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 from ECS
  • Sounder for morse key
  • VHF Dipole for tuning (if the current one isn't owned by the club)
  • New equipment for exams

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
    • e.g. http://www.radioworld.co.uk/manual_atu/mfj_antenna_tuner/mfj-971_qrp_portable_antenna_tuner
    • http://www.radioworld.co.uk/manual_atu/mfj_antenna_tuner/mfj-945e_mobile_antenna_tuner_
    • http://www.radioworld.co.uk/manual_atu/mfj_antenna_tuner/mfj-941ek-tuner-kit-941e-hf-300-watts-w-cross-meter

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

• 12v power supply (high priority!)
  • Is the one in the cupboard appropriate for our requirements or do we need to buy one?

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

• Tape. Need more tape! High Priority. Up to £20 budget.
  • Gaffer
  • Duck
  • Self-amalgamating
  • (We have enough electrical tape)
• String
• Misc outing gear
  • Some form of way of throwing things (to be ratified by risk assessment)
  • Folding chairs+table. Low Priority-issue for storage.
  • First aid kit
  • Torches

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.
• Allen keys
• Adjustable spanner or set of spanners

Station Equipment

• Soundweb 9088 (for radio audio routing)
• Audio patch panel
• improved rotator control