Hello everyone
Jose here, KD2HHU(Now N2DDD). And I just want to show you today
a little EmComm Pack that I put together. I'd met up with
Akins last year at the LIMARC
HamFest in Long Island and
that got me interested in to doing something
portable and specific I was looking for something
small enough that I could put in the car
in the trunk and not worry about... too much about the gear getting damaged
or wet or... whatnot. So what we got here is a...
I'm using a Nanuk, I think that's how you pronounce it anyways
Nanuk case 905
It's about 12 inches long
by about ten-inches
by 6 inches. So it's a pretty little case
I like the orange color, you can't miss it
when you throw in the trunk or anywhere else so let's open it up and see what we
got there
We got some velcro here on the back where you can just
put in your call sign or
whatever and this is also where would put in the antenna
the antenna mount
as we open it the whole pack includes
everything but the charger right now I have found a little
UPG charger for sealed lead acid batteries
know it has to LED's that I'll tell you if it's charging
or if it's charged and that's the thing I use to charge it at home
another option that I use
if I'm outside it's a little
X-Grade solar panel, it has the uh
charge controller already for 12 volts so
the way you open it up
this is the sole panel, it puts nine watts, it helps you keep the
the battery you know, topped off or
tendered, however you wanna call it so, if you are outside
just plug it in and it will keep your battery
running, while you're not transmitting obviously, so just to keep it topped
of. Inside of the package we got a
dual band telescopic antenna this one in specific is an AL-
800 VHF UHF I had another one
which broke 'cause it was um...
very flimsy. the tip
broke so never mind that one. So we got the
antenna, got the user manual
this is the antenna mount that's gonna
attached to the velcro in the back of the uh
of the lid so basically we just put it in here
attach it and
as we open it
it will stay up there. Um, we got the
JetStream JT270M, little
10 watt dual band radio. This is a little accessory
amp meter, in line amp meter and I only use it for testing purposes cause I know
how much it
draws. We got the microphone, let's plug it in the front of the
radio really quick, and the microphone kinda stands on the handle on the side.
We got the programming cable if needed. We have a
a little coax
patch cable we're gonna put right on the antenna mount
and that one is gonna come out
to the Antenna feed point over here.
so when don't have to go back into the radio.
And that's about it. Throw that in there...
We have some other accessories as well...
If you wanted to use an NMO mount, I have one. Also a little patch cable
to connect LEDs that I have over here for night
operation, and that'll get stuck in there.
This is a 7Amp
sealed lead acid battery
that I got from a Quick Silver Radio
and also from Quick Silver Radio I got these Bat-Mon
topper thing... They just attach the battery,
gives you the voltage and it has two outputs
one fused, and one unfused so, I do have them marked.
Basically we just plug it in and... there it goes.
Turn it on, radio is on, and on the back over here we have
cigarette lighter that help out to
charging. Everything is connected to it,
and two USB ports
if you want to charge your devices so...
...KA2GZ listening...
And that's about it. It's a 10W radio, it puts about 2Amps
just about two amps on high-power
which is 10 wants 1.1A on low-power
5 wants and i think is a about
0.3 Amps
on standby something like that, so that one
with this battery I should be able to get, on high power I should be able to get
two hours of continuous so realistically we're looking for four hours
of normal use time and obviously that's
not counting if you'll have a solar charger, you
know, connected to it and whatnot so, that's it.
KD2HHU testing... and that's the tour of the radio, nice little radio
10 wants... and that's what we've been working on
right now the lights, the LED lights are a little too bright...
very bright so I might just take out these
3 over here and just keep the two on the top 'cause uhm... it was very very bright
<Welcome to
the WB2HWW repeater
system, QNY
That ends the tour. And uh
we'll say 73s for now. KD2HHU
I'll be clear.