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Butch Bussen <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:09:01 -0700
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It is on propane, no natural gas here.  I don't know if I can justify 
it, but I'm on a c p a p machine at night and on an oxygen concentrator, 
so i really can't be without power.  It wasn't cheap, but works like a 
dream.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, Pat Byrne wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>
>

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