What is in Your Radio Go-Kit?

[N7LRD]

A recent post by Michael, AC0PR, sparked the memory of a question I promised to address after a recent family gathering.  Michael noted that his “Go-Kit” and plans weren't exactly as well designed as he thought they were once he tried to implement them away from his home.Our family is well-populated with Hams.  All of the adults have either communications and / or emergency preparedness callings in addition to our other callings.  96-hour kits are in place for each family member and are well-refined due do to regular use both in family outings and planned testing events.  The same is not true of our Ham Go-Kits.  Each of us has a bag full of "stuff" that we smilingly call our "Kit".  We only take handi-talkies on our camping trips due to weight restrictions.  Little emergency use and experience without close-by resources has been accumulated.Unfortunately, our lives are extremely busy and structured so attending more than a few minutes at events like Field Days is rare.  To add to the problem, all of us live within less than a mile of a Home Depot, Walmart and even Bishops Storehouses, thus, it is easy to become apathetic in building a functioning standalone Go-Kit.  Does this sound familiar?Many of you live in areas that have experienced extended devastating events recently and over the years.  With that real-world emergency experience, what should be in a Ham Go-Kit including power supplies?  Should we have two kits? --- a heavy kit and a light kit that balance the probable in-place duration of a disaster against the lighter weight, smaller space requirements of a Bug-Out / short duration kit?  I'm looking forward to hearing from this group knowing that your experience(s) will result in some fairly definitive recommendations.

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