Subj : Re: Queen City BBS Power Issues
To   : TheNerd
From : n2qfd
Date : Thu Aug 08 2024 07:05 pm

 Th> Really?   Of course it isn't important enough for a UPS.  Good lord man,
 Th> people priorities should not land with the BBS being #1.  Mine also
 Th> doesn't sit on a UPS.  If it goes down..  its down..  this isn't an ISP
 Th> with thousands of clients PAYING for service, its a toy.  At some point
 Th> I may get a UPS but I'm not going to prioritize one and neither should
 Th> the other guy..

  yeah, this is exactly where I'm coming from. My BBS has near zero traffic and it's really the hardware that has the value here. I'm not going to say not to spend money in the things you love doing. I've got more than a few duckets tied up in ham radio gear. Still, Occam's razor the simple answer is often the right one. I don't want another bit of kit to maintain on top of the blinking paperweight that is my BBS. I don't have elaborate electrical suppression for my radio gear, I just never leave my antenna hooked up but rather grounded when not in use and even the power supply transformer unplugged. I cover my "rig" and my key with cloths for dust. I mean my morse code key is a few hundred dollars worth of equipment alone and I have a few of them! So, the well spent part of money well spent is as often the case in the eye of the beholder.


  I appreciate the comments, I really do as much as I appreciate the fsx cadre of BBS operators here. As it was on Waldon Pond a long time ago, "Simplify Simplify" has been working well enough for now and perhaps I'll look into that standby power some day.

  Best 73 as we say on the radio .. 

N2QFD{Queen City BBS}:// "Does this need to be said? Does this need to be said
by me? Does this need to be said by me right now?" - Craig Ferguson 

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