Amateur Radio Go Boxes (Shack in a box)

In this video, you will see a presentation by James Lea, WX4TV, about "Go Boxes" or in another name "Shack in a box".
It can be very useful in lots of situations (Emergency, Field Days, etc), and besides that, it is interesting from the technical side so you can get interesting ideas if you plan to do something similar.
That presentation recorded during a monthly club meeting for the W6JW Santa Clarita Amateur Radio Club.
More details about Shack-in-a-box: shack-in-a-box.com/
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Enjoy.
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The Process by LAKEY INSPIRED: / the-process
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[@rangersmith4652]

I've recently discovered the Lea channel, as I'm looking at go box designs. The young ladies are exceptionally bright and articulate. Great stuff!

[@reHamRadio]

Yep, agree! Thanks for your feedback, 73!

[@chrissewell1608]

I learned a lot, from all your trails and errors. Thanks for the great presentation. And good luck to the girls on their enterprising business. And I love the idea of the "Santa in the box", during the holidays! Great idea to get kids into Ham Radio.

[@reHamRadio]

Thanks for your feedback :) Good luck, 73, Tamir, N6JJ

[@smallmountiancrawler9709]

Wow. Just wow. This is an extremely impressive and extremely informative video. Yes, it’s long, but it is a full club presentation that has been posted to KZbin. How lucky are we to gain the knowledge, the trial and error, and to witness a great dad (mom too:) in action! Very impressive. Kudos to your girls for their entrepreneurial spirit. Good things ahead from this group. 😉👍

[@reHamRadio]

Thanks for your feedback, I'm happy it was informative. 73!

[@kd5you1]

This is very informative video. I have been really happy with my Bioenno battery & solar panel. I built my first go kit maybe 2005, and it was simply a HTX-202 with 8 D cells, a 2 meter dipole antenna, and PVC pipes/couplers to raise the antenna 5 feet above the ground. Everything was contained inside an orange box I found in the fishing dept at Academy. My current go kit is in a 6U Gator shallow case, and it seems to be a never ending project. 73 KD5YOU

[@reHamRadio]

Haha :) This is true with anything in Ham Radio... Go boxes, MagLoops, Awards... Never ending ;) Thanks for your feedback and comment. 73!

[@winstonsmiths2449]

This videos deserves waaaay more views. Bookmarked this to watch a couple more times. Just discovered Bioenno. I am looking for a charge controller for my first go box build. Black is cool looking, but bright is cooler, literally! I will check out the build your own link!

[@reHamRadio]

Thank you for your feedback Winston! I appreciate that. Good luck, 73!

[@davidmarley80]

a trick: watch series at Flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching lots of of movies lately.

[@dsarge1977]

This is a great video !!!

[@reHamRadio]

Thank you!!

[@donalderickson5560]

I will be taking my ham radio test through hand ham looking forward to working the twin citys I was a storm chaser

[@reHamRadio]

Good luck in the test and you are welcome to the club :) Thanks for your feedback, 73.

[@Stealthmodeactivated-h8w]

Love the way you guys in the US can just buy all this gear off the shelf. 90% of this kit isn’t available in the UK

[@reHamRadio]

Thanks for your feedback, and i'm really curious what is missing in the UK market, and why?

[@Stealthmodeactivated-h8w]

@@reHamRadio other than the radios, there are zero power solutions for the outdoors,from generating through storage and connections. As for antenna solutions outside of expensive big brand antennas, you’re limited to making your own from bits of wire,there is only one commercial waterproof radio which only has 10W and is not available in the uk. It’s like the uk for radio is 50 years behind the rest of the world.

[@chrissewell1608]

I find that hard to believe. I follow several ham radio channels, in the the U.K. and those guys never complain about getting supplies, or having to make stuff from scratch. Especially since ham radio has apparently been in popular use, since WW1 & 2, as an emergency means of communications! And you can order damn near anything from Amazon UK, right?

[@kd5you1]

Maybe try Waters & Stanton Ltd. They are a radio communications equipment distributor and they have a KZbin channel as well.

[@brentjohnson6654]

New subscriber here. I have just switched to Messi & Paoloni coax for my mobile install. Probably move to that at my QTH. I really like the flexibility and the performance is better than LMR cable. I also just got that solar charge controller he mentioned. I also have a 15AH Bioenno battery for portable. Go Boxes - is there a list of equipment from his presentation? He mentioned Gator Boxes, but I didn’t catch the model numbers he was using. Thanks for the video!

[@reHamRadio]

Thanks, Brent for sharing your experience. As for the list of parts, I suggest just visiting their website for updates information. Just Google "shack in a box" and you will find it. Good luck, 73.

[@brianshanahan3878]

Why the external "LDG" tuner in the slimmed down go box with the 7300 which has an internal tuner? I am building my box now and would LOVE to know why.

[@reHamRadio]

Hi Brian, the main reason is that the internal tuner can handle up to SWR like 1:3, and the external tuner can handle more than that. Thanks.

[@stahpit1971]

The dude in the top left looks oddly familiar

[@reHamRadio]

Could be ;)

[@bassmanjr100]

I like Icom and Yaesu but be honest folks. All of the components in all of the radios are built in China. Kenwood seems needlessly expensive. I guess most amatuer radio hobbyists also deal crack to pay for all of this crazy expensive equiptmemt. Personally I dont get it but I'm sure they are good radios and go boxes.

[@drillkjh]

Shack-in-a-Box is extremely over priced.

[@reHamRadio]

Well, it's an open and free market :) Everyone can buy or build whatever he wants.

[@chrissewell1608]

I would imagine, you get what you pay for!

[@twohandsandaradio]

That's the beauty of the hobby. The more you educate yourself and the more you learn the less expensive you can make it.... or spend as much as you want. But until you research, educate and learn you're caught listening to KZbin used car salesman and you're spending $500 for a telescopic whip and a coil as your antenna. Once you figure the game out you'll be better off.