Tag: sustainable power

Low Power!? Losing your freaking mind!

Nov 10, 2020

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Julian OH8STN

in Digital QRP, Grid Down Communications, Ham Radio, Off Grid Grid Down, Preparedness, QRP, QRP Portable, Survival & Preparedness

Hello OperatorsMany of you have commented about my turn back towards low power communications for EMCOMM and Preparedness. Some have gone as far as to ask “Have you lost your freaking mind Julian?”. Suppose we discuss it. It certainly is nice to use 100 watts of power in the field. Can you think of any…
QRO isn’t always required for regional communications

Oct 27, 2020

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Julian OH8STN

in battery power, Education, Emergency Communications, Ham Radio

Hello Operators. Today let’s talk about sustainable output power for grid down ham radio communications. In the video at the bottom of this post, there are two different Winlink sessions. One is PAT Winlink running on a Raspberry Pi, The other Winlink Express running on my Windows 10 Yoga laptop. Both are using the Icom…