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
>> >
>> >
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