My primary SOTA rig is the Steve Weber (KD1JV) ATS4b. (185g)
This is a 5 band CW rig covering 40 - 15 metres at approx 4 to 5 Watts O/P.
Power is supplied by a 1000mAH Lipo 3 cell battery (89g) or 350mAh 3sS Lipo (47g)
The antenna is an EFHW for the band in operation (linked wire) tuned using a KD1JV L Tuner. (85g)
This is raised on a 7 metre fishing pole.
Keyer is an American Morse Equipment Porta Paddle. (70g)
As back up I also have 2 KD1JV Mountain Top Radios (MTR)
MTR 1 covers 60 and 20 metres. (80g)
MTR 2 covers 30 and 40 metres. (169g)
Backup key is provided by a Palm Pico keyer. (28g)
Logging is done either manually, with Notepad and pencil, or via a Pandora Handheld computer using SOTALog.
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| ATS4b, Lipo Battery, L-Tuner, AME Porta paddle |
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| A small handful. |
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| A Tiny Handful. |
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| AME Porta Paddle |
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| MTR Ver1 (60/20) |
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| MTR Ver2 (30/40) |
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| KD1JV rigs |
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| In the field |
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| Back-up, Palm Pico key. |
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| QRPp funday's setup! Rockmite 20 and UglyMite 40. 500mW O/P |
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| Bicycle Rig |
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| Bicycle rig packed |
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| Logging with a Pandora |
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| Pandora in action |
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| On the mountain (summit shelter) |
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| Bicycle Portable |
Hi Peter, congrats on your SOTA gear!
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73 Viktor HA5LV
Great setup.
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Dom
M1KTA
TKS for QSOs. God Luck.
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Juan
EA1AER
Nice collection of the world's finest portable-ultralight radios ...hope to work you some day with one of my weber rigs via S2S! ...73, Steve wGOAT
ReplyDeleteBrilliant collection of kit Peter. Nice to work you this morning on 40M (using 5W QRP here with indoor dipole in loft!). 73 de Nigel G4BSW Margate
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