Hello Mike,
Thanks for the info. I will give the press release a look over, it
may very well help me out. The site I am at is vacant. There has not
been anyone there for several years. The tower company has donated the
tower space as long as I help maintain the site (cut grass and such).
All I must pay for is the electricity. There is already a meter on site
and run to the cabinet that I will be using. (cabinets are pole mounted
by the way) Anyway, maybe if I go sit down and have a face to face I
can get some where with our local power company.
Thanks again
Steaven, W4YI
Mike WA6ILQ wrote:
>We got the residential rate but we had to put in our own meter
>to get it.
>Showing the Pac Bell press release that I put up on
>www.repeater-builder.com helped. It showed that another
>utility in the same area had granted residential rates.
>
>We bolted a meter panel next to the existing paging company's
>meter and ran 1/2" conduit to a box by our rack. In the same
>room were several paging TXs.
>
>A year earlier another ham group had rented space at
>another site that also rented to the same paging company.
>Based on their experience we did not leave an open
>outlet. They had put in a meter and conduit to a quad
>box behind their racks. Their bill was consistent month-
>to-month for over a year then suddenly went up 600%.
>They made a site visit and found a 330w paging TX
>plugged into the extra outlet they left open (they had used
>three of four outlets). It may have been accidental on
>the part of the paging tech, but as I understood the
>situation it took almost 9 months for the paging company
>to reimburse them.
>
>We put a blank plate on our quad box, and drilled
>holes in the plate for two clamps. We cut the plugs
>off of two 14-3 extension cords and wired them up
>so one was on each side of the 220v line, and both
>were the only live outlets on our meter. We dropped
>the female ends into the rack and plugged the two
>power strips into them.
>
>Mike WA6ILQ
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