Comments on: Catching up: 2009 to 2010 http://www.n0hr.com/hamradio_blog/2010/01/24/catching-up-2009-to-2010/ Ham radio towers, software, coax, DXing, contesting, and life in general Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:52:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: pat http://www.n0hr.com/hamradio_blog/2010/01/24/catching-up-2009-to-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-43831 pat Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:18:19 +0000 http://www.n0hr.com/hamradio_blog/?p=792#comment-43831 I live about a mile west of the plant in Ames. Over the past couple years, a lot of PowerFilm products have been shipped to Iraq & Afghanistan. The military likes to reduce the number of trips it makes to resupply generators and one way to do that is with solar power. This month, we've shipped a lot of our flexible solar panels and tents to Haiti. The military makes sure our products get over there fast as power is so badly needed to make other things happen. The "local sales rep" who's a ham is actually their VP of Engineering and a friend of mine. So, now there's two hams on the management team at PowerFilm. Thanks for the comments about PowerFilm though. I hope to get PowerFilm products (like our solar tents) into the hands of many more clubs for next field day! I live about a mile west of the plant in Ames.

Over the past couple years, a lot of PowerFilm products have been shipped to Iraq & Afghanistan. The military likes to reduce the number of trips it makes to resupply generators and one way to do that is with solar power.

This month, we’ve shipped a lot of our flexible solar panels and tents to Haiti. The military makes sure our products get over there fast as power is so badly needed to make other things happen. The “local sales rep” who’s a ham is actually their VP of Engineering and a friend of mine. So, now there’s two hams on the management team at PowerFilm.

Thanks for the comments about PowerFilm though. I hope to get PowerFilm products (like our solar tents) into the hands of many more clubs for next field day!

]]> By: Kevin Sanders, K0KDS http://www.n0hr.com/hamradio_blog/2010/01/24/catching-up-2009-to-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-43812 Kevin Sanders, K0KDS Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:07:02 +0000 http://www.n0hr.com/hamradio_blog/?p=792#comment-43812 PowerFilm is a local company in my neck of the woods, they make outstanding products. They were gracious enough to donate a large solar panel for us to use for Field Day 2009. It was awesome! I hope we can do it again. We also got a club presentation about PowerFilm from a local sales rep that happened to be one of our members. PowerFilm is a local company in my neck of the woods, they make outstanding products. They were gracious enough to donate a large solar panel for us to use for Field Day 2009. It was awesome! I hope we can do it again. We also got a club presentation about PowerFilm from a local sales rep that happened to be one of our members.

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