Oops I sent that before I'd finished.
Current project is to ruggedize and make portable some ofthe more critical long term radio kit. This includes dedicated HF gear capable of operating on CB frequencies, as well as VHF/ UHF.
I've found myself a surplus Warsaw pact manpack transceiver, the only bit of which interests me is the heavy duty man-pack alloy case, with all of its traps and harnesses. It is fully waterproof in an immersion for 30 minutes + kind of way, and has external waterproof mounts for antennas and speaker mikes.
Inside I have room for three 12v gell cells, Several rigs, spares , anennas, code books an op instructions. If I can find a suitable PV power supply this will be a very good off-grid portable station.
My intention is to keep the sation permanently housed in this pack, even when operating socially from my home. That way, the alloy can behaves as an excellent faraday cage, and the entire setup is good to go should an emergeny arise.
That reminds me NR, your comments about not minding big antennas..... My version 1 of this portable station was based on an old alloy framed ruck sack. I used a rotatable truck mirror antenna mounting and slim line feed coax attached to the frame. This was easily able to carry long, efficient antennas both while walking and even better, with the mount rotated, when the pack was laid on the deck. In both situations the ruck sack frame became the ground plane. Earlier this year, on 14Mhz and 28Mhz we achived more than 150 km range groundwave and international contacts with USA to west and Khazaksthan to the east. We werer also pulling in Hong Kong on 28Mhz at one point, but our peanut 10w power was not able to overcome all ofthe other stations on air at the time.
(2 July 2012, 10:22)NorthernRaider Wrote: Smashing I'm finally starting to get an insight into who LS is 
Now I'm worried!
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