lazy Bones & Jiggs
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #3 – November 22, 2008, 09:21:58 pm Yahoo Message Number: 97473Quote How about it, folks--anybody else using that outside phone jack?Andy Baird http://www.andybaird.com/travels/ We picked up our 04 MB in Spring of 05 and had it officially turned over to us in Las Vegas at Silverton Casino/ RV park. It was the only time that we hooked up the phone line to make use of the computer modem. Since then, the jack has been vacant and un-used. Just another hole in the wall, I guess.... John White
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #4 – November 22, 2008, 09:22:28 pm Yahoo Message Number: 97474We bought a phone when we acquired our LD (in 2005) and that phone has never been out of the box!!!!! I can think of only one campground that had a phone connection, but it wasn't readily available. Besides, we have cell phones.John and Linda Prescott, AZ and Larkspur, CO__
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #5 – November 22, 2008, 09:27:18 pm Yahoo Message Number: 97475There's a phone line?Joanne
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #6 – November 22, 2008, 09:36:25 pm Yahoo Message Number: 97476Yes, Joanne there is a phone line! On the outside, right next to the TV cable connection is a socket to connect your LD to a "land line". On the inside, in my case ('05 MB) under the dinette table is a socket to connect a phone. There's obviously wiring between the two phone sockets.Alex Rutchka, SE #4
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #7 – November 22, 2008, 10:50:11 pm Yahoo Message Number: 97479What's a "phone line"?Smitty
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #8 – November 22, 2008, 11:34:09 pm Yahoo Message Number: 97481Nope. I also think the one under the dinette is pretty useless as well. Another vestige from a time long since passed.bumper
some campgrounds provide DSL internet connection via the phone conne Reply #9 – November 22, 2008, 11:36:49 pm Yahoo Message Number: 97482Quote Yes, Joanne there is a phone line! On the outside, right next to the TV cable connection is a socket to Quoteconnect your LD to a "land line". On the inside, in my case ('05 MB) Quoteunder the dinette table is a socket to connect a phone. There's obviously wiring between the two phone sockets.Alex Rutchka, SE #4On Nov 22, 2008, at 10:27 PM, joanne0012 wrote:There's a phone line?Joanne
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #10 – November 22, 2008, 11:47:53 pm Yahoo Message Number: 97483That's news to me, I've had 2 LDs and never even saw the phone line. Maybe that's because I didn't look for it, and maybe that's because I didn't need it. Where is it? MariQuote It occurs to me that the "phone line" installed in the LD atThe question to the community is "Does anyone still use the LD's phone
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #11 – November 23, 2008, 12:42:06 am Yahoo Message Number: 97484This question is really interesting because when we last had a motorhome we used the phone connection a LOT for dial-up internet. Apparently, everyone is now using their cell phones or satellite for internet service. Dial-up is slow, but it was free.Dick
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #12 – November 23, 2008, 01:18:09 am Yahoo Message Number: 97486Yes, we did use our phone line occasionally, for dialup access for the computer and for calls within an RV park (site to site calls) the first couple of years with our '02 LD, but not recently. The LD's phone line probably is obsolescent. We're now using the cheap phone we carried in the LD in our house. That landline may go away, too.Sharon N.Crossville, TN
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #13 – November 23, 2008, 06:13:58 am Yahoo Message Number: 97487Quote How about it, folks--anybody else using that outside phone jack?Andy Baird http://www.andybaird.com/travels/ Andy I have never used my phone jack. But I did have to install a second coax cable for a portable DSS antenna. John Beckman
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #14 – November 23, 2008, 06:49:26 am Yahoo Message Number: 97488I paid $75 extra to install one under the dinette table in my 2001 MB. I have never used it either! Steve Chandler, CLPF, NCG California Licensed Professional Fiduciary #PF44 National Certified Guardian phone:650-344-3233 fax:650-344-3833 www.chandlerelderservices.com[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #15 – November 23, 2008, 08:28:24 am Yahoo Message Number: 97489Not ever in the A/Bus, either. Hardwired phonejax are useless appendage now.Gary Allen '98 Allegro Bus Williamsburg, VA "Life in the (Wireless) Bus Lane" One site has it all. Your email accounts, your social networks, and the things you love. Try the new AOL.com today!