[Elecraft] Batteries and solar power

[Jim Brown]

On 11/30/2013 9:49 AM, AG0N-3055 wrote:
> A boat is like a car.

Depends a lot on the boat.  Check out KC2IOV/MM. Four solar panels 
(high, angled at the stern) keep her batteries charged enough to run a 
100W ICOM marine radio and all the lighting and instruments on her 
38-foot sail boat.  She just finished a solo, non-stop, unassisted 
circumnavigation of the earth, entirely on sail power alone. I worked 
her several times on 40M SSB from the South Indian Ocean.

73, Jim K9YC.