Building a Solar Powered Ham Radio Station

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Not a ham myself. Just a long-time shortwave listener who has a big interest in radio communications. If interested, you can see the shortwave radio thread here https://www.pmbug.com/threads/shortwave-listening-swl.4517/ .

The guy who wrote the article is a long-time ham with an interest in off-grid communications and portable off-grid battery and solar power. You can read about him here:

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Building a Solar Powered Ham Radio Station​

Welcome to the Off-Grid Ham Shack series. In this series we go through putting together a solar-powered off-grid ham radio station (Ham Shack). This article covers everything from solar panels, charge controllers, power distribution, and battery storage capable of powering our communications gear for fun, or in a grid-down scenario.

Building a Solar Powered Ham Radio Station

The Off-Grid Ham Shack series discusses creating a self-sufficient ham radio station or ‘Ham Shack’ capable of operating on solar power during any grid down scenario, emphasizing the im…

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2 - 100 watt 12 volt panels from Renogy, charge controller, blue tooth module, pretty simple. This young man's advice is outstanding.

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Oh yeah get a license and learn how to operate LOL. Antennas are more important than the radio. An Icom-7300 won't let you down, I have two.

 

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Here's Julian's latest vid and a few links.

Jan 23, 2024
In this video, we charge the lithium ( LiFePO4 ) battery powering the off-grid ham shack using a vertical-axis wind generator. Also covered are various methods of charging our solar battery storage, when there is no solar power for our ham radio station.

Charging Lithium battery with wind | Off Grid Ham Shack​

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- Episode notes: https://oh8stn.org/blog/2024/01/23/ch...
- Building your off-grid ham shack blog: https://oh8stn.org/blog/2023/12/21/bu...
- Power Queen 20A RF Quiet LiFePO4 charger: https://www.ipowerqueen.de/en/product...
- More about Power Queen: https://oh8stn.org/power-queen-lifepo4/

- Visit my blog and website: https://oh8stn.org

 

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Update on post # 1

My Off grid & Grid down Comms Energy Strategy | OH8STN​

Mar 10, 2024

The off-grid ham shack is now 100% energy self-reliant. It has taken some time to develop an effective grid-down energy strategy. Today, the station acting as a TOC (Tactical Operations Center, can stay in the fight during a prolonged grid-down disaster. This video covers batteries, solar power, wind generator, hand crank generator, power distribution, and much of the comms gear used off-grid, in the station.


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Huge thanks to @S2Underground for inspiring this video!

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Link to S2 Underground thread:

S2 Underground Project

This is an interesting YouTube channel I came across by accident. Will make a couple of posts, including links. All sorts of survivalist stuff here. For entertainment purposes only. "Nope" - The Art of Noncompliance Mar 13, 2021 21:07 In this episode, we cover just a few tactics that can be...

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