{"id":936,"date":"2009-05-24T21:48:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T03:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=936"},"modified":"2016-04-11T07:13:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:13:14","slug":"field-day-by-w5bog-green-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"Field Day by W5BOG – Green Power!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The\u00a0photo below was taken today while I was testing the output of my solar panels that I’ll be using for the W5BOG (Bexar Operators Group) Field Day up at Lost Maples State Park<\/a>. We will be setting up in the afternoon on Friday, June 26th so as to also operate during a Navy-Marine Corps MARS traffic\u00a0net that evening. Field Day starts on Saturday, June 27th and runs through noon Sunday, June 28th. It is a 24 hour event, but we’ll be doing other ham-related things, including experiments,\u00a0while we are there.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Combine\u00a0this system and my 200 watt wind turbine unit\u00a0(pix shows three blades before I added three more to make it much\u00a0more efficient)\u00a0will mean plenty of power for at least two\u00a0SSB stations to operate. This setup will also be used for my jump team programs. I may even skip bringing any of my gas generators with me to my jump team boot camps. Anyone who wishes to join us at Lost Maples is free to do so. Bring a sleeping bag (we provide the tent) and whatever personal items you wish. (check out the park\u00a0 and how to get there by clicking on the red “Lost Maples State Park” title above) \u00a0All power, including the\u00a0LED lighting system, will be furnished using either battery charged\u00a0solar energy or wind energy. Cooking will be\u00a0accomplished\u00a0using propane stoves. This will be a non-polluting \u00a0“GREEN” power operation.\u00a0Antennas won’t be commerically made, but will be built “on the spot” as if deploying under emergency conditions.\u00a0Come and learn how to operate during a real emergency situation where all you have is what’s brought to the site. Learn about site survey and set up from scratch,\u00a0setting up and using\u00a0solar and wind turbine power, duty cycles of equipment, propagation (how it works for or against you) and basic contesting skills from someone who has\u00a0earned several operating awards and deployed emergency stations\u00a0many times using survival skills acquired over the past 35 years. Since we are out in the field, I will even give mini-lessons on subjects\u00a0such as\u00a0how to filter “local water” using\u00a0a\u00a04- step filter system, of my own design,\u00a0which ecom workers may need if deployed to a rustic area and run out of bottled water.\u00a0\u00a0 Learn alot and have a lot of fun! If you plan on coming, email me at:\u00a0\u00a0 alonestaryank@aol.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bob\u00a0 W2IK – W5BOG – NNN0KSI – NNN0BGY2\u00a0 MARS Ecom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The\u00a0photo below was taken today while I was testing the output of my solar panels that I’ll be using for the W5BOG (Bexar Operators Group) Field Day up at Lost Maples State Park. We will be setting up in the afternoon on Friday, June 26th so as to also operate during a Navy-Marine Corps MARS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,9,19,4,2,8],"tags":[98,173,175,797,172,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7846,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/7846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}