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1nana2many
Groupie Joined: 05 Apr 2018 Location: NE Kansas Online Status: Offline Posts: 62 |
Topic: Outside mounted speakers Posted: 27 Jun 2020 at 8:23am |
It’s not just you. You are not alone. I am retired. My husband is not. I watch the news early in the morning, mostly to see the weather report, then shut the TV off. My husband is the opposite. Five minutes after he gets home, the TV is on. He needs background noise even if he’s not watching. I used to come home from work, when I worked days and he worked nights and he’d be out in the garage with the radio on...I’d come in the house and the TV was also on. No one else was living here at the time. In January this year, he had open heart surgery and was off work until the middle of March. After a few weeks, I told him that I wasn’t sure he was ever going to be allowed to retire if I had to listen to TV ALL THE TIME! He has become much more considerate of my low tolerance for constant noise. He wants to retire next year! He no longer wonders if I’m mad at him if I wonder off to my sewing machine or get out my iPad while he watches television...40+ years of marriage...you kind of get used to each other’s quirks. I can survive a few hours of his background noise and he understands I just need some silence sometimes. The good thing is he agrees that we listen to the radio while driving, but not while camping. Once in a while we will throw a movie in the DVD player, but not often when camping. If in a busy campground, we can tolerate other people’s noise and just hope they will observe quiet time rules, but like others have mentioned, we choose remote, primitive camping over all the amenities more often then not. I would much rather hear the sound of a mountain stream rushing by then someone else’s choice of entertainment. Now if that darned yard light the neighbors installed after moving to the country from the city would just burn out permanently! It wouldn’t be bad but it’s the second light they have! Apparently listening to the coyotes scared them. I have resisted my strong desire to shoot it out for several years now...
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The mountains are calling and we must go...O.D., Keith & Jody
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6288 |
Posted: 27 Jun 2020 at 7:47am |
I've used the outside speakers while working on the 'Pod at home. As for while camping, the answer is no. We do use the outside light. Some of those campsites are dark. We have the amber light bulb and I don't add any additional outside lights. Some places look more like they are competing in a Christmas light decorating contest.
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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
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lostagain
Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2587 |
Posted: 27 Jun 2020 at 7:44am |
As far as I'm concerned, if you can hear your speakers outside of your own campsite, they're turned up too loud. If you want to have loud music/noise while camping, go somewhere where no one else will be bothered by it.
As for bright lights, they have no place in campgrounds that are not already illuminated by some kind of "street lights." The whole point of going to campgrounds without artificial lights is to enjoy the quiet darkness of the night. It's one thing to turn on canopy/porch lights in an RV park already illuminated so well at night that you can read your cable television contract's small print, but quite another when you are in an un-illuminated Forest Service campground in the boondocks. Just say'n. Hooray! We leave in a few hours for Hope Valley's Forest Service Campground. Spacious sites, quiet, darkness, beautiful location, and just over an hour away from home. https://www.campendium.com/hope-valley-campground
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offgrid
Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 27 Jun 2020 at 6:04am |
I also dislike having to listen to other camper's music choices (always bad in my experience) and deal with the glare from their outdoor lights. Not my idea of a natural experience to say the least. Makes camping feel like living in an urban apartment block. So, trying not to be a hypocrite, I don't blast my preferred music or use outdoor lights either. Of course, 90% of the other campers seem not to be bothered nor to care if they are bothering anyone, which is why I try to boondock in as isolated locations as I can. When I can't sometimes I'd like to have a directed beam EMP device (powered no doubt by podwerks' cold fusion energy source) with which to correct the problem.
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podwerkz
Senior Member Joined: 11 Mar 2019 Location: Texas Online Status: Offline Posts: 966 |
Posted: 26 Jun 2020 at 10:54pm |
And this new-fangled internet fad...you know that will never last! |
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RoverPod
Senior Member Joined: 07 Mar 2020 Location: Virginia Online Status: Offline Posts: 118 |
Posted: 26 Jun 2020 at 7:26pm |
I like both and use both outdoor speakers and outdoor lights.
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RoverPod
Senior Member Joined: 07 Mar 2020 Location: Virginia Online Status: Offline Posts: 118 |
Posted: 26 Jun 2020 at 7:25pm |
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mcarter
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 07 Apr 2016 Location: Greenbrier, TN Online Status: Offline Posts: 3419 |
Posted: 26 Jun 2020 at 7:13pm |
To each his own. I like to listen to the radio during the day outside of the RV, I like to watch my DVDs at night and I added motion sensity security lights to my RV, to tell me someone is outside and near:)
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Mike Carter
2015 178 " I had the right to remain silent, I just didn't have the ability." |
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crw8sr
Senior Member Joined: 12 Oct 2017 Location: Omaha Nebraska Online Status: Offline Posts: 328 |
Posted: 26 Jun 2020 at 7:01pm |
Is it just me? Am I alone? I abhor outdoor speakers, TV's and outdoor lights.
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Chuck & Lyn
Izzy, Morkie. RIP Zoe Joy & Gracie, Yorkie 2018 R Pod 190 2019 Traverse In moments of adversity;when life's a total wreck, I think of those worse off than me and really feel like heck. |
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Toyanvil
Senior Member Joined: 15 Feb 2019 Location: Bakersfield Online Status: Offline Posts: 157 |
Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 11:03pm |
One of my inside speakers started sounding like it was blown out, so I removed it to take a look and found a 4 inch screw stuck to the magnet. It had been moving around and cut up the foam which fell into the speaker filling it up with foam. Cleaned it all out and it sounds great.
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