TOO LOUD!!

 59 is loud enough, for every 4 decibles, the sound is twice as loud. So 69 is almost three times as loud as 59.

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/dB.html

http://trace.wisc.edu/docs/2004-About-dB/

My Honda 3000 is rated at 49 to 58dB I think it's very quiet. I sit it back by the trailer wheels and you can't hardly hear it inside the trailer...

Is this because it's an inventer type?

My Yamaha 3000 inverter generator is quiet like your Honda, about 59 db. The thing I always have to overcome is I hate starting it up in a quiet horse camp even at mid day!I hate to ruin other campers serenity.I think it comes from years of ground camping next to REALLY NOISY generators. So we only run it to recharge batteries, not to run the AC and Micro. My advice...buy the quietest generator available. That would be the invertor style Honda,Yamaha or Kipor.

  Kind of off subject but Another plus,is to convert your generator to run on propane, and all of these are easy to convert . Then You and your neighbors dont have to deal with the gasoline exhaust fumes .

Your neighbors in camp may not have trailers that are insulated as well as yours...   (I know I'm making an assumption that yours IS insulated.)

I found the sound ratings for the ones I was looking at by looking at their specs on different websites.

I went ahead and bought one that is rated around 69db. It really doesn't seem all that bad to me....at least not compared to 75% of others I've heard at jackpots/barrel races/rodeos so I'm not going to stress over it.

It's 4400 starting watts, 3500 running...electric start and less than 100# (not that it matters, its going in the hayrack). It was less than $500 new.