[BC] POTS reliability...

[Paul Smith W4KNX]

In most states, you can file a form and they will refund the road tax as
long as you can prove it wasnt used on the highway.  Farmers do that all the
time.  If you use diesel, why not use heating oil?  Basically the same
thing.

Paul Smith
W4KNX
Sarasota, FLO

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I was the DOE for a chain (back in the one station per market days)
that lost power for nearly one month.

The power company thought in important we stay on the air.  We were
offering good information.  They actually offered to deliver diesel
fuel to the transmitter site.

We were able to keep in on the air on our own.

We were on generator almost for a month because of ice storms.  The
odd thing was that even with Road Tax, it cost less than 1/3 the cost
of the electric bill.  We paid road tax because of the situation, we
just wanted to be on the air, so we bought diesel, and paid the road
tax.