Station Equipment
The kit. Transceivers, antennas, paddles, and the things in the second pannier.
transceiver
Icom IC-705
Icom · IC-705
All-mode, all-band QRP portable transceiver. Backpack-friendly, big colour touchscreen, built-in D-STAR and GPS. The daily driver.
Portable / Field Use
10 W
160m80m40m30m20m17m15m12m10m6m2m70cm
SSBCWFT8FT4AMFM
antenna
End-fed Half-wave 40-10
Homebrew · EFHW 40-10
Twenty metres of wire on a Kevlar winder with a 49:1 UnUn. The field workhorse — multiband, light, and forgiving of imperfect sky hooks.
Portable / Field Use
25 W
40m20m15m10m
SSBCWFT8
power
Bioenno 6Ah LiFePO4
Bioenno · BLF-1206A
A 12.8V 6Ah LiFePO4 pack — four hours of QRP airtime, fits in the top of a pannier, and doesn’t mind a cold morning.
Portable / Field Use