Thanks for all the wonderful advise. This reflector is a great resource.
Looks like I’ll continue to use pencil and paper until I find a reasonably priced tablet/laptop. If you hear me on please be kind, I’m an old man with sticky fingers. Especially when cold. Oh BTW, I did pick up some hand warmers.
See you on the next one!
73, fred
Fred,
for my outdoor radio activations ( SOTA and Flora/Fauna) I use the KX3 and mostly the GPD pocket mini-laptop. It’s a 7 inch, with touchscreen Windows 10 laptop. I installed N1MM and have a CAT/KEY cable to control my KX3. So that way I log all my QSO’s. At home I export the ADIF file to RUMlog on my Mac. It saves me a lot of time to enter all the QSO’s.
The battery use is about 5 or 6 hours. Even in the sunlight when the screen is vy bright. The weight is about 500 grams. There is even a vy small mouse. I see that the price this days is almost €200 more than 2 years ago, when I bought it.
Here you can see the spec’s https://www.amazon.nl/GPD-Ultrabook-m3-8100Y-Dual-Band-PCKT-2-M3-AB/dp/B09449QWC5/ref=sr_1_5?__mk_nl_NL=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=2MJMDQDHKDBHV&keywords=gpd+2&qid=1648586748&sprefix=gpd+2%2Caps%2C111&sr=8-5
On my youtube channel (PA9CW) you can find many recordings of this setup.
Just throw this in there for the laughs.
Actually I will bite. Toughbooks are way too heavy to be considered practical as SOTA laptops but for general use if you get a CF-31 (older models have ccfl backlights which die) you will not find a more capable outdoor laptop, the filtering on the screen is amazing and the backlight burns your retinas indoors. The screen resolution is limited but win10 or Linux does a good job of making it very useable.
Mark
Exactly what I’m looking for. Very nice setup!
73, fred
TU Mark
Lenovo Thinkpad X240 (or similar 12" models) is quite compact and can run up to 7 hours on a 6-cell battery. I bought mine couple of years ago just for 200 euros (refurbished).
I am in the Surface Go2 train. I use the Kensington hard case and the keyboard as the screen protector. OH8STN has some great videos and articles on the topic.
Kent K9EZ
Hi Kent,
Yes, I have seen this video. Julian has some incredible content. He is very dedicated to emergency communications.
Thanks for sharing the video.
73, fred
I used a MS Surface tablet for the Flex radio 1500, but now with the VK-port-a-log App I don’t carry anymore tablets or laptops for Sota.
Hi Jon,
Thanks for the feedback.
73 fred