Lightweight Field Comms Kit

Complete all band digital communications kit in under 8 lbs? Here it is:

• Lab 599 TX-500 radio

• MFJ 9201 QRPocket Manual Tuner

• Bioenno 3AH battery

• Digirig data modes interface plus associated cables, power & USB ETC.

• 15' coax + choke

• Balun, 73' antenna wire + 25' counterpoise from the Chameleon MPAS system. This gives me a 1.0:1 match on 80, 2.5:1 on 40, and 2.2:1 on 20. Both easily matched using the tuner.

• Paracord, insulators, jumpers.

• 16 oz throw weight. Ounces are pounds & pounds = pain, but this pound is worth carrying for the ability to quickly get your antenna up HIGH. launching the wire up 35- 40 feet using cordage and what's in your environment is a next to impossible task, but quickly and easily done with the throw weight.

• Leave the computer at home and save weight by running an Android device (Pixel 6) with ANDFLMSG which gives you all the keyboard to keyboard functionality like Contestia 4/250 and MFSK 32 and the file transfer ability from FLMSG.

Set up as an end fed inverted V, which is my go-to configuration, radiation patterns observed in the real world tend to match the modeled patterns.

80:

40:

And 20: