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It could be an acceptable risk. Government owned vehicles have a stringent maintenance completed on them. I would say that it depends on your repair funds. If something does happen, it gets repaired, you enjoy a motel room and restaurant food for a few days.

You can count on it, see you at RTR in Jan. Bill

Condensation is always worse with propane heat. Not a lot that can be done about it unless you have enough  solar for electric heat. I did see one video where he changed over to wood heater and the condensation disappeared. For most of us,  we'll just have to deal with it.

A truckers radio is a cb radio, and No license is required. It is a 11 meter radio. All other frequencies that amateur radio uses require a license as well as written testing.

I'll  be coming out in Dec and I'll be listening in. I'm KC5ZQG. I normally use 146.52 simplex while traveling.

I'm a retired engineer. It would be best if you would ground it to the frame. That's the point that all your electrical is grounded to as well. Additionally  if it's left floating,  it's possible to cause you some problems for your vehicle if your trailer is connected to the vehicle.

Depending on your budget for batteries, it seems to follow that you get what you pay for. A lifeline 200 amp/ hr the last I checked runs about 700. You have to figure in shipping. Lifeline is made in the USA and hand assembled, but will last  10 years.

As an retired engineer I would like to add that you actually look and see how many watts each of your items are rated. This will be your watts/ hour you may need.  Like mentioned in above post your batteries should not be discharged below the 50% level.  If you have 100 amp/ hour batteries...

That's where I'll be starting as well,lol..i live in Fort Madison that I'll be leaving. Have several stops to do on the way to az.

look at wifi directional antennas

Wow, guess I better plan on at least a mile away from anyone then. Bet they wouldn't complain if there was free bbq. Cheers

I decided to head out in dec, Ill be living in a slide in truck camper. Just going to live free and say good by to the house. It really was not  Hrd decision when your only income is Social Security. Within time I intend to move to a van but it will be one I design myself. I come from an...

That directional antenna and the wifi booster would help a lot. Bob has a video as well as some links in his utube about it. I think its callled Mrboost which is a wilson brand.