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Hello All, We've moved Heartland Owners Forums to a new hosting provider. The new provider should be considerably more stable, and likely faster too. Please keep an eye out for any anomalies and let us know if something seems out of sorts. One known issue: During the migration, we lost 21...

The officially branded Heartland Owners Chat (HOC) has been seeing very little use in recent months. On top of this, we have the integrated chat within the forum now (The little bar at the bottom of your window on every page) which also supports group chat ( 'ChatRooms', 2nd icon from the left...

This post relates to a vulnerability in an open-source software package used to provide secure web-site serving (https) among other server communication products, commonly referred to as 'heartbleed'. We are pleased to announce that while we do use Apache and OpenSSL for encrypting all payment...

Hello all... Tonight, I was performing some additional cleanup from our recent 'Server too busy' issues. Part of this cleanup involved rebooting the server. Unfortunately, a typo in a critical configuration file lead to the server not booting back up correctly. I was able to guide our...

Hello everyone, Today, I'd like to announce an initiative to make the Heartland Owners Forum more accessible while you're away from the larger screen of your Desktop or Laptop computer. That's right... Heartland Owners Forum is GOING MOBILE! But wait... You have multiple options! **...

After enjoying full-timing for just over four years, we are looking to spread out a bit more and the space of a stick and brick place is appealing. But, alas.. we need to sell the Truck and RV to make it work. We LOVE the setup and hope that someone else can appreciate this deal and enjoy it as...

Hello All, The Heartland Owners Position product now supports using your web browser's 'Location Services' to pin-point your location on the map. Any modern smart-phone supports this as well, so you can easily check-in to your new location. Also most modern web browsers support this feature...

Hey All, We just completed a forum software upgrade this morning. As usual, please let us know if there's anything out of sorts. One quick note about a new feature of the upgrade. We now have Auto-Save within the editor! You'll notice a little yellow message at the lower right corner of...

Hello All, Over the years of operation and expansion of both Heartland RVs and the Heartland Owners Forum, we've continued to add sub-forums as appropriate to house new discussion topics as they arose. The issue is that we've been doing so without restructuring along the way which has...

Hello All, We'd have a few reports of issues changing changing avatar's on the forum. I found the issue and corrected it just a moment ago ( as evident by my new avatar ). Sorry for the inconvenience this has caused. Quick links: Change your Avatar -- The picture everyone sees next to your...

Hello All, We are doing a trial run of a new Ask the Factory process. Our goal is to provide more complete actionable data to the Factory reps so that they can provide quicker and more accurate responses to the original poster. To that end, we have configured the Bighorn and Landmark ATF...

Hello All, Today, our hosting provider suffered a catastrophic failure of the hardware which was hosting the Heartland Owners Forum. The forum was just recently returned to full service ( it was up for a minute on an old instance of data which caused posts since August to be missing ). We...

Hello All, You can now find the Google Search box under the 'Advanced Search' sub-menu at the top. This sub-menu item is directly under the normal search box. When you click on 'Advanced Search' a popup menu will appear that has a link to the normal 'Advanced Search', but also has a Google...

Hello All, Well, it took a few weeks, but we finally got HOP back online. And, with the much delayed 'Address Lookup' feature added as well!! If you've not been in the past day or so, head on over to //heartlandowners.org/hop.php and give the newly revised software a whirl. All your old...

Hello All, I have set a new style for viewing posts on a trial basis to get feedback. If you notice, the information about the person who posted the thread or post is now on the left of the post instead of being spread across the top the way it had been. We are interested in getting any...

Hello all, I've updated the Heartland Owners Gallery to function properly again with the new forum software. The link is under the 'Tools' menu item above if you've not been. Thanks, LK

Hello All, As Jim mentioned in his last email update to everyone, the makers of the software on which this forum runs have made a major revision. In effort to keep up with new security fixes as they come along, refresh the look / feel of the Heartland Owners Forum and for better flexibility...

