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Unfortunately it is not fully solar - it is as far as it can go, but then it is connected to a home router connected to mains etc.


I do have a fully solar powered VPN gateway/LTE router/web server/Wi-Fi relay - in my case, it’s out of necessity, as I live in a deep valley, and the only way I could get internet access here was to stick a mast on top of a hill with an IP67 box of goodies and a solar panel and battery, and an LPDA and yagi antenna for LTE and 802.11n respectively. The web server isn’t public, but fulfils a few important functions for me.


Sounds like our local ham relay station. On the top of the mountain, solar and deep cycle batteries, and a radio relay. All housed in a cheap little shack.

I was last up there around '98 to help top off the batteries with water, but it's still running strong today.


this sounds really cool


Some more info:

https://gallatinhamradio.com/repeaters/BozemanAreaRepeaters.... <- The Bridger Ridge one the one I went to.

Some of those repeaters will let you patch into the phone system. It's slick stuff, but I haven't worked with it for a few decades now.


Cool. Do you have a writeup of what you made and how?


If you want to nitpick go all the way.

It's fully solar because a long time ago the sun got hot and the solar system got put together and that combination resulted in life and then later some sample of that life built a website with materials extracted from what the sun did to the original mess.


Nitpick++: A fair percentage of electricity in the world is powered by other stars, because Uranium didn’t come from our star.


Ah, coool. But it's still fair to say it's solar powered, right ? Just not our sun ?


Not really. The transuranics are believed to be mostly created during supernovas (core-collapse supernova nucleosynthesis) and neutron star mergers.

Those events are not particularly similar to our sun's normal solar radiation.

I think you are grasping at straws (although I'll be honest I don't know what that literally means). And I think the word solar really only applies to our own sun.


Thanks for the explanation :).

> I think you are grasping at straws (although I'll be honest I don't know what that literally means).

Yup, I tried all I could ^^.

> And I think the word solar really only applies to our own sun.

So be it then. In scifi they always talked about sol-3 anyway and caspix-9, etc..




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