Solar Powered Repeater Example. Commercial Grade

[@OH8STN]

Excellent video Guerrilla. You know, the thing I miss the most from SoCal is the mountains and foothills. That place in your video reminds me of my childhood playground. A place called Turnbull canyon in Whittier. I fully expected to see a mountain lion or couple of rattlesnakes in your video. Beautiful country man. Grass is always greener... Thanks for sharing

[@portlandlocalchurch8168]

Thanks for sharing this buddy.. I'm looking to build my own off-grid solar GMRS repeater on a hill

[@weirdsciencetv4999]

Thats absolutely amazing. I have always wanted to do something just like this!

[@yy5cav]

Una instalación pristina y muy ordenada felicitaciones !

[@MetaLexxer]

Just started following your channel. Excellent content and very informative. Thanks!

[@andrewevanoff1192]

Great video. I have been searching for something similar for a while. This gave me some ideas. I love how they enclosed the grounding rod connection so it can be inspected. I have also been looking for a decent low voltage DC surge protector. Now I know what professional sites use. I have also been using Polyphaser brand on all of my antenna cables. Single point ground is essential for proper grounding. Thanks for your time to put it up. BTW, I laughed about the 800 "Mega-Hurt" radio. LOL. Cheers!

[@dhl5042]

Very nice video, very nice installation. Looks like my old drive over the Angeles Crest Hwy (Palmdale to Pasadena work commute). Now retired and long commutes are over and ham radio projects are in the queue.... Doug, K5DHL

[@haze541bsn]

thank you for posting this is the kind of video I have been looking for forever subscriber gained

[@daa3417]

Quite the spray day from those aircraft, lucky you. But that is a very clean setup, well done.

[@2string861]

Man your videos are super interesting! I'm 15 and I hope that I can get a job in RF comms someday

[@jflueger]

Looks like a Daniels 400 meg repeater. Used many of them to replace the old Radio Specialties repeaters. Kinda old school.

[@ChrisGrantForReal]

Really nice walk through. Thank you!

[@reallybadaim118]

Cool vid. Where I live summers are very hot and long. 110 outside would be cooking the internals.

[@GateKommand]

Another good video mate.........thank you; Another band that we have here in the UK that may be useful in that terrain is 4m (70.00 to 70.50Mhz). Unfortunately you don't have access in the US....maybe one day? Please keep the videos coming!

[@mikemcdonald5147]

I know this is an older video but I'm curious what the grounding item is that hooks up to the outer coax shield?? Whats the name of the item so I know what to google to look for so I may purchase them. Hope that makes sense.

[@elfnetdesigns702]

That setup is very similar to the setup we put in Vegas as a system transition setup. They just went 700 MHz trunking opensky and we cross band repeated the 700 MHz Info talkgroup into a rental VHF-Hi band repeater set on their old VHF Info channel ontop of The Stratosphere. Only real difference is we didn't use solar panels up there.

[@archuka1]

Nice video and thanks for the explainations especially ham stuff

[@AfroPrepperPasadena]

Another excellent lesson.

[@scorpiodrg]

Ho my God that's a good job , !! Eres un genio mi hermano !! I wish I could do all that !! I just started to read my arrl book !!!🏍️

[@waswestkan]

How thick is the wall om that mast to keep the yagi on point during the wind? With the panel antennas and the solar panels there's a lot to catch the wind high up. Any particular reason the solar panels where mounted on the top of the cabinets? I guess as it is few will attempt to steal the solar panels.

[@GUERRILLACOMM]

At the base its about 3 inches thick then it tapers and gets thinner on top to about an inch. takes little effort to sway the pole when pushed from the top. The 2 sites shown are in a low wind area. Since then they have stopped using the Fiberglas pole for steel for the same reason you mentioned. the panels are mounted high on the pole to prevent theft & vandalism. Thanks for watching.

[@CCWSig]

Nice video, thanks for posting

[@n3lee]

Curious what the fiberglass poles were? (Utility poles, lighting poles, or telecomm specific poles?) Been looking for good setups to drop in for satellite receiver systems atop various hilltops as our topography varied here in NH as well. You commented that you replaced fiberglass for steel -- all 35'?

[@GUERRILLACOMM]

Its a plain utility pole made by Shakespeare, for some reason that does not instill confidence for a utility pole made by a fishing pole company. lol. No, the existing sites will remain FG, future sites will be steel. The FG are 35 feet, dont know what the steel height will be.

[@TheReconPrepper]

+GUERRILLACOMM yeah but think how far you could cast with that thing LOL

[@GUERRILLACOMM]

Forget Marlins, I'm gonna hook Godzilla. lol

[@RP4886]

Is that on hwy 49? Near Yosemite?

[@GUERRILLACOMM]

They're all over the place statewide.

[@RP4886]

@@GUERRILLACOMM wow, I wasn't expecting a reply, and so fast. I've been watching your videos non stop for days. I just picked up a pair of cdm750. Putting together a portable repeater. Thanks for the knowledge

[@dr8627]

how much do these cost to make

[@davidgrant2725]

love the video. How do you prevent someone from stealing all this in the middle of the night?

[@GUERRILLACOMM]

This particular one is inside a gated yard. But others out in the open have been broken into and the batteries stolen. They are putting locked gates around them all now.

[@ActontheActorIsDead]

great stuff

[@Elfnetdesigns]

12VDC is not very efficient in terms of solar power and storage. 24VDC is a better more efficient way to go with your 12 volt cells in series/parallel, but if you MUST have a 12 volt system then you should be using 6 volt AGM type batteries in a series / parallel configuration. I have put up several of these type of sites across the southern US as DC or Tone remote transmitter/repeaters stations and SCADA sites.

[@KandiKlover]

I also use 4 225ah batteries

[@Hfirefighter5]

nice vid

[@SteveWrightNZ]

A direct strike is going to fry almost everything, and there won't be much negotiating that. Surprising to see an old technology PWM solar controller in there, and such small panels - it's obviously not getting much traffic and the rx current must be quite low.

[@n3lee]

PWM controllers are still popular with radio systems; as high frequency charge currents inducing more than 100mv ripple can cause issues at a radio site if there isn't a DC to DC converter with adequate capacitor bank available... been through that one already and had to revert back to a much less expensive charge controller to work around the issue.

[@KandiKlover]

Nice but i can get 250 watts off just a single one my solar panels. But i have 4. Charges the battery bank fast even on cloudy bad weather days.

[@yager4092]

Great vid. Good info. No great info

[@whywhy6148]

chem trails