DIY Portable Solar Generator update
Hello Operators Small update for the solar generator project. All the Headway LiFePO4 cells have arrived. That makes 12x, 15ah 40152s LiFePO4 cells. This gives […]
Solar Power for Ham Radio
Why Bespoke Build Portable Power?
Hello Operators Question keeps coming up, “Why bespoke build portable power when we can buy “off the shelf” saving ourselves the trouble?”. It’s very good […]
Portable Solar Generator DIY 12.8v LiFePO4
Hello OperatorsFrom December 2018 through February 2019, I researched, designed, documented, and built a 12 volt, 576wh DC Solar Generator, using LiFePO4 batteries. In some […]
Ham Radio Off Grid with OH8STN
Hello Operators There are often misconceptions about Communications off grid or what off grid actually means. That’s what we’re talking about today. There’s a lot […]
Better Power Distribution for Portable Ops.
Hello Operators We’ve done lots of work on the channel with portable power for portable ops. We’ve even discussed power distribution on the channel but […]
The Cost of Portable Off Grid Solar Power
Hello Operators. The first image you see in this post was taken in Lapland back in August 2018. It’s one of the scenes from The […]
Why PowerFilm Solar?
Hello Operators. Someone asked why I use PowerFilm Solar panels for my off grid expeditions, survival and field deployment. The answer is simple. In a […]
Field Day 2018 – Every day is field day
Almost every day is field day for me, “Special Event” optional. The excitement of Field Day is seeing so many other stations out working /P […]
Solar Energy vs latitude
My dear friend and Elmer Bonnie replied to a question on one of my posts. I thought it would be incredibly useful to share with […]
Amorphous vs Polycrystalline vs Monocrystalline Solar Panels
When we are discussing solar panels for man portable off-grid Communications, there are really only three choices. Despite the paid-for-promotion YT videos, we can easily […]