FT-817 1170 g
KD1JV MTR 124 g
FT-817 microphone 170 g
Antron A99 2270 g.
In reply to G3CWI:
Why?
I did not think you used a A99…
Off to watch Harry Potter on TV.
Night night
Mike G6TUH
In reply to G3CWI:
I see where you’re coming from!
If you need to shed 124 gms let me know 
73
In reply to G4ISJ:
If you need to shed 124 gms let me know
Touché!
In reply to G3CWI:
FWIW, my philosophy is that if you need to weigh your gear to the nearest gram, you need to spend time getting your fitness level up or your body weight down before activating!
Brian G8ADD
In reply to G3CWI:
Antron A99 2270 g.
…imagine that, eh!!!
Works out about one milligram per contact for me…
HTH
In reply to 2E0YYY:
Wow. 2,270,000 contacts. That’s very impressive Mikey.
73 Richard G3CWI
In reply to G8ADD:
… you need to spend time getting your fitness level up or your body weight down before activating!
Easier said than done Brian and weight is not what it is all about - muscle weighs more than fat.
Weighing kit is a useful exercise as you then know what you are carrying. I find it surprising how odds and ends can get added to the backpack on account of the “I might need that” principle. The problem is that 99 times out of 100, I do not need these additions, so evaluating the usefulness of an item against the weight carried is a task that I occasionally carry out.
By the way, according to the manufacturers of my new garden furniture, most of us need help to get up the hills. Antron bearers certainly do! 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18897403@N00/14063414329/
73, Gerald G4OIG
In reply to G4OIG:
Easier said than done Brian
Tell me about it!!!
weight is not what it is all about - muscle weighs more than fat.
Well, yes, it is what it is all about. Get rid of a stone and you won’t notice a 14 pound backpack! As I understand it, if you convert fat to muscle the muscle might have a higher density than fat but the resulting muscle will actually have about a third of the weight of the original fat. The rest vanishes as excreted water.
In my backpack there are more non-radio than radio items carried that I likely won’t need: shell clothing, an additional warm layer, emergency gear and rations, things like that added to food, drink, a camera, probably weighing more in aggregate than the radio gear. As I pack the rucksack before each outing I rarely carry any unnecessary radio gear - except for a few tent pegs and guys in case I can’t find something to bungee the pole to, which has only happened once!
Brian G8ADD