Radioactive Camping Tips
Posted by My Biodota | Posted in | Posted on 7:51 AM
Camping with Ham Radio is fun, but twice as complicated as just camping. There are two lists of things not to forget, the camping stuff and the radio stuff.
It helps if you have a special bag to pack antenna parts and supplies and another special case in which to put the rig. You can double check that everything needed, such as all cables, are in with the rig and accessories in the same box. The same with the antenna supplies, you can double check that as well. Then you only have to remember the rig box and the antenna sack, instead of all the little pieces already checked off and verified to be in the two larger units.
Small dome tents are nice. For Hawaii the kind that have a screen in the top of the dome, making a skylight are excellent. They come with a rain fly that goes over the top for rain and covers the screen area at the same time. Also pitching the tent in the shade is a great help to avoid that oven-baked effect. If the trades are up you can orient the door to catch the wind and get a ventilation going into the door and out the top.
Ground cloths are highly recommended. Soil will often prove wetter than it looks when you put pressure on it and a nice water proof tarp sort of ground cloth is necessary to keep the floor of the tent actually dry.
It helps if you have a special bag to pack antenna parts and supplies and another special case in which to put the rig. You can double check that everything needed, such as all cables, are in with the rig and accessories in the same box. The same with the antenna supplies, you can double check that as well. Then you only have to remember the rig box and the antenna sack, instead of all the little pieces already checked off and verified to be in the two larger units.
Small dome tents are nice. For Hawaii the kind that have a screen in the top of the dome, making a skylight are excellent. They come with a rain fly that goes over the top for rain and covers the screen area at the same time. Also pitching the tent in the shade is a great help to avoid that oven-baked effect. If the trades are up you can orient the door to catch the wind and get a ventilation going into the door and out the top.
Ground cloths are highly recommended. Soil will often prove wetter than it looks when you put pressure on it and a nice water proof tarp sort of ground cloth is necessary to keep the floor of the tent actually dry.
For further Information visit :-http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/uham/camping.html
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