Hi Group, first post here, long time TBNer and a propane quality question

[RobertBrown]

Good Morning crreed67,
Sorry James is a ham operator, and that's code, for good morning James ! :")

WOW!
I had ham for breakfast....so weird....

 

[TripleR]

My father in law was the largest bulk distributor in my area and the first to start carrying propane and James is pretty much on it. He had his own 8000 gallon transports and routinely hauled from terminals, so it was all the same. The only time he experienced issues was in the 70s when he had to buy from terminals over 400 miles away to keep his customers warm, lost money on every trip and had to pay a fine when he did.

In my area, no matter the brand, it's all the same.

 

[crreed67]

Like the code......

 

[k0ua]

Like the code......

so how fast can you copy it by ear? I have a "heck" of a time reading it off of a page, I have to convert it to dits and dahs and "listen" to it in my head.

Morse or as we "hams" like to call it CW, is not really a written language but an aural language. But we can't really attach audio files here.

 

[scott_vt]

so how fast can you copy it by ear? I have a "heck" of a time reading it off of a page, I have to convert it to dits and dahs and "listen" to it in my head.:ashamed:
Morse or as we "hams" like to call it CW, is not really a written language but an aural language. But we can't really attach audio files here.

Good Evening James,
OK this is certainly frowned upon by are more senior members, OH darn I guess that would be me !:ashamed:

I'm thinking that we have resolved the propane issue on this thread !

That being said, I cant tell you guys how excited I was as a teenager back in the sixties, when I would clip my head phones on late at night and listen for a K0 or a W0, pounding out a CQ at 2 AM eastern time late at night, and I would call back using morse code and get a reply !!!

As for code proficiency, I think I got up too 30 or 35 words per minute which was pretty good, although, some guys could do 60 !!!

You had to be there to understand !!! Awesome !!!

 

[dadster4]

My dad was a radio operator in WWII and could do over 60 wpm. He taught my mother enough that they could dit and dah at the dinner table and keep all 5 kids wondering what they were laughing about

 

[crreed67]

so how fast can you copy it by ear? I have a "heck" of a time reading it off of a page, I have to convert it to dits and dahs and "listen" to it in my head.

Morse or as we "hams" like to call it CW, is not really a written language but an aural language. But we can't really attach audio files here.

Not good at all. I really find it interesting and it amazes me how people can understand so well when its going so fast.

 

[k0ua]

Not good at all. I really find it interesting and it amazes me how people can understand so well when its going so fast.

I can do about 18wpm. Not really very fast. Are you going to do SKN (Straight Key Nite) on the 31st? I usually work a couple of folks just for fun, but I am not much of a CW op either.

 

[crreed67]

Nah. I would be lost. Not good at it at all.

 

[cat fever]

First off I would like to say that I found this group about five months ago and found so many great ideas I starting reading from page one, I am now up to page 428, just over halfway to the end which is page 802 currently. I joined TBN six years ago and starting living rural nine years ago.

I just started using propane four years ago and recently heard of propane quality being manipulated by the selling propane company. I understand some propane is 95%+ pure where others is only 20-50% pure propane with the other percentage(s) being butane and other burnable gases. I have always bought the lowest price propane which I just paid $1.12 for, the two other companies are charging $1.40. I realize there is an axiom of you get what you pay for but is this true with propane, does paying more necessarily mean a higher quality?

I run a brand new furnace, brand new water heater, four year old hardly used unvented "blue flame" space heater and I have my barely used 4,400 watt generator plumbed into the big tank., all else is electric.

So my question: Is there a way for the buyer to know if they are receiving quality or inferior propane?

I have personally never heard of anything like what you stated. Here is a copy of a propane final where I work. As you can see the C3 content is 96%.

I would also add that the specs here are the same year round.