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212962939x1200825291/aol?redir=http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp %26icid=aolcom40vanity%26ncid=emlcntaolcom00000001)[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #16 – November 23, 2008, 08:54:40 am Yahoo Message Number: 97490QuoteI've been thinking along the same lines, Alex. I don't know anybody who has ever plugged a Lazy Daze into a landline (hardwired) phone at a campground. The only time we've ever used the telephone jack in any RV we've owned was when we first started fulltiming in 1998 and had a dialup ISP (before the days of air cards and WiFi). We'd occasionally find RV parks with instant phone hookups and we'd use it then for connecting to the Internet. Oh, I remember the days of hauling my laptop down to some central place in an RV park to download email...which was the only thing you could do since, in many cases they had to unhook either their credit card machine or their fax machine in order to use it. Even if there was a central place away from the office for hooking up a computer, there was only one line shared by everyone in the RV park, so you couldn't spend any time surfing, just downloading email which you read and responded to back at the RV and hauled it down to where ever again to send email.Linda Hylton http://map.datastormusers.com/user1.cfm?user=1167 http://earl-linda.blogspot.com/
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #17 – November 23, 2008, 09:00:49 am Yahoo Message Number: 97491Instead, if anything, they could Quoteinstall a second coax line to the back of TV area that could be used for other purposes, e.g. portable satellite dish or in combination with a highjacked Cable cable used for satellite internet connections. When we ordered our Lazy Daze, we ordered their option for a satellite TV dish on the roof, but we also had them put in an external hookup so that we could use a portable TV dish. They couldn't understand WHY we wanted that, but after insisting that we DID want it, they installed it. That extra hookup came in handy when we were camp hosting at Pit River Campground and were parked in the trees...if it hadn't been for our portable satellite TV dish and that external hookup, we would have spent 3 months without TV. We also had Lazy Daze install the external and internal hookups for our HughesNet satellite Internet dish.Linda Hylton http://map.datastormusers.com/user1.cfm?user=1167 http://earl-linda.blogspot.com/
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #18 – November 23, 2008, 10:10:14 am Yahoo Message Number: 97492wrote:There's a phone line? --- Yep; on my rig, it's next to the cable TV connection. I clean the spider webs out of each of these periodically.Joan
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #19 – November 23, 2008, 11:30:53 am Yahoo Message Number: 97493If my 82 has a phone jack I haven't noticed it.Michelle http://safoocat.blogspot.com/ http://flickr.com/photos/safoocat/
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #20 – November 23, 2008, 03:42:37 pm Yahoo Message Number: 97498Hi Andy,As a volunteer in a National Park, we would have difficulty getting along without a phone line. While volunteering it is our access to phone contact during the three months that our rig is not near a cellphone tower. We also get high speed internet service through the phone line. For people like us who do volunteer while living in their Lazy Daze, a phone line should at least be offered as an option. This also could be the case of Work Campers in remote areas.Ginny and Jim Herrick
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #21 – November 23, 2008, 08:19:18 pm Yahoo Message Number: 97503"There's a phone line?" As others have pointed out, it's an option, so not all rigs have it.Andy Baird http://www.andybaird.com/travels/
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #22 – November 24, 2008, 08:58:30 am Yahoo Message Number: 97512QuoteAs others have pointed out, it's an option, so not all rigs have it. That's surprising to hear! I don't remember the phone jack being on the list of options when we ordered our 2004 Lazy Daze, and we certainly wouldn't have ordered it if it was. Nevertheless, our LD came with a telephone jack.Linda Hylton http://map.datastormusers.com/user1.cfm?user=1167 http://earl-linda.blogspot.com/
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #23 – November 24, 2008, 09:19:37 am Yahoo Message Number: 97514"Linda & Earl Hylton" wrote: I don't remember the phone jack being on the list of options when we ordered our 2004 Lazy Daze, and we certainly wouldn't have ordered it if it was. Nevertheless, our LD came with a telephone jack. ----- The phone jack was also 'just there' on my 2003, and, AFAIK, it was standard equipment, not an option. I know that I didn't select the jack from any option list, and I've also never used it.Joan
Re: Is LDs phone line obsolescent? Reply #24 – November 24, 2008, 01:51:24 pm Yahoo Message Number: 97519Sounds as if the outside phone jack may have been an option for some years, but then became standard... as has happened over the years with items like the generator and air conditioner. :-)Andy Baird http://www.andybaird.com/travels/
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