SAR Gear

Cross-Posts on Batteries, Chargers and Light Sources

adam — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:22:22 +0000

I have a couple of posts on my personal blog that I thought should be reproduced here:

Thanks,

Getting Into APRS

Nic — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:26:16 +0000

well, with Peter’s airplane demo last week, and now Adam’s find on mikewren.com. I have decided I need to jump on board. I going to set up for mobile and portable.

for portable, I’m going to set it up to use either with my VX6 or my old FT50. I’ll use the FT50 when I need my VX6 for voice and the VX6, when I’m hiking. It’s got to very small tracker, which will display on my Garmin map60cx. Maybe someday ill get a VX8 for for now this should be good enough.

For the mobile, I have 2 tnc option, one is pc based when i have the mobile laptop going, they other is getting a tracker and gettting it to interface with my kenwood/garmin in dash just like it would on nuvi.. Radio wise, option 1 is to use 1 of the 2 ft7800 in the truck or option 2 which is to install my old ft8100, with the option to switch to one of the ft7800.

Nic

Comet Dual-Band Fold-Over Antenna

Nic — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:21:01 +0000

So my puppy chewed the last 2 inches off my stock vx6 antenna. I have 3 extras, a diamond RH-3 about 1.75 inch long but its bnc. also have a 17inch bnc i think its MFJ, and a comet i think about 17in superflex whip. I am looking for something in the 3-8 inch to replace the stock. any suggestions?

While parousing the Comet website, they have a mobile dualband antenna CA-2x4SR made for search and rescue here are the specs. I think im gona replace my truck ones with these. They are fold downs so will be good for me and underground parking.. the only problem is i have NMO mounts and there are PL289

CA-2x4SR

BROADBAND VHF/UHF Dual Band Antenna

CA-2×4SR: Designed to assist Search & Rescue Volunteers and Professionals
1.5:1 or less SWR: 140-160/435-465MHz
Gain: 3.8/6.2dBi
Max Power: 150 watts
Length: 40 inches
Connector: PL-259
Fold-over hinge included

The CA-2x4SR is a broad-band antenna designed for those needing voice communications on the ham radio, land mobile, and FRS frequency ranges.

When the amateur radio community is working together with local search and rescue and other public service agencies, the CA-2x4SR antenna allows TX and RX capability in both bands!

The coverage area and gain provided by the CA-2x4SR is remarkable. Whether used on VHF or UHF or both, it is an asset to the communications needs of amateurs and land mobile users simultaneously.

Framepacks

sartech — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:42:41 +0000

Do any of you have opinions and or sources of lightweight external framepacks, perhaps with a logical/fast/easy mounting system for gear bags? I am looking to experiment with one that could carry my gear in one or two attached bags and also mount a 5/8 wave mobile whip on. Preferable not in cammo colours

Peter