Certainly - Orange have a wind/solar radio site in the Elan Valley in Wales, and another one with fuel cells in Scotland, and many hundreds of solar ones in Africa! A combination of alternative power sources is to be recommended (not often much wind when its sunny and vice versa).<div>
<br></div><div>Mobile phone sites are really inefficient and need loads of power, so in contrast powering a small FM transmitter should definitely be in the do-abale category. If power-down overnight was acceptable it would make it even easier.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Probably not cheap though - then again neither are new power supplies to remote locations.<br><div><br></div><div>Glyn</div><div><a href="http://www.a-bc.co.uk">www.a-bc.co.uk</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 24 June 2011 00:23, claire penketh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clairepenketh@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">clairepenketh@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit"> What about a wind powered transmitter? Is that a possibility?<br>
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<div> Claire Penketh</div>
<div>Better to have given it a go than never to have tried at all</div>
<div> </div><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 23/6/11, Ian Hickling <i><<a href="mailto:transplanfm@hotmail.com" target="_blank">transplanfm@hotmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
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To: <a href="mailto:studio@ravensoundradio.co.uk" target="_blank">studio@ravensoundradio.co.uk</a>, "cma-l" <<a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a>><br>Date: Thursday, 23 June, 2011, 21:58<div>
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<div>Interesting as all this is, it doesn't address the question of where you get mains power when there isn't any.<br>We've run a complete RSL using solar and wind power where the combined sources produce 240V AC and you simply use a moderate amount of standard equipment.<br>
<br>I've always been of the opinion that it is so wasterful to power all modern solid-state equipment from 240V AC when each one then transforms down and rectifies to a mutiplicity of DC supples of around 18V and below.<br>
<br>How logical it would be if they all could be operated off 12V DC which is the universally-available voltage present in vehicles and relatively cheap bulk-delivery batteries!<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38)">Ian Hickling<br></span></b><b><span>Partner<br>transplan UK<br></span></b></p></div><br> <br>
<div>> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:30:24 +0100<br>> From: <a href="mailto:studio@ravensoundradio.co.uk" target="_blank">studio@ravensoundradio.co.uk</a><br>> To: <a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [cma-l] Mains power where there ain't any!<br>> <br>> Another one, Pocket Wifi, which takes any data sim, you need to know the <br>> network ID (listed online), it has a mobile sized battery and connects <br>
> up to five wifi network devices. It's the size of a small mobile with <br>> built in display and web interface is stand-alone so you can hang it in <br>> a tree if the 3g is a long way off.<br>> <br>> Regards, Tony<br>
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> > other manufacturers) can use a mobile phone dongle for web access<br>> > which would mean that you can
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