well a very good day everybody i'm on holiday at the moment and i don't know about you but
i'm always fascinated what people take when they go and play radio on holiday right
now i know i'm a bit odd and that i take quite a lot with me but this is kind of the minimum
i've managed to take away with so i've got a dx commander expedition so that this gives me uh
i've got four elements five bands the only thing i'm missing on this is 30 meters and
12 meters i basically get everything else it's 30 foot high 10 meters whatever nice and easy it
took about 10 minutes to put down in fact this antenna was lying in the field literally lying
on the field for a year and i just packed it away and brought it with me still all working
but let's face it it's only bits of wire and stuff isn't it so that's got coax that comes all
the way down back to the house and i just leave the coax here look leave it tucked in there and
shove it in the window so let's go and do that and i'll show you the gear i've got
i won't bother opening the window we'll just plug this straight into the radio
i've got a little power supply here delivering my 13.8 volts that's a little 20 amp switch mode
power supply i bring headphones i've got a ts590 in a laptop the only lead
is i've got the usb between the laptop and the radio let's switch it on and see what's going
on i mean i don't know do many people actually go on holiday with a radio it maybe i'm one of
the few i'm not buying another radio we can buy smaller radios than this can't you but
yeah it's fine and that's the smallest laptop we've got as a family but he does actually run
n1 mm you know contest logo not which i actually use for general logging to be honest
and being you know making you know part of my hobbies i make videos tonight on youtube and
stuff that's why you're watching this so i need the bare minimum to be able to actually record
that's what i've got a camera with me you know i always keep a memory card reader and things
like that and i need a laptop so i can do some reasonable live streaming because otherwise it's
part of my hobbies i really enjoy kicking out a live stream and just you know causing a bit of
a racket no amplifier i'm 100 watt station i fully realize that some people maybe you
you might go away with a little 10 watt rig or a g90 um but the antenna works really
well that packs down pretty small next year i'm thinking to bring in a classic with me because
i'd like to get on 80 or 30 which i can't with the expedition what do you use i mean am i missing a
trick could i could i go without spending any money i can't i don't feel i can actually go
lower than this in terms of its size this all packs down to a couple of plastic boxes you see
and i bought a little um padded bag actually for the nine night for the 590. i have come away with
the 990 before and the acom 2000 but we you get to the point with the two dogs and all our luggage
we're into you know like two cars what you don't know is i've also got this blooming light here
where i'm so it's right in my blooming eyes you can't i'm just a silhouette so i have the light on
as well i mean it's quite not a bad light you know just for to waffling around mike m0msn convinced
me not to bring a headset just to bring the little thingy now i did have room for the pro 7
headset but i still to this day find them too heavy and cumbersome so maybe this maybe there's
a trick maybe there's a light headset i can buy i don't know everything if you know ideas
for a light headset what would i what do you think i should use anyway i'm just interested
in what you have this is what i do right you do something different uh let me know but i
mean i'm not a two-week holiday aren't i so i can you know pack it all down right i think we've got
20 minutes before the end of the king of spain contest so i'll have a blast on there
hello mike gazero mike charlie x-ray charlie x-ray good morning
sorry 548 thank you so much eight sugar zero charlie you're five nine zero six two over
zero zero negative mike zero mike charlie x-ray thank you
okay no problem thank you so much all right
i've never heard that call sign before eight sugar zero charlie
it's funny one there well there he is in the log all right all the best