Nice kit. I'll have to look up the RS-918. I broke my dedicated QRP radio, a FT-817ND. Since then I've been using my FT-897D and FT-857D radios for portable and QRP. My focus for the past couple of years is 80m NVIS for regional ecom. My current setup packs on my KLR650. I did add the tool tube mentioned to provide more space in top box and I should be camping in a nearby 465 acre wildlife management area in 1 of 5 unimproved camp sites for dry run of my setup. Then I might travel a bit. The 80m-10m EFHW has become my goto antenna for portable ops. I also am using a Chameleon Emcomm III Portable. It does well 20m and up, but only so-so on 40m and 80m, but I am still experimenting with counterpoise wires and choking. I will probably cut a 31ft wire and use a water bottle to make a base loading coil and attach it to the 5:1 transformer as vertical ground plane antenna for DX. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nShDYlZGKlc.html
I got lucky with my purchase - it was used and half off retail. If you can afford something better, I would recommend it. There's nothing wrong with the RS-918 but there are definetly better options like the Xiegu 6100 for about $600. IMHO the Xiegu is far more feature rich that the Yaesu QRP radios. Check out: www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-017741
