[TowerTalk] Feeding single band HF yagis 500+ ft from the shack

[Lux, Jim]

On 5/18/22 12:51 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> . What George has invented here is REAL ham radio. George has done at 
> least a half dozen activations of remote islands with old friend from 
> HA, several times sailing his own boat, almost always with innovative 
> engineering. RIB is yet another. A decade or so ago, George used only 
> DC-powered amplifiers run from batteries float-charged from, small 
> Honda generators running in economode. This great reduced the quantity 
> of petrol that had to be transported to the island.

This is really the important thing.. it gets to the "advancing the state 
of the art" part of amateur radio and being more holistic in the system 
engineering aspect.