Kit wishlist

Ring-fenced budgets

Last updated: 2015-09-21

Budget code 13140002 Operating Consumables £35 => £10.89

Budget code 14150001 Antenna Array £692.70 => 497.89

Current Kit

see Inventory:List

Training Materials

• Exam equipment
  • soldering iron (low priority)
    • if one cant be acquired form ECS
  • Sounder for morse key
  • VHF Dipole for tuning (if the current one isn't owned by the club)
  • New equipment for exams
• Laminated scripts for HF and VHF contact (£5.99 for 100, up to £10 including delivery)

Operating Equipment

• Club HF tuner with dummy load and SWR meter (nice to have SWR with two needle's-no calibration, also dummy load built in)
  • Preferably one of the MFJ ones

• Radio Adapters
  • CI-V interface for IC7000 [1]
  • Composite TO VGA or DVI

• 12v power supply (high priority!)

• paperwork for paperwork box
  • bandplans
  • laminated contact wording sheets for normal and competition
  • laminated Q code cheat sheets
  • Morse code chearsheets

• End fed zep box
  • carabinas * 2
  • Box to contain components

• Tape. Need more tape! High Priority. Up to £20 budget.
  • Gaffer
  • Duck
  • Self-amalgamating
  • (We have enough electrical tape)

• Misc outing gear
  • Rubber Mallet (in mast bag?) High Priority use for EMF camp. Two mallets up to £5.
    • Asda selling mallets for £2
  • Some form of way of throwing things (to be ratified by risk assessment)
  • Folding chairs+table. Low Priority-issue for storage.

• Power pole distro box
  • Build one as part of the group and donate one to the club.

Events Kit

• Out-of-the-box Linux-supported USB sound card with microphone/line input. Electrical isolation on the audio ideal.
• PiSSTV unit (Pi, camera, wire with header connector, USB battery)
• Composite monitor

Tool Kit

• Crimp tool suitable for Anderson Power Poles
  • http://www.radioworld.co.uk/crimping-tool-for-anderson-powerpole-connectors-58568-1049
    • Not going to be damaged easily, radio world well known company.
• Stanley knife
• screwdriver kit. Limited on the number of heads. Low Priority.