I have a portable generator, it didn't run when I got it and with the rain I 
have yet to fix it but it's been diagnosed as a bad float in the carburetor. 
It's only a 5KW but we did lose power in the blizzard of 2013 this past 
winter and in a trailer, losing power for 36 hours is a nightmare at best. 
My generator may not run the whole house and in a trailer park the neighbors 
would kill me for running one full time anyway in a storm like that if they 
stayed but I figure, I'm told we're so far out on the power grid it doesn't 
take a whole lot to lose power out here so at least I have the option and 
for the price, I couldn't beat it. Gas won't be cheap but I wouldn't run it 
full time, just enough to keep things form freezing.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: Field Day Question


> Butch,
> Generator gas, propane, desil or natural gas?  Were I to have a
> backup generator here I'd probably opt for natural gas.  But in the
> five years we have lived in this house we have perhaps had ten hours
> of no power.  Can't justify the expense!
> Pat, K9JAUAt 05:28 PM 6/16/2013, you wrote:
>>If I wanted to do field day, all I'd have to do is go out and flip the
>>breakers and my 14kw generator would be purring away, could run 1e.  I
>>just don't get enthused any more. To fat and lazy I guess!!
>>73
>>Butch
>>WA0VJR
>>Node 3148
>>Wallace, ks.
>>
>>
>>On Sun, 16 Jun
>>2013, Steve Forst wrote:
>>
>> > John,
>> >
>> > You would be "1 E".  This is home station on emergency power and 1
>> > transmitter.  I usually run the home station off a battery at low power
>> > and sign "1E".  A home station on commercial power is "1D".
>> >
>> > 73, have fun, Steve KW3A
>> >
>> >
>