> The best way I've found to carry an Alpha that has had its
> transformer removed is by using a couple of the hard-sided Samsonite
> suitcases. I think it's the 29-inch version that is the maximum
> size accepted by airlines as checked baggage. Put the chassis in
> one, and the transformer in the other. I've drilled holes in the
> suitcase used to transport the transformer, so that I can bolt the
> transformer into the case so it doesn't rattle around. Use your
> clothes as packing material in both suitcases...you'll still have
> room for the other bits and pieces of equipment you need for your
> contest station.
Yeah, what he said!
Rather than drilling holes in the suitcase, I made a plywood insert
the size of the internal height and width of the suitcase and mounted
the transformer onto it.
It's not the transformer "rattling around" that causes the problem so
much as it's the rattling transformer pulverizing the "other bits and
pieces of equipment you need for your contest station." :-)
--Trey, N5KO
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