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Certainly Jay: ReVision Energy. They have offices and installations in at least Maine, NH, and Mass (https://www.revisionenergy.com/). They are not the cheapest, but they were very helpful and not pushy. We have a number of friends who have also been happy with them.
As I recall, I brought up the RFI question when we first talked to them, and the first person was not familiar ham radio. However, he did some checking around and determined that they had at least one other installation at a ham’s QTH, and offered me a chance to talk to him. In any case, their solution was as I said above, and that seemed to work well for both the other customer and me. But again, my distances may be more the fix than the actual chokes.
73, Burns WB1FJ
I have rooftop solar, and it gives me no problems, but my situation may be different. First, the panels are on my garage (faces south) which is on the far end of the house from my shack. Second, the actual Enphase box and the breaker box where it is all tied in is on the opposite side near my shack. Thus having a string inverter in the Enphase box seemed a bit risky. The solar company had had experience with this sort of thing and so we DID use microinverters on the panels (longest distance from the shack) and they pre-installed ferrite chokes on each inverter.
I have no problem. But the other thing to say is that I do mostly satellite work, so I am on the 2m and 70cm bands exclusively. Not sure where the majority of the interference usually happens.
BTW, search around for Bob Bruninga on the web. (The inventor of APRS.) He is also interested in solar and has a lot to say about it.
Ham radio and scouting goes back a long ways as I recall. Isn’t there a merit badge for it? I seem to remember it being common in Boy’s Life articles many years ago when I was getting it.
Yep, I started with an MFJ. Too many problems.
I don’t need one very often, but I have this one: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B06VVVCKN8
Not especially well known, the user interface is awful, but it is inexpensive and works ok for an occasional check on things.
The contact made NH Public Radio! https://www.nhpr.org/post/nashua-students-connect-outer-space-home#stream/0
Are you actually thinking you need to program your HT on the road? I think I would look up what I might need ahead of time, use the programming software at home to add the repeaters and such that I wanted in my HT on the road. Of course maybe your itinerary is a bit too flexible for that.
Certainly echotest checks only the user’s EchoLink installation and the network connection (local firewalls etc). But I have definitely successfully connected to and used N1IMO over iPhone Echolink in the past, so *never worked* is not correct.
Given the penchant of the iPhone to upgrade versions frequently, I’d guess that the iPhone app changed in some incompatible way with whatever version is on N1IMO (maybe older?). It will be interesting to see if Android and PC versions eventually stop working as upgraded code gets migrated to them, or if it is forever an iPhone-only bug.
N1IMO does an enormous amount for the local ham community and for our club in particular, so we should not push them too hard if at all. Upgrading a big and probably complex system of internet-linked repeaters is way different from upgrading an iPhone.
Very odd. Something has changed. I do not use Echolink that much but I certainly HAVE used it with N1IMO in the past.
If anyone wants the local repeaters and a few satellites pre-done for Chip, you can get my copy here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tp0ca39bsdmshgt/AABkTGBR18ox48UFXNPXUudWa?dl=0
This should be similar to the memories that the club sets up if you bring your radio to an event and ask to have it programmed. As the previous reply said, in Chirp you first have to download your radio into Chirp, then import this CSV file, add it to the radio, and then write it back to the radio.
BTW, to save Fred the trouble, he recommends RT-Systems. I had to buy a copy of that for my IC9700 and yes, it works fine, is a bit easier to use, and has more features; its biggest problem is that you have to buy a copy for each different radio, although when you buy it with the connector it is not much more than the connector alone.
I happen to have a number of radios as well as all the connectors, and I don’t mind a bit of fiddling, so Chirp is more economical for me. Not to mention, it works on Linux 🙂 I use it on a Kenwood TS-2000, TH-F6, TH-D72, Baofeng F8-HP, and Yaesu FT-817.
73 de WB1FJ