We stepped out of our tiny caravan one morning to find we were axle deep in water.
David G3UNA On Thu, 21 May 2026 at 16:49, Michael Needham via Elecraft < [email protected]> wrote: > Many years ago I got permission from my National Guard commander to take > one of our shop rigs and generator sets to FD .I set up the generators and > a rigged up interface the NG had built to supply civilian plug-ins , now > mind you we in the past had small generators vs the two 10 Kw generator set > I just showed up with. > It was fun to see my club members discover that there was enough power to > run all the stations plus air-conditioned custom van , plus lights . > So Saturday afternoon som of my friends walked up while I was making a > generator swap over which involved having both generators operating and a > heavy duty snap action change over switch that swapps the load over. > My friends were staring at the control panel and expressed concern that > the clubs equipment was too much load for the generator , I had to laugh > as I pointed out they was looking at the Cycles Per Second gage not the > load meter , we were holding at 60 CPS and 10 to 15% load , where when my > unit was in the field we ran these generators at 100% load for the > duration of the drill. > It was a conversation with would pop up many times later about "That time > we had more power than we knew what to do with". > > Michael WB7SKK > > > On Thu, May 21, 2026, 9:54 AM jimk8mr--- via Elecraft < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Many years ago I was operating after dark, from a table under a picnic > > fly. When suddenly my pretty new IC-746 jumped off the operating table, > > onto the ground! > > A departing operator had caught the feedline on his car's rear bumper. > > Fortunately I had an SWR bridge in line, the coax to it acting as a > > mechanical fuse to keep the radio from going any further. The op did > > realize what had happened and stopped to check things out, so my radio > > would not have accumulated may miles. But it still worked! > > > > 73 - Jim K8MR > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
