Probably the biggest limiter will be the LCD. LCDs do not like cold temperatures - anything below freezing can be a problem, but below 10 degrees they tend to stop working and turn black. Yes, the do recover when it gets warm - usually.
I wouldn’t want to subject my station to anything below freezing (or close, for that matter). But then I wouldn’t have moved from Silicon Valley to frozen New Hampshire either… ;-) For the record, Bill and I are good friends - we are both WVARA and NCCC members, and we used to live just a few miles apart... 73! Jack, W6FB > On Jan 5, 2020, at 12:50 PM, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've never seen an operating temperature spec for any ham equipment. When we > built our remote station (K3/KPA1500 in an insulated 20 ft shipping > container), my main concern was not so much temperature as condensation. > Moisture is a slow-motion disaster for unsealed, uncoated circuit boards. > Ventilation can help, but there are times when everything is going to be > soaking wet. And then there’s dust. So we added a Mitsubishi 1-ton mini-split > heat pump with the sepoints pretty wide (55 and 80 F). It doesn't run much > but the equipment is dry and clean. Themostat is a Nest, controlled from an > app. > > Gary NA6O > >> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 14:26:11 -0500 >> From: Bill Frantz <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> Subject: [Elecraft] Radio and amplifier environmental specifications >> >> I'm trying to specify what is needed for a radio room here at >> the Rivermead continuing care community. If I place an amplifier >> or a radio (K3 w/remote rig or a K4) in a shack near the >> antenna, what are the environmental requirement for that shack? >> What temperature range, since the minimum weather shelter might >> range from -20F (-30C) to 100F (40C)? What about humidity? >> >> I couldn't find a specification in my copy of the K3S manual and >> I haven't tried the KPA1500/KPA500/KAT500 manuals. >> >> Does anyone know the specs? >> >> TIA & 73 Bill AE6JV > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
