Busy building my check list that nothing gets left behind on Saturday!
Logistics
Five man Tent (Able to stand)
Fold up table
Fold up chair
Fold up stretcher
Fold up mattress
Sleeping bag
Gas bottle – Sufficient gas!
Gas lantern attachment
Firelighter!
Cooler bag – Food and water / cool drink (for two days)
GPS and Compass (Optional)
Warm clothing!
Warm Jacket
Track suit
Beanie
Gloves
Socks
Spare clothing
Easy sleep – anti mosquito!
Power and lighting
2 x LED Headlamps – New batteries
Waeco (18 A/Hr SLAB) – Charged
2 x 7 A/Hr SLAB’s – Charged
Homebrew FT-817ND power cable with crocodile clips (Beware polarity)
1 x 7 A/Hr SLAB (for backpack) – Charged
Rechargeable penlights – Charged
Blogging and ops reporting (Spare time, if any, blogging)
Netbook – Charged
Spare netbook battery – Charged
Wireless mouse – New AAA battery
Smartphone (Spare time internet gateway) – Charged
PAYG Data bundle
Camera – New battery!
Masts and antenna supports
Eskom mast
3 x Guy ropes + carbiners (for Eskom mast)
3 x “7” shaped Tent pegs (for Eskom mast)
10m Qick deployment fibreglass RaDAR mast
2 x Heavy duty bungies (for fibreglass mast)
2 x Paint roller handles (serves as a 4.5m mast / two hiking poles)
Joining tube (for paint roller handle mast)
Optional short guy ropes (for paint roller handle mast)
Rope (serves as a third guy wire for quick inverted vee format antenna deployments with the paint roller mast)
Bungi’s (shock absorption to protect wire antennas where needed)
Spare small carbiners
Small pulleys (Optional)
Antennas
Webb FST 400 including mast mountable balun http://webb.co.za/pdf/Fst%204004R-25R%20S3.pdf
Open wire fed W3EDP
Open wire fed (300 ohm) random length dipole
LDG 4:1 Balun (for above antenna and W3EDP)
Coax (PL259’s both ends)
Various Coax fly leads
Various coax adapters
Shortend 9:1 UNUN fed, multiband end fed
Trap dipole 40m / 80m
Trap dipole 30m / 20m / 10m + fixed coax
Roll up wire 10m J-Pole
Various tie ropes
Extra wire (for possible 160m deployments)
Terminal blocks (joining wires)
Tent pegs (securing antennas in the absence of natural tie down facilities)
Radio equipment
FT817ND Multiband QRP radio
LDG z817 comapnion auto ATU – With 4 x spare AA penlight batteries
Hand mic
Headphones
Heil Traveler headset + boom mic (Optional)
MP3 recorder
Headphone jack splitter
Administration
Programmed frequencies (HF channels)
2 x Operations log (RaDAR / Portable)
2 x Message lists (RaDAR / Portable)
5 x GOOD Pens
Notepad
Watch – accurately timed
Tools and testers
Multimeter
Multitool
Knife
Measuring tape
Shifting spanner
Flat screwdriver