Morning all, We wanted to inform everyone of the outage that was experienced from late last night ( approx 10pm EST to 1am EST ). We've received word from our hosting provider that this was due to a failure in their Redundant Power Systems ( that which is supposed to keep things running in...

You can watch the Rally LIVE from the ECCC center. You can use this link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/heartlandrally NOTE: This webcast is dependent on the campground's WiFi connection, which at this time is a bit spotty. Please try again if it seems that we are offline. Thanks, LK

Hey guys... I made a change to HOC today that *should* have fixed the issue people were having using the web client. I'd love to hear how things go. Hopefully, it'll work fine now. As a side benefit to this change.. it may even be more stable ( i.e. fewer kick outs / lock ups ). All...

Hello All, As some of you already know, I'm the proud new owner of a 2007 Dodge Ram 3500 4x4 with all the trimmings... Except... the Hitch! So.. I've started this thread not to ask which hitch to get.. ( I've already decided on the 18k Reese Signature Series ), but to find out if I really...

Hi All, We've recently completed an upgrade of the forum software. There are some new features / layout changes here and there.. Below are some highlights... 1. Tagging! Ok, what's this mean.. Well, When you start a new thread, if you look directly below the Message window, you'll see a...

We moved to the new host just before they had a major failure of their file storage system. The slowness and outages is due to the recovery/restoration process that is going on behind the scenes. We have been working very closely with the new host to ensure this is resolved as quick as...

We are bringing online our latest addition to the Heartland Onwers online family.... Heartland Owners Position This area is setup to help share your current location with other Heartland Owners. Again, it is only accessible by registered members. For a quick 'How To' on getting your position...

We are bringing online our latest addition to the Heartland Onwers online family.... Heartland Owners Gallery (HOG for short) This area is setup for forum members to be able to share Heartland and RV related photos. The HOG is only accessible by registered members of the forum. Please use the...

Hello Heartland family.. I'd like to take this moment to formally announce the "Experimental" launch of the Heartland Owners Chat. You can access it HERE. On that page, you will be presented with a terms of use that must be agreed to prior to entering the room. These terms of use are...

Hey gang, We've had some interest expressed in changing the date/time stamp that's present at the top left corner of the posts. The options are listed below: The current configuration is 'Detailed'. The 'Yesterday / Today' option will show the 'Normal' format for any post older than...

All, Today we made a global change on the forum. This change will affect how the system keeps track of which forum posts you've read. The old way: Once a user has been inactive for a certain amount of time, all threads and forums are considered read. Individual threads are marked as read...

Yep.. hard to believe.. but after having my Landmark for almost a month, I've finally taken my first picture from the outside. The occasion? The weather finally permitted me to wash my other toy.. ( the Charger ). So, here it is! (Yes, it's a night shot. I wish the camera would catch it the...

The following assumes you will be using a portable satellite and NOT installing a roof mounted version. Also, I realize that pictures would help tremendously. I PROMISE I'll get some pictures for this post shortly. Desired Connections: 2 Satellite connections in both the Living Room and...

Well, it's 4:32am. 12 Deg F outside with wind chill of -4. Got woke up by the Mrs at about 3:45am cause the water wouldn't run in the bathroom. So, I went outside, and realized I was a dumb as... and hadn't insulated the city water valve. A few minutes w/ the hair dryer and all was well...

Hi All, I just picked up my 08 Landmark Augusta on Saturday. Seems that someone who looked at the unit prior to me took off with the manual, so the dealer has ordered a new one and will be shipping it to me. In the mean time, I did some exploration and testing and came up with the following...

Hi All, Thanks for all your help in my previous thread ( Pre-owner questions ). Thanks to Brent Hoffman at RVPriceBusters.com for a GREAT deal and for coming out in what turned out to be one heck of a snow storm to finish things up at the Springfield, OH lot. Since we don't have a 5er Hauler...

Hello All, First, I'd like to say how much I greatly appreciate such an informative forum. The fact that Heartland proper is involved is just the icing on the cake. I'd like to get some feedback from both the valuable Heartland community as well as the Heartland Reps that frequent the forums...