The power for my amateur radio station is in transition as I slowly convert back to solar (the station at my previous house, including lights and other peripherals, was 100% solar power). What you see here are a bunch of alligator clip leads connecting two solar charged batteries to my Elecraft K1 QRP transceiver and MorseMachine electronic keyer via Anderson PowerPole DC power connectors. I key the MorseMachine with a Kent iambic paddle and occasionally use that little Morse Express Christmas Key (Serial # 003 – 2001) for key-down/tune-up purposes. Also featured in this video is my Kenwood R-600 general coverage receiver, Kenwood TR-751A all-mode 2 meter transceiver, and the aforementioned Elecraft K1. The computers (the black cabinet on the left is under construction awaiting a Quad processing motherboard and maybe a couple 1 tb hard drives – all are state-of-the-art as of this writing) are almost never used for radio purposes (except maybe for looking stuff up on the Internet) with one always configured as a dedicated Linux box.
Since I’m always changing things around you may want to look my website over for the latest configuration to my station:
http://www.rogerwendell.com/mystation.html
Oh, here’s my YouTube video on the simple solar charging system I was using at the time of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbx_Qhc8mU
72s!
WBØJNR
05-03-2008
Duration : 0:1:6
