The 1 Kilo HF challenge. A multiband activation pack below 1 kilogram

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Hello Peter,

this thread refers to an invitation of setting reduced gear with minimal equipment (only radio related, excluded cloths, shelter, water, etc).

Many people contributed with great ideas about how to prepare such a minimalist setup.

Due to the interest we prepared an Event held on 17-19 June 2016.
You can see details of it in this other thread:

Worldwide HF MINIMALIST / QRP SOTA event

Many of the HF activators in SOTA use minimalist equipment (reduced weight and few accessories) during their mountain expeditions. We propose a special event to encourage and test the use of a reduced and simple gear to activate a SOTA summit. Target A) for Activators: to use a minimalist HF band setup from a SOTA summit. All the radio equipment used in the activation including battery, transceiver, paddles, coaxial, tuner, antenna and support pole should not exceed the maximum weight of the …

There is no other challenge planned yet for the future, but if there is interest we can do it again…
What do you think gents?
VY 73 de Ignacio