Everything Ham Radio Podcast

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Everything Ham Radio Podcast! In this episode we are going to talk about Emergency Power. While the episodes this quarter have been about "Things to do on HF", this topic is more of a general ham radio topic and ties into our mini theme of Field Day which is coming up in a couple of weeks. Emergency power comes in all shapes and sizes. You can have a gas generator or a solar panel with batteries. It really on depends on what you want and how much you want to spend. There are some repeaters that run solely on "backup power". This type of setup will generally have a whole bank of batteries and a solar panel to charge them. Gas Generators   Gas generators are probably the most typical type of backup power that is used. They can range from a small 1000 watt generator that you buy from like a home improvement store or department store all the way up to a 20+kW generator that would be used to power like an Emergency Operations Center. For the typical