Best UHF/VHF HT for emergency transmission?

bc_fjc

Observer
Well my kit is a little bigger but here it is http://photoshare.shaw.ca/messages/viewthumb/12247532321-1201799503-72046/parm/page/1/15/

Everything fits in to a Pelican 1550 case

On the top we have a FT-857 VHF/UHF/HF radio, Sigalink USB for Digital comunitcations, Back - High Sierra antenna controler for HF antenna, FT-8800 VHF/UHF dual bander w/xband repeat.

In the bottom back, we have a PWRgate PG40S to control the power to the radios, a 20AH Sealed Battery, an Alinco DM-330MVT AC power supply

In the bottom front I keep the manuals, assorted cables and tools, a small mag mount VHF/UHF antenna, an LDG Z-11 antenna tunner with a long wire antenna

The other part of the kit is the High Sierra Frontier Antenna System

It takes about 10-15 minutes to deply with HF and under 5 minutes with VHF/UHF 99% of that is setting up the antennas and routing the antenna cables.

My thoughts when putting this together was for uses once at camp allowing both HF and UHF/VHF communication to the outside world in both Voice and Digital modes. But also for emergancy use and base camp repeater if there where no other repeaters in the area.
 

cawddsasf

Explorer
I've got a VX-7R and I love it. I've got a tri-band antenna on it, 2m, 70cm, and 6m. 6M is useless though unless you hit the local repeater.

If you get one, get the black. I got the silver and now it's trying to turn black anyway.

I've had good luck (in terms of distance) using a j-pole antenna on 2m with the vx-7r. ~100 miles on mid power.
 

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