52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2026 - Week 22: Show and Tell: Your manpack
Challenge for 2026-05-25 - 2026-05-31
Category: 🧑🤝🧑 - Difficulty: 🟠
Show and Tell: Your manpack
What is your go to portable equipment? If you don't have a manpack yet, why don't you build one? If you can't build one: What would your ideal manpack look like? Transceiver? Power? Backup logging? Antennas? The backpack itself? Let us know
Toots mentioning this challenge
| Date | User | User Score | Status | Toot Summary & Link |
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| May 28, 2026 07:06 UTC | DO3EET@mastodon.hams.social | 1 | Working on it... | @hamchallenge HC22 I think it looks quite good. ICOM 705, a framework notebook, an empty coke container, tripod and a power pack with 600W and the toybox antenna. Backup radio is my Kennwood handheld radio. I don't mark it as completed... As in hobby you are never done |
| May 31, 2026 11:27 UTC | kc9red@mastodon.radio | 1 | Success! | @hamchallenge HC22S
Although my POTA activation yesterday didn't go as planned, I can still show off my QRP pack:
Outside: 15 feet of ABR Industries ABR316 coax
Inside: QRP Labs QMX+ transceiver, small tripod, Digirig USB cable and USB-C to DC power cable, Nitecore 5000 mAh power bank, and Ham Radio Duo Just OK Mini antenna
Need to get a microphone for this now that the QMX will do SSB |
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