In article , Bill Horne
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It started on Saturday night, with a finger-poke and my wife saying
"Bill, the power is out". It ended at about three am today, when I
noticed that the streetlight was on and I went and threw the transfer
switch back to commercial power. I leaned a lot during the power
failure, and I invite comments and discussion to help other hams who are
preparing for the coming winter and for public service events.
1. Any fool knows you need extra matches around in the winter.
2. Don't put off electrical work that you're going to be
wishing you had done earlier if the power goes out.
3. Any widespread outage is going to tax _ALL_ the resources of
your community: gas stations, restaurants, and road-clearing.
Unless you have your own water, food, fuel, and the
capabilities to use them efficiently, your just a guy with
some extra stuff lying around.
4. It's no good to buy a small generator and think that it
prepares you for the winter. Without a proper setup and
regular tests, you wind up with a marginally useful device
that needs too much attention and provides
sub-standard capabilities.
FWIW. YMMV, and I hope it does.
73,
Bill, W1AC
Read your stuff, and it is a GREAT Story, of the Unprepared, trying to
fix things..... I would suggest that you get some good Surivial tips
over on
www.survivalmonkey.com, and some Generator Installation
information, over at
www.smokstak.com..... there are lots of folks over
there that have "Been there, Done that" and have fixes for all those
issues, from practical Experience.ome even in your area.
Just Say'en.... YMMV..... Bruce in alaska AL7AQ
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