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Although many operators owned batteries, today's event suffered from a bad case of "someone else will bring one"
so we only had two batteries to run 3-4 radios. That included my 100AH LIFE and Mark (N8TWO)'s ~30AH LIFE.
One of the radios was running digital, which basically counts double.

The digital radio on 6m was experiencing a pretty severe voltage drop at this point, so I decided to reconfigure
things a bit, moving the EMI filters from the radio feeds to between the solar controller and the battery (to lower
the voltage drop to the digital radio), and moved Mark's smaller battery over to the CW station at the far end of
the shelter to help with the voltage drop over the long power line.

Things finally stabilized after I got the additional solar panels set up and started recharging the batteries.

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