marcspaz Posted August 20, 2022 Report Share Posted August 20, 2022 I was playing out in the woods today, supporting a 12k race, and I had this monster in the truck to extend range. I know some of you have some portable setups. I figured it would be fun to share them here. Especially if it's a bit unconventional. Whatcha got? WRUU653 and kerstuff 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lscott Posted August 20, 2022 Report Share Posted August 20, 2022 4 hours ago, marcspaz said: I was playing out in the woods today, supporting a 12k race, and I had this monster in the truck to extend range. I know some of you have some portable setups. I figured it would be fun to share them here. Especially if it's a bit unconventional. Whatcha got? You by any chance ever forget to drop the mast before driving off? That setup make a great tree branch trimmer. marcspaz and DeoVindice 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcspaz Posted August 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2022 1 hour ago, Lscott said: You by any chance ever forget to drop the mast before driving off? That setup make a great tree branch trimmer. Thankfully I have not. That would be one expensive tree trim, that's for sure. LoL Lscott 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axorlov Posted August 21, 2022 Report Share Posted August 21, 2022 Don't have pictures, sorry. My portable setup is FT-817ND + Emtech ZM-2 manual tuner + 20ft telescoping fishing pole + about 60ft of wire. It is more a hiking setup, than a car setup. I'm currently building 3500mAh batteries from cheap LiPO chinese cells that will fit into the FT817 battery compartment. Three of these batteries will serve me for a week, easily, without needing for recharge. I'm not really interested in contests, SOTA and such, the setup is mostly to have a reliable comms to base camp, and sooth my thirst for an engineering challenge of having a reliable comms when resources are limited. marcspaz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRUT329 Posted October 6, 2022 Report Share Posted October 6, 2022 Yaesu 2m, 20Ah LiPo battery, 30w solar panel, roll-up ladder-line J pole antenna. 30' telescopic mast (painter's extension pole). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sshannon Posted October 6, 2022 Report Share Posted October 6, 2022 Which Yaesu 2 meter xceiver? I couldn’t zoom in enough to read it and I’m not familiar enough with the different models to know it off the top of my head. My first thought was the ft-2980r, but the specs said 80 watts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAF6045 Posted October 6, 2022 Report Share Posted October 6, 2022 8 hours ago, Sshannon said: Which Yaesu 2 meter xceiver? I couldn’t zoom in enough to read it and I’m not familiar enough with the different models to know it off the top of my head. My first thought was the ft-2980r, but the specs said 80 watts. Probably the predecessor FT-2900r HRO catalog entry for the 2980 has: Quote ... feature configuration and mechanical toughness of the ever popular FT-2900R, with output power now at 80W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PACNWComms Posted October 9, 2022 Report Share Posted October 9, 2022 I have an old Motorola Spectra repeater kit that I used for when out and about. Subscriber units can be whatever one brings though, shown here with my Motorola XPR7550e and Anytone "878" as examples. This along with a tripod, a couple of deep cycle marine batteries on an RV tray (let's you connect two batteries in an easier to move sled type of configuration, and a dipole antenna 20 feet in the air gets signals out well enough. I also have an old GR300 desktop repeater that had Motorola GM120 radios in it initially, after putting XPR4550 mobile Trbo TDMA radios in it, I now have narrowband and two slot TDMA possibilities in a portable package. Lots of possibilities when it comes to portable comms. marcspaz, Sshannon and gortex2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sshannon Posted October 9, 2022 Report Share Posted October 9, 2022 On 10/6/2022 at 12:12 PM, KAF6045 said: Probably the predecessor FT-2900r HRO catalog entry for the 2980 has: No, the 2900R had 75 watts; the 2980 increased the output to 80 w. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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