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Emergency Radio GO Box
I was dragging my radios to emergency drills in and around York county for some time. I was always nervous about lugging expensive radios around with the danger of dropping them or having stuff dropped on them in my car or trunk. I started digging around on the web and found a cool idea! It appears that other hams have had the same issues and already found a solution. They have mounted all of their gear in a toolbox of some sort. Here are a few links to their designs:
Emergency Radio Box
Radio Go Box
Emergency Radio Tactical Box
Here's my design: (Still a work in progress)
(have to get visio to make a block diagram) The box contains:
1) Icom IC-207 dual band rig
2) cross needle SWR meter (helps to show what the unknown antenna/coax at the high school is doing when you transmit into it)
3) MFJ 20 amp power supply to run the dual band rig off of shore power
4) Anderson power pole power distribution thing. (power strip for Andersons)
5) Radio Shack scanner
6) Cig lighter - 3 position (for charging your cell or whatever)
7) voltage monitor to check battery voltage if there is no shore power
8) headphones, pencils, notepads, listing of all local repeaters, manual for IC-207, glowsticks, flashlights, AA batteries, coax, adapters, tape, etc
All this stuff put the plastic $9 dollar tool box to it's mechanical limits, so I reinforced the handle and lid with light-weight aluminum stock from the hardware store.
It allows me to grab one big yellow box and a 12 volt battery and I'm out the door with a complete portable 2 meter/440 Mhz station!
What's in the box you ask? Here's a block diagram of the box setup: (block diagram still in progress)
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