The Best way is to install an isolator to charge a deep cycle battery in
the cab of the car that runs the rover station when mobile and carry a
small 1K or 2K generator to run everything / charge the battery when
stationary.
in the 20+ yrs I was a Competitive ROVER the battery and electrical system
have occasionally died on me in very inconvenient places, hence the switch
to the deep cycle and small generator.
Now When I was running around with a borrowed 6M KW ROVER... That was
another story. In 4 long and well planned grid activation trips over a 3
yrs period to rare grids, I activated 110 grids. 6M KW ROVER as we called
it had a 8KW Genset that was for its size very quiet. It and everything
else in the bed was attached to a Heavy Duty Wood False Floor, The Huge
duty lumber rack that was modified to have a wood floored porch above the
cab for installing the 50ft mil surplus portable tower attached to the
front of the bed.
to install the 6M antenna you undid the bungy cords then climbed the short
ladder you set up behind the lowered tailgate, worked you way throug the
bed of equipment to a small ladder installed at the front of the bed,
climbed up to the platform above the cab, grabbed the 5 ele M2 Yagi and
lift it up over your head, twirled it to land on the safety-wired rotor
that waited for it. Only a few cranks on a Socket driver with a 1/2 deep
socket to secure the antenna pointed toward the front bumper. Then hit the
switch and the 12V winch raised it to up till the 6 preinstalled guys grew
taunt at a bout 40 ft or so total height above ground. If not already
running fire off the Genset and let it settle down a bit the get in the cab
of the awesome late model ram PU truck to the center console where the
IC-706mkIIg ,IC-PM1, and rotor remote controls were mounted.
Fire up the gear and your on the air with 1KW on 6M on any mode,
CW/SSB/Digital. Mounted on the passenger side back corner was one of that
loops KB6KQ made for 6M. 3' diameter mounted on a pipe about 4ft above the
Ladder rack and 11 ft above the roadway. While he only tested those loops
to 700 watts of so I am here to tall you one of those with a perfect SWR
will easily handle a full KW on FSK441, CW, or SSB while traveling down the
road at 75MPH. I worked over 100 MS contacts while driving thru rare grids
in NV, CA, AZ, UT, NM, TX, WY, MT, and OR!
Now many people have the ability to equip such a monster but I can tell you
IT WAS FUN!
If you need any ROVER ideas, help with routes, whatever feel free to drop
me a line. At Last count I had Operated from over 148 grids covering from
all of NV to San Diego, East to East Texas, up to OK and back thru WY, MT,
NM. AZ, UT, NV. OR, and to CN71 in CA before coming back home to DM09. If
there is a accessible tall mtn within 800 miles from here odds are Motorola
sent me there back in the day.
Check out K7XC.Tripod.Com for more detailed information.
73s and above all... HAVE FUN!, de Tim - K7XC - DM09jh... sk
Adapt, Overcome, Succeed!
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 4:14 PM Jonesy W3DHJ via VHFcontesting <
vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018, Steve(K1IIG) wrote:
>
> > I know a lot of Rovers use Subarus and wonder if there are any battery
> > problems with them.
>
> 2016 Subaru XV Crosstrek here (2103 Crosstrek before that -- long
> story.) Never any battery issues - though I have twice run the battery
> flat due to idiot operator snafus.
>
> > I have a 2017 Outback and have had the battery die over night twice
> > after leaving a dome light on. I measured it at 600ma and when out the
> > drain is only 40-50ma which is normal.
>
> I have left both the 2013 and 2016 Subaru in an airport parking lot for
> over 3 weeks at a time with No Issues. With the always-on "security"
> system in the vehicle, I was hesitant. Again, never any battery issue.
>
> > It charges at 14.2v which also is normal. There are pages of
> > complaints on the internet about batteries dying for no explainable
> > reason. Anyone know of a fix for this?
>
> I would believe a "bigger" post factory-installed battery would be a lot
> "beefier".
>
> > I have a 2017 Outback and have had the battery die over night twice
> > after leaving a dome light on.
>
> A fix for leaving the dome light on? :-) Ya, sure .... :-)
>
> > I figure if anyone knows about battery issues it would be the Rovers.
>
> See my Rover Sagas web page for dead battery stories and solar panel
> solution:
> https://w3dhj.net/vhfrover_sagas.html
>
> HTH es 73
> Jonesy
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