Foundations Of Amateur Radio

Foundations of Amateur Radio Planning for an outing Recently I had the opportunity to use a new radio whilst I was far away from my shack. It wasn't unexpected, I took the radio with me, planned for the experience and packed light with intent. My original packing included a 10m length of coax, my analyser, some antenna weights, wire, rope, power leads, BNC adaptors, barrel connectors and a balun. Total weight came in at about 7kg. More than double the weight of the radio itself. The biggest weight came with the coax, so that stayed home. Got rid of all the "what-if" adaptors, dumped the antenna weights, dumped the balun and the analyser, added an un-un, and a multimeter and came in at just under 5kg. The idea was to operate from the car, chuck a long-wire into a tree and make noise. Then I got to where I was going and learnt that there were lots of SOTA peaks nearby. If you're not familiar with SOTA, it stands for Summits On The Air and it's a way of encouraging people to go out and make noise while also