In this video I explain the details of the amateur radio go kit that I built for portable use during field day, special events, and emergency deployments. The case is a Gator GRB-4U case. Everything else is custom made by myself.
That is an incredibly tidy and well-built go-kit, David! Thanks for the video. It gave me lots of great ideas for improving my own kit (which is built into a 2U Gator case, incidentally).
Very nice well thought out go kit that you made. Shows your experience in the hobby and with field day deployments. Thank for showing us what and how you made it and what you would change if you did it again.
That is absolutely beautiful .. my first thought was how nice that would look placed near the interior navigation station area on a larger sailboat. Cheers .....
Freekin' awesome setup! Well done. I built two bugout boxes around 6U Gator cases. One for satellite ops (my "space station") and one for terrestrial. The heart of the satellite kit is an IC-9700, and for the terrestrial setup is an IC-7300. With the bigger radios my boxes weigh a ton! Thanks for the vid.
Fine job on the go box. I built one for field day several years ago and keep updating radios and ideas with it. I use magnets on the side to hold microphones while not in use. I like the antenna setup also. Solar power to maintain battery life is a must! Very nice de N4UVR
Okay...now my goal is to build the 'AA1DF' go kit with my selection of radios. A humble, "I'm not worthy," to you Sir. That is an excellent kit! 73 NY2CW
Very nice Go-Kit sir - Well thought out, with concerns like equipment temperature, maintainability/access, adaptability considered and addressed. '73, Walt - AB1PW
Red actually isn’t better. At all. Overall brightness is what harms your night vision. Our rods are bad at perceiving red light, so we have to use a much brighter amount to be able to use the cones. Blue to green is the best part of the spectrum for using only rods, and using a minimal amount of light to do so thus preserving more natural night vision. Red has benefits from being so poorly seen, in that it is less detectable to others. But unless you’re in the middle of the field trying to evade detection, it is NOT the color of choice. Modern submarine instrumentation reflects this, they no longer project red light but blueish green.
@@somorider587 Its actually a superior choice of preserving natural night vision is your aim. The benefit of red is purely that it’s harder for others to see.
red, blue and green could be used to preserve night vision. blue is also used to see blood trails when hunting. green is used by pilots to look at aerial maps. either way, those 3 colors mentioned is used to preserve night vision.
This is the fist Go Kit that I would consider building. Most everything I've seen has been way too heavy. I would switch out the battery for a Bioenno though. Great job! - Mike - KI8R
Very cool setup, well designed. In case you haven't noticed, there's a thin red wire, probably for a switch that's under a lot of tension when you open the front. Otherwise, nice cabling inside.
You have made a really nice functional go kit that looks good. If you ever decide you want more battery capacity and less weight I recommend the Bioenno. The weight reduction alone is amazing. Thanks for sharing this. It's worth a write up for QST if you add wiring diagrams.
VERY nice go box. My two concerns would be that a charge controller from a big box store notoriously has quite a bit of RFI, then a 100 watt HF radio in an enclosed bag would bake itself.
Very nice build! I'm trying to design a kit in a 4u gator case as well, and like many aspects of your design. May I ask how you have the radios secured inside the case?
@David I really like what you have built here. Great Job. Just curious if you have a Build list? there are quite a few things I would be interested in looking at for building one myself. Not looking to built the exact same box you have, but something similar.
That's an awesome case. But i see one flaw. Even when you open the back door, many of the heat will gather in the top front. I advise you to create some holes in the very top front of the box where heat can leave the box. But for the rest this is a very well designed go box, Enjoy.
David, of all the GoBox projects I've looked at, I like yours the most! The layout is very well organized, space out and you have utilized the space beautifully! Job well done! You have inspired me to build my own Go Box with a very similar design to yours. What I am missing is a detailed parts list of everything you used to build yours. Do you by chance have a list of materials you used to build it? Thanks David! John
