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I agree that Starlink will change things, but ham radio will still have a place in emergency communications. Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and the California wildfires are a couple of recent examples.

Thanks for the add. As a ham radio operator living on the gulf coast, emergency communications is often on my mind and solar power is an obvious solution. I'm looking forward to learning and hopefully contributing from time to time.

Thank you for the information and the support. The repeater site is somewhat remote so we are thinking that we should deploy the panels when needed, which may have its own issues when it comes to being able to access the site. The idea of multiple smaller panels is a good one that we hadn’t...

There are a few factors but mostly the output power of the radio. Ballpark figures, you use 5A on receive and 20A on transmit. Generally speaking you will listen 80% of the time.

As best I can tell I can’t change that for 30 days…

Our ham radio club needs to replace our current battery back-up for our repeater and we are looking at doing a significant upgrade. The repeater is a 12v system so no inverter is needed. Our current thinking is a 100ah LiFePo battery that should run the repeater for about 30 hours, and a 400...