[CQ-Contest] Travelling for Contests or Dxpeditions

[Charles Harpole]

Pardon me, but one can make anything containing anything and make it just
light up... even compute or deliver song or be a pacemaker in your chest.
Just making an item light up is so silly as an inspection as to be foolish
in any bad guy's heart.  73, Charly​

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:49 AM, David Kozinn, K2DBK <dkozinn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'll reply to a couple of comments here. First, I have to assume that
> simply turning the thing on should suffice. The guys isn't going to expect
> you to work DX from the airport terminal. ("Hey, I don't know if that's
> legit; 20 meters is open now and you can even work into Europe from Newark
> Airport? Please come with me sir".)  And I'll bet that most agents will
> have no clue about ham radio, although once I did have a guy who claimed to
> be a ham, though he couldn't (wouldn't?) tell me his callsign. He asked
> some questions that were a little "off" for anyone who has ever done much
> on the air, but again, that's not their job.
>
> As far as carrying around batteries, packs or otherwise, if it comes to
> that, I guess I can deal with it, but having to carry around a bunch of
> batteries just in case the guy decides to make me switch it on is annoying.
> It's not like a phone that's got a built-in battery. On top of that, I'd
> assume if you go the "unopened batteries" route you'd need to immediately
> pick up more as soon as you landed, just to be on the safe side.
>
> Finally ,as far as carrying a copy of QST with my radio in an ad, I'm still
> using my trusty Icom MkIIG as my travel radio and that hasn't been in a
> magazine for years. :-)
>
> Anyone on the list know someone in the TSA that could answer a question
> about how likely this is to be an issue?
>
>
> 73,
>      David, K2DBK
>      k2dbk.com
>      k2dbk.blogspot.com
>      twitter: @k2dbk
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Mon,9/22/2014 10:11 AM, David Kozinn, K2DBK wrote:
> >
> >> The powering up things is of concern to me even for domestic travel.
> >>
> >
> > Depending on the radio, the receivers in most 12V rigs will at least turn
> > on and run from a fresh stack of 9 AA cells. A K3 draws only 1A in RX
> mode,
> > +100mA with the 2nd RX. A KX3 draws a quarter of that. Another option is
> a
> > low capacity LiIon battery pack. This 6Ah pack sells for about $65
> prewired
> > with Power Poles and weighs less than 2#. Note that it's current-limited
> at
> > 2A by the protection circuitry.
> >
> > http://www.batteryspace.com/custom-lfp-18650-battery-12-
> > 8v-6000-mah-77wh-2a-rate-w-pcb-7-2.aspx
> >
> > Or this one -- 5Ah, but output current limited to 10A, for $80, a few
> > ounces lighter.
> >
> > http://www.batteryspace.com/lifepo4-battery-12v-5ah-60wh-
> > 10a-rate-with-led-indicator---replace-sla-12v-4-5ah-lighter-
> > weight-and-higher-capacity----un38-3-passed.aspx
> >
> > Both of these batteries have passed the safety testing that makes it
> legal
> > for them to be on an aircraft. There are many cheaper alternatives from
> the
> > same vendor that have not passed that testing.
> >
> > 73, Jim K9YC
> >
> >
> >
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-- 
Charly, HS0ZCW