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

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Using solar powered LED garden lights, I modified them for use on my sailboat as navigation lights. I found myself out on the water a few times at dusk with failing batteries or looking for my clamp on running lights and asked is there a simpler way. The modification is very simple and easy to do by changing to ultra bright LEDs of the appropriate colour. What is nice is it is low cost, reliable, no special wiring of the boat system required and comes on by its self.
It cost about $25 or less to do your self. I liked what I did so much that I acquired a US provisional paten but individuals can copy it, no problem. Try this at your own risk it worked for me, best of luck.

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