Emergency Gear (cont.)
EMERGENCY BAG:
- DAYBAG
- Neck lanyard pocket with $20 cash, credit card/s, photo ID, dog tags
- A second HT with battery packs, A4 battery case, gel cell battery unit with charger
- Speaker mic and/or headset for second HT
- Operating manual for second I-IT
- DC adapter cables with Power Pole connectors for brick amplifiers and HTs
- Ten foot 10 gauge twin lead extension cable with in-line fuses
- 2 Meter brick amplifier
- Gain antennas for HTs (telescoping half-wave Larsen and flexible dual band Comet CH-72, 1/4 VHF and 5/8 wave UHF).
- Gel cell batteries for amplifier (enough batteries for 8 hours of operation at 25% duty cycle)
- Jumper cables for HT to Amplifier connections
- Cable ties (12 large and 12 small) minimum
- BNC to SO-239 adapters, BNC to BNC barrels, BNC to SMA adapters, SO-239 to SM? adapters
- Compass and/or hand held GPS unit
- Pencils, pens, paper, notebooks, permanent marker
- Masking tape (for marking cables)
- Duct tape (for hanging cables)
- Good flashlight (Mag Lite style) or LED flashlight, spare batteries
- Spare fuses for all powered equipment
- Additional personal care items, shave, toothbrush, etc...
- RACES or ARES manual
- Frequency charts, operating frequencies, repeater locations and PL tone codes
- Three days worth of clothing, towel, blanket and/or sleeping bag
- 1 gallon of water for each day in the field
- Food that doesn’t require cooking or refrigeration, soup1 beans, tuna, juices, fruit, pean butter, jelly, hard candy, instant coffee, tea, Sterno for warming food, military MREs
- Personal medications
- Disaster Service Worker ID card
- Tool
kit with channel locks, wire stripper/crimping tool, needle
nose pliers, screwdrivers
Small VOM and SWR meter - Collection of crimp on connectors and splices, crimp on BNC connectors, wire, coax, r tape, butane soldering iron.
Portions of this article appeared
us “Field Forum”, published by the ARRL