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The Ham Radio two point zero Audio
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listening to this podcast. So basically
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But I want to welcome you and
thank you for joining the audio section of

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this series on Ham Radio. I
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appreciate you leaving us a comment or
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from. Thank you in seventy three. I hope you enjoy it. This

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is the petron Peak roun what the
proper pronunciation is six power station that was

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sent to me by these folks,
and it's pretty cool. Been testing here

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for about the last hour or so
and setting it here with my IC seven

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oh five, just kind of listening
to some twenty meters. It's amazing,

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which you can hear on that MFJ
telescoping antenna plug directly in there. I

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had to turn my trailer off to
get good at some of the RFI,

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but I wanted to test this.
Now. Let me show you this right

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here real quick. Ever since I
did my first power station solar generator video

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a few months ago. I get
knows from people asking me to make videos

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for their products, and that's what
happened with these guys. This one comes

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in this nice little kit. This
case comes with the power station. Obviously,

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the power station itself won't fit in
there, but this case comes with

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it and it houses all of the
connectors and charging cables for the unit.

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So I really like that. I
really like the fact that this case.

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Some of them just come with like
a cardboard box that gets easily destroyed if

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you're going to put it in a
pack or something. Other ones don't come

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with anything. This one actually comes
with a nice protective case for your charging

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station. This guy right here is
a lithium ion charger. Output is forty

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two volts at seven amps, so
that'll do some serious charging right there.

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This is a proprietary plug this guy
right here for the power station itself,

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so that goes to MC four connections. This one will allow you to charge

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it via cigarette lighter adapter if you
want. This is my favorite one.

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Of course, it come it actually
comes with power poles. I didn't make

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this, it came with it,
so you got your proprietary connection for the

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power station, and you can plug
directly into power poles. Oh, the

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gigaparts panels have power poles on them, and some of the other panels that

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I have have power poles on them
for a solar panel set up, So

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you can do it that way if
you prefer. But I always always like

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to point out when power poles are
included from the manufacturer in one of these

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setups, because, as you all
know, that's what most of us uses,

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power poles. This is the front
of the unit. Now I've said

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this before in multiple videos, but
a lot of these guys use the same

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screen across all these different brands of
our stations. This screen is actually different.

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It's just it's not better or worse
or anything. It's just different.

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It's just what different than what I'm
used to seeing on a lot of these

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other power stations. So we've got
two twenty six point four volts and two

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hundred and three hours on the battery
right now. That's because nothing's plugged into

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it. So you can hit DC
out here. It's one hundred percent hit

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that again, twenty six point four
volts, one hundred percent power and the

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AC out if you hold that down, it turns on these plugs here and

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it pops up a new meter on
the screen there, so you can have

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that off and on. Over here, we've got an eighteen watt and a

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one hundred watt pd USBC port that's
kind of fun, and an eighteen and

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two eighteen watts USBA ports, and
then we've got these twelve volt ten m

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ports for DC output right here.
This is these are proprietary or not proprietary.

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These are those standard barrel connectors that
you have, and of course that's

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a cigarette lighter adapter. These are
the input ports with the proprietary connector.

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That one there is the standard barrel
connector, the cable that I just showed

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you what the MC four connectors would
go in there, and then the proprietary

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connector they have goes in there.
So thirty two to ninety five volt max

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on that one, and then twelve
to eighteen volts one hundred wat max on

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that one, So that one's obviously
not as big, but it'll take a

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four hundred watt solar panel to charge
it. That's pretty fun. That's pretty

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fun. I think the coolest part
about this is the built in like that's

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just painted on right there, and
that's a wireless charging port for your phone.

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Take my phone right there and you
can see it just came up on

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the screen. There we go.
So now my phone is charging just by

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sitting it on top of that station. So that'll be awfully useful in the

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campsite or in the gazelle tent or
even even in the RV camper here.

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Plug in whatever you need to that
and then set your phone on top of

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it. You don't need an extra
cable, you don't need an extra port,

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you don't need an extra anything to
charge your phone. You can save

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these for your radios or your light
packs, battery packs whatever. I like

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to do RFI tests on these,
So we're gonna plug some stuff into it.

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I want to plug in a USB
cable to charge the phone and see

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if it affects the screen on the
seven or five right there. We can

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see what we're seeing on the on
the waterfall right now. We're outside,

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so there's a little bit of glare
in the screen, but we've got we've

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got a pretty good, pretty good
signal coming in. Not too much noise

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on the band today with the MFJ
telescopping twenty meter and tenna right there.

