I have two solar panels that produce 23 amps of power at 13 v.  They charge/power two 150 amp hr gel batteries and run my kenwood ts 2000 at 100w quite effectively. I operated this system via hf NVIS while supporting Katrina.  For all you 2m folks, repeaters die when the power goes out and their generators run out of power.

Got ripped off via Postal Money Order to the tune of $250 for a SM220 with Panadapter.  Sent money order, never got goods. Guy cashed money order.  Called Postal Inspector got reply "prove he did not mail it to you" and "do you have a written contract" and "investigation of anything under $5,000 is waste of taxpayer money".  So much for your feeling scamming somone with a PMO will bring the fraud police after you.  I always pay via PayPal.  It provides the seller and buyer with some protection and they don't have a $5,000 ceiling.  Any add that says PMO only, I ignore.  I wish eham would put a sortable check block on adds that indicates PayPal accepted and I could sort by PayPal only.


73's

I run my 857D at 100w via a two Sun A200fa2 solar panels that produce 11.05 Amps each, a Prostar PS30 that is the controller attached to the panels and batteries and two 200 amp hour gel cells.  The radio and my solid state amp are attached to the batteries.  The panels will run the radio and charge the batteries when listening and will run the radio and the amp (transmit power 400 watts max) with no trouble at all.  At night, the amp goes off and the batteries will power the radio at 100 watts all night.  I will be setting this system up for the scouts at the Oct Jamboree on the air.  I use the Transworld portable antenna system.  Listen on 20m and 40m Oct 17th and you will hear me on the air with this system.

Cost of the system was $1,700