Thank you Mark,
When I started SOTA activating, my rig, tuner, cables and accesories were carefully packed in a small compact handbag, which was very good for having all the necessary elements in a single bag and also to take little space up in the rucksack. But I soon realised that the time I was using to take all those elements out of the handbag, connecting all the wires and then doing the reverse at packing up, was a precious time which was not making me possible to activate on HF during my limited in time, rapid activations of Mt. San Cristóbal that I’ve been doing for quite some time every Saturday morning with just 15 or 20 minutes max to be on air.
See my post in this thread: To HF . . . or not to HF - #5 by EA2IF
And this thread where I explain how I did it (it has evolved to the better over time)
Mt. San Cristobal EA2/NV-119 by EA2IF/P on 23/05/2015
This proved hugely useful and saved me a lot of time when setting-up and packing up.
Being everything perfectly fitted inside the wooden box keeps the rig and connectors much better protected as I don’t need to connect and disconnect everything at each activation, thus reducing strain/stress to all wires and connectors.
I highly recommend something like this to any activator.
73,
Guru