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Tell them n plug a couple of
things in. Got my phone plugged in.

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It came up and it said it
was charging. Unplug it there and

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plug it back in, just so
it's on camera right there, and there's

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no difference on the waterfall, so
charging USB is not going to really show

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any difference on the waterfall. So
that's good. I was hoping to charge

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my r Finder P ten tablet,
but it takes a pretty beefy output power

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to charge that thing. I think
this hundred USBC port would charge it,

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but I don't have a USBC to
USBC cable with me. I would need

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USBC on this end and on that
end. I don't have it with me,

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so I'll be interested to that later
unless I can find a USBC to

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USBC cable. I'm gonna plug this
in because I can charge the Rfinder tablet

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from the adapter, from the AC
adapter it has. We're gonna try that

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next. All right, Turning on
the AC causes noise in the band.

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You see that waterfall noise is going
away. I'm gonna I'm gonna hold down

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this AC button on this and let
you guys, watch the waterfall next there

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it goes. Now, this is
not unusual for DC to ac inverters to

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do this. And I've got these
two guys sitting right next to one another,

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so we're gonna I'm gonna grab that
radio bag and walk away with it

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here in a second. But I'm
not even charging anything right now. I'm

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gonna plug in my Rfinder tablet and
yeah, some more noise came up when

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I plugged that in. It's got
twenty one watts out right now. So

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if I unplug this so you can
see all that changes. Yeah, drops

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down to zero zor wat's out.
Plug this in takes it a second to

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update. That's normal eighteen watts out
sixteen about sixteen hours. It'll stay on

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this. This battery will charge this
for sixteen hours, which it won't take

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that long. That's just how much
battery life you have left. But it

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is puking all over the band.
You can see that right there. So

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now the question is what's the proximity
of RFI on that thing? If I

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were to take it over there and
set it down, what it do is

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badly or what? So let's try
that. It's pretty much gone right,

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here, I'm ten feet away from
it. I can still kind of hear

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it. But the waterfall, the
waterfall is clear right there. It's completely

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gone. Maybe twelve feet yeah,
not far at all. So it's not

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like I gotta walk a quarter mile
out that way to get the RFI out

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of the I have a waterfall,
and this is a vertical antenna. If

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you put up a longer wire antenna
and strong it's for a longer path over

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here, you probably have a bit
more interference and that's going to play a

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factor into it as well. But
to me, you know, most AC

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inverters DC to AC inverters cause RFI. I've yet to find when it doesn't

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without spending a lot of months.
But I mean, you know, that's

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it is what it is. So
it just depends on what you want to

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if you want to use DC output
on that power station. Most of the

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time, I think you're gonna be
okay. Because we didn't have any trouble

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with the USB charging and whatnot.
It was only when we turned the acon

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that we had that come up.
But you can see that it's not very

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far away and you can totally use
that. Just keep them a little bit

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separated. If you want to do
it that way. Once again, special

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thanks to Becron for sending me this
power station. Pretty impressed with it so

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far. One thing I didn't show
is that all the ports are on the

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front here, and I've mentioned that
about other power stations in the past.

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I don't particularly like when there's ports
on two or three or all four sides,

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because then you've got wires coming out
everywhere. And in some situations that's

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okay, but like, if you're
gonna put this in the corner of a

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tent, if you're gonna use it
camping, you're gonna put it in the

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corner of a tent. Now I
can stick it over there in the corner.

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I just have all my plug in
connections going into one side and kind

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of back it up to the back
corner of the tent, and I'll have

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to worry about wiring stuff around and
going out of the tent and whatnots I

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really like the wireless charging for the
phone on it because that means you don't

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have to have an extra cable for
it and that kind of thing. These

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kind of semi rubber feet that are
on it right here allow you to set

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it down not only in proper configuration, but you could set it on its

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back if you wanted to, like
that, if you want. Oh,

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I've just heard the noise come up
because I moved it. Nice polarization,

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baby. But you could set it
on this back right here if you wanted

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to. You could set it.
I guess you could set it on its

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front. I don't know why you'd
want to, but if you set it

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down on its front for storage or
something, this these protective feet kind of

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keep it from scratching up your screen
and whatnot, so pretty much a win

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win. I'm pretty happy with it, looking forward to using it on my

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next camping trip and we'll see how
that goes. Thank you for watching today.

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Put a comment below and let me
know what solar generator slash power station

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you're currently using right now and what
you think about it. Seventy three