{"id":49637,"date":"2021-07-18T10:33:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T14:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49637"},"modified":"2021-07-18T10:33:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T14:33:50","slug":"a-simple-guide-to-portable-radio-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/a-simple-guide-to-portable-radio-power\/","title":{"rendered":"A simple guide to portable radio power"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/em>Over on QRPer.com<\/a>, I just published a post on portable power that was The Spectrum Monitor<\/a> magazine’s April 2021 cover article.<\/p>\n

This article is essentially an overview of a few different types of rechargeable batteries including pros and cons of each chemistry.<\/p>\n

While this article focuses on use in ham radio field applications, it also applies to anyone powering receivers–especially those without an internal power supply–in the field.<\/p>\n

Click here to read at QRPer.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over on QRPer.com, I just published a post on portable power that was The Spectrum Monitor magazine’s April 2021 cover article. This article is essentially an overview of a few different types of rechargeable batteries including pros and cons of each chemistry. While this article focuses on use in ham radio field applications, it also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4199,545,3,43],"tags":[486,7476,7970,4135,4145,1845,484,9369],"class_list":["post-49637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-batteries","tag-external-battery-packs","tag-lifepo-batteries","tag-lithium-batteries","tag-lithium-batteries-primer","tag-qrper-com","tag-rechargeable-batteries","tag-sla-batteries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cUB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44828,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/any-advice-on-compact-lipo-batteries-in-ear-earphones-with-volume-control-and-portable-amplified-speakers\/","url_meta":{"origin":49637,"position":0},"title":"Any advice on compact Lipo batteries, in-ear earphones with volume control, and portable amplified speakers?","author":"Thomas","date":"August 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post readers: I originally published the following post on QRPer.com. 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