I recommend a car (cigarette lighter plug) charger for your cell phone. Mine has helped me out a number of times. -- Andy Oppel, N6AJO At 05:42 AM 6/3/2004, you wrote:

You may have read about the storms that hit the DFW area. Yesterday the power company (TXU) said that over 350,000 homes and businesses were with out electricity.

I am one of them. It has been over 60 hours now, but thanks to the Dallas ARC, I have one of their 8KW gen sets going to run the refrigerator and freezer. I do not have phones in the office as they take external 120 volts and the UPS does not like the gen set (I guess it is not exactly 60 hertz) so I am up for a short while to sent this e-mail. My cell is charging at the moment and should be OK in a little while. More storms last night and more for today.

Jim Haynie