[Elecraft] Thoughts about K2 and solar/battery capacity

[Michael Babineau]

Daniel Reynolds <aa0ni at yahoo.com> wrote :

<snip>

 > I plan on buying the Micro M+ charge controller kit
 >as time and money allows. In the mean time, I'm going to let the solar 
panel
 >get my 7Ah gel cell up to full charge.

FYI there is now a Micro M+ Portable which is very compact and sealed in
Epoxy so it is impervious to the elements. I picked one up at Dayton 
from
SES for $35. I plan to use mine with a 5W panel and a smallish gel cell
to power my K1 for Field day.

<snip>

 >p.s. Now - all I need to do is find someone who will write up a Palm 
OS Field
 >Day logging program that will handle dupe checking, keep track of 
sections
 >worked, and tally up my score. Then I can forget about dragging out 
those large
 >dupe sheets and all of those log sheets and forms into the windy 
Oklahoma outdoors.

Well, GOLOG by NK0E does a pretty good job of logging and dupe checking 
but the
output is only a text file. I have considered writing some Perl or 
perhaps Python code
to massage the output for various events including FD but haven't had 
the time yet.

Checkout  earthlink.net/~golog/.

GOLOG also works well with the Palm Keyboards, which BTW for older Palm
models can be had new on Ebay for about $US10 (thats where I got mine 
for
my Palm III).

Michael VE3WMB