On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 17:04:29 -0400 Joseph Armbruster josepharmbruster@gmail.com wrote:
Gordon,
That's interesting! I live down in Florida and had no clue that some of those towers were powered by diesel!
Do you know how many gallons (or liters) it takes to run the tower for a week?
Joseph Armbruster KJ4JIO
The tank on site near the high site I was working on last week is about the same size as my 1300 litre heating oil tank. It's a 10kVA genny, somewhere around 2 litres per hour, and it gets topped up every two weeks.
A rough back-of-an-envelope calculation gives about three and a half weeks running time to dry, not allowing for any load-shedding. Presumably you could knock down the RAN output power, or drop off one of the microwave links if you needed to save a bit of fuel.
Gordon MM0YEQ