{"id":116,"date":"2020-10-12T15:12:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/?p=116"},"modified":"2020-10-12T15:13:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:13:30","slug":"getting-portable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/2020\/10\/12\/getting-portable\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Portable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Inspired by OH8STN (http:\/\/oh8stn.org\/<\/a>), and in anticipation of Winter Field Day (https:\/\/www.winterfieldday.com\/<\/a>) I decided to make a portable station. For the most part, it is my normal home setup on a cart. It is heavy but it works, refinements will be reducing weight. When put together for travel it looks like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portable station packed for travel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The items aren’t ideal, but this was made from scrap and items I had on hand. The only items I purchased for portable use was the cart, a Rambo Bikes cart made for a fatbike but can double as a hand cart, and a GPS dongle for time which is required for some digital modes. Additionally, a 100w solar panel from Rockpals provides recharging capability, which I got on sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During Setup<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Station in use<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The batteries are the same as my home station, I got a fresh set and used the older ones for portable. They add the most weight at 100lb of Gel lead acid battery, but I get 140Ah from it. The box is weatherproofed, but ill need to refine how I cover and load the cart for rain. The box lid doubles as a tabletop when it is inside the shelter. I added an IC7200 to the setup since its made to take out in the field and less delicate than the IC7300. A couple of old tablets provide VNC (remote desktop) access to the Raspberry Pi, which handles digital modes. Antenna is a multiband Windom dipole that uses trees for height in an inverted v configuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving the station is workable, but weight reduction will help make this easier. difficult terrain will be a challenge in its current state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It works in testing, I get the same reach as my home setup, so I am happy with it. The next step will be to find some local campgrounds, hike in, and set up there to see how far I can pack this and what can be done to improve its portability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Using digital modes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inspired by OH8STN (http:\/\/oh8stn.org\/), and in anticipation of Winter Field Day (https:\/\/www.winterfieldday.com\/) I decided to make a portable station. For the most part, it is my normal home setup on a cart. It is heavy but it works, refinements will be reducing weight. When put together for travel it looks like: The items aren’t ideal, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stickelman.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}