2023 Bandera 100K Aid Station YAYA - How We Set Up Our Ham Radio Station & Powered Everything 12v

In this video, we give you a brief tour of Aid Station YAYA during the 2023 Bandera 100k Race out in the Hill Country State Natural Area Park. We ran a small suitcase style generator, a Predator 2.2k, to charge our 12v 100AHr AGM battery (normally used for our solar panel setup). We got 7.5 hours of run time for the generator per fill up and we used Ethanol Free fuel (rated @ 90 octane). We only had one LED 1000 watt light connected (mostly to provide a steady load on the generator) and a Schumacher 12v battery charger (that kept our battery topped off in trickle mode).

Traffic cones don't work at night very well, unless you illuminate them. We put some Harbor Freight pop up lamps (3-AA battery powered) inside of each cone to light them up. We ended up using 6 AA batteries each, by the time sunrise got here, because they only lasted about 7-8 hours per set.

The last runner on the 100k course didn't arrive until around 6:30am, so we stayed awake and powered up all night, about 15 hours of operation all together.