Hi Wendell, Every source of service of any kind is subject to failure. Natural gas is a heavy hitter here - in widespread use. I started paying attention to service outages, availability, and costs

We have at least one natural gas compression station near us. It is located away from towns. I believe the compressors may run on natural gas (taken from the line), but will have to check to make

I'll be using the Cyclone on 7122 in the morning about 8-8:15 or so. Hope to work a bunch of Four Staters with it. It's plugging along nicely and is a joy to use. cu

Ge Gary Thanks for the Qso! I was trying to scoot away from where Terry was ! Your Ns 40 sounds nice. 72 HNY Johnny AC0BQ -- QRP....."more smiles per watt"

Terry, your Cyclone sounded good. Running my NS-40 @ 7W. You had trouble getting my call-lots of QRN. Will try to get into the net tomorrow nite. Gary/KF7WNS

Calling CQ. ---------------------------------- Back to the bench, Winter's too valuable to waste. I love this radio stuff ! 72 WA0ITP www.wa0itp.com www.4sqrp.com

It is sort of like being on the grid, or not. You are far better off not being on the grid. Every thing has it's own fate. Shawnr kf7yff

I was thinking about long term emergency situations. I assumed that natural gas via pipelines would be reliable, but if the pipes must be pressurized for the system to work, perhaps the pumps that

On 12/30/2013 2:20 PM, wmorrill@... wrote: Question - Do natural gas lines ever shut down? Are they pressurized with air,

Natural gas uses compressors to maintain the line pressure, those compressors require electricity to pump but they have backup systems in case electrical power fails. You would never ever want air

Question - Do natural gas lines ever shut down? Are they pressurized with air, and if so, how reliable are the pumps? Wendell

The gensets at work are all scheduled to exercise approximately 30 minutes each week. They are fueled by propane so condensation or fuel degradation isn't the issue. They are monitored by an alarm

Hi, My experience with "emergency" or "alternate" power sources fits right in. Use it or lose it. I went shares with a brother-in-law on a nice generator unit and he kept it at his home - where it

i was under the impression on Generator periodic Starts was to keep condensation as well from forming , and was told to keep the tank full thru winter by a mechanic to help this . Just FYI , will have

A card with "proper" serial ports will cause you much less heartache in the long run. I tried the PS/2 path and gave up before i got ulcers! I believe they are quite inexpensive. Why give up XP? I

Thanks to all for the suggestions. The computer I'm buying is a weird one. Think of it as a laptop without a keyboard/mouse/or monitor. I don't think normal-sized PCI cards will fit. I won't

I tried unsuccessfully to do this a while back and gave up. It may be possible but it was frustrating plus I discovered that you can inexpensively buy a card with a pair of genuine RS232 style serial

Presumably you have one or two open PCI slots on the main board. An adapter card that provides serail ports are readily available, as I recall. I've had no problem with the typical USB to serial

John, I've personally never done this, but a quick google search rendered quite a few adapters. I think it's going to come down to wiring, meaning that the keyboard and mouse PS/2 wiring is

I'm upgrading my old Windows computer to a newer (but not new) one, mainly to convert from Windows XP to Windows 7 for when Microsoft abandons XP in early 2014. The newer one has many USB ports and