I agree with these guys.
Hey, can someone look over these pix and offer any suggestions? I have to
pull a trailer with a 5k generator on it, that small one under the tub won't
even power one rig much less two with amps. It was a nice idea, but too
small. Anyway, the pix are at http://home.comcast.net/~joeserocki/rover/.
I am also interested in power suggestions. The power supply I am using
offers 35 amps at 14v. Nearly 500 watts. With 25 amps being pulled by the
radios, 350 watts, the generator cannot keep up. Since this is an analog
supply, let's assume 50% efficiency, meaning it is sucking up 700 watts. The
generator is rated at 850 watts. 850 watts for what, until it explodes? It
drops to 100 volts at anything over 500 watts load, and that's not like it
is unregulated, it tries to speed up but does not have the kahunas to keep
up. So back to the statement, what recommendations for generators do you all
have? I don't really want to pull the 5k, but she is nice and quiet and
powerful, so maybe I should leave well enough alone. But it sure would be
nice to have a smaller (2-3k) generator that was light enough to put on the
back of the van in the rack rather than deal with another trailer.
In case you are wondering, I don't like to run off the vehicle. It is not
regulated at all well, and does not provide 14v like the power supply does.
Add to that one of my amps requires 24v, but that's neither here nor there.
Besides with 110v I can keep a small fridge in there :)
73
N9IFG
-----Original Message-----
From: vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Zack Widup
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:52 PM
To: Tom Staley
Cc: VHFcontesting@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] controversy
Yeah, we have the ARRL UHF contest this weekend, the first weekend of the
10+ GHz contest two weeks after that, the Sept QSO Party coming up and the
second weekend of the 10+ GHz contest.
Lots of things to keep us busy and hopefully busy discussing!
73, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Tom Staley wrote:
> I have to agree with Gregg here. Leave the political garbage to the
upcoming
> election, let's play radio!
>
> 73
> Tom - K9TMS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Gregg Seidl
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:41 PM
> To: VHFcontesting@contesting.com
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] controversy
>
> Can we PLEASE quit this thread.Its getting quite old now.It does no good
to
> call this one a lair or that one a cheater.It is what it is.I wish we'd
get
> a nice tropo opening,then we could all get on the radio and make some
QSO's.
>
> Gregg K9KL
>
>
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