Posted: 5/13/2012 9:14:09 AM EDT
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Pictures of my bike that I am getting ready for Dayton Hamvention. I will have it on the Bicycle Mobile Hams of America ride on Saturday and on display at the forum on Sunday. It is set up with HF, 2 meter VHF and APRS radios. This morning I worked stations in Croatia, Alabama and Colorado with 5 watts. The radios are powered by SLA and LiFePO4 batteries with solar charging. BMHA was founded by Hartley Alley, who is better known for starting the Hilly Hundred ride in Southern Indiana. At 85 years old he and his wife made a bike trip from CO to MA to his high school class reunion.  
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Quoted: You live close enough that you could drive over for a day. I'm further away than you and have done that many times. Find some ham friends. Leave about 5 am. Stop for breakfast and still get there by the time it opens on Saturday morning. Leave Hamvention at 5 pm and you are still home in time to tuck the kids in bed. Quoted: Quoted: You going to Dayton this year?Sweet ride, KM.  I keep saying that I need to go, but work and family keep getting in the way. I'll have to be content reading the after action reports you guys post.  It is easier to get away for the whole weekend since the kids are grown up and have children of their own. From the time the kid were born till they were gone from home it seemed like 1 day was all I could get away. |
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That is a sweet ride and you are an inspiration to geeks everywhere!
I must say one thing though: the method with which you have secured your solar panel could be sub-optimal. Those bungee cords going across the cells don't cast much of a shadow, but it enough to significantly alter the output of the panel. I urge you to hook a meter up to the output of the panel and check the voltages with and without those shadows from the cords. You might be surprised by how much a little shadow can affect the output. Of course it's a much bigger problem on a less-than-ideal day (PV wise) like the cloudy conditions (I think) in your photos. |
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Quoted: That is temporary and will change before I leave. That was just to fasten it on today.That is a sweet ride and you are an inspiration to geeks everywhere! I must say one thing though: the method with which you have secured your solar panel could be sub-optimal. Those bungee cords going across the cells don't cast much of a shadow, but it enough to significantly alter the output of the panel. I urge you to hook a meter up to the output of the panel and check the voltages with and without those shadows from the cords. You might be surprised by how much a little shadow can affect the output. Of course it's a much bigger problem on a less-than-ideal day (PV wise) like the cloudy conditions (I think) in your photos. |
