LEARNING CURVE
Boost me up, Sparky! Well, okay, admittedly my article’s title is a cheesy word play of the familiar command, “Beam me up, Scotty,” from Captain James T. Kirk of Star Trek fame. If tele-transportation, or teleportation for short, was available, I’m betting ham radio operators would play a major role in its development. Conceptually, teleportation involves changing matter into energy, moving it from point A to point B and then correctly changing the energy back into matter. Although, there have been some successful experiments teleporting photons short distances; Star Trek’s transporter is still very much in the realm of sci-fi. However, there is a device, very useful to hams, that will “transform” (boost) a lower voltage to a higher one. It’s called a battery booster.
Battery Booster?
A battery booster? This is a very handy device to have while operating a station using battery-generated power. Battery boosters are also known as DC/DC step-up power converter regulators. MFJ markets one such device as Super Battery Booster Model MFJ4416B (). West Mountain Radio offers its own version as the Super Booster #58515-1777. Other models, with less current>.
