I do not see it as an over-reaction.  You are looking to be prepared 
for next time.  Most normal people call that good sense.  But you are 
not most normal people.  You are a ham.  The laws of nature and 
nerddom therefore requires that instead of buying some silly half 
solution, you have to cobble together something monstrous, large, 
completely overkill, and just plain fun.  *grin*

I want something like that too, but if I tried to build something 
like that with big honking batteries and wires everywhere, the YL 
would...  Erm, wait, the YL would never notice I had done anything at 
all different.  *laugh*

73,

Joseph - KF7QZC


On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 08:09:45PM -0400, Kevin Minor wrote:
>Hi Howard.
>
>I don't lose power often here.  In fact, until Saturday night the longest
>that I'm aware of power being out was a few seconds.  Saturday the power was
>out for four hours.  Perhaps I'm over reacting, but I'd like to have radios
>and other stuff work while the power's out.
>
>Thanks for your advice.
>
>Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY
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