Custom Batteries, SOTA Campouts, and Mark's Car-tastrophe

Umesh KK6TXI visits the Sofa to share his expertise in custom batteries for portable ham radio, including QRO SOTA and a mountaintop Field Day! We catch up (finally) with stories from the W7O and W6 SOTA campouts, and Mark waxes poetic about an activation that went oh-so-wrong.

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SHOW NOTES

• Drink tastings: G4 Tequila Blanco High Proof 108, G4 Tequila Reposado
• The NR7Y Hardware Mod: https://youtu.be/zi35aTjEppQ
• N6ARA Electronics - the TinyPaddle, and more! https://n6ara.com/
• KK6TXI's Battery Field Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBzJ3BqniDE

Chapters

0:00 Hi Umesh!

3:36 Tequila Tasting

9:02 Batteries!

01:11:28 Mark's W7O Campout

01:24:38 Ara's W6 Campout

01:30:11 SOTA Car-tastrophe

01:52:54 Thanks to our Patreon supporters!

THANKS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Umesh KK6TXI - studio space and intro/outro music

Di KO6BTM - audio engineering

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