ARC Shopping List

ARC shopping list for all currently active projects. Add and remove items as they're purchased or no longer needed.

Pre-Approved

• 1/15/26
  • $30 bulletin board (don't we have one?)
  • $50 WFD
    • Soda and Lazy Moon Pizza
  • $15 organizational folders etc for promotional materials and other documents

Electronics parts

(Digikey or Mouser)

• SMA crimp on ends for meshtastic J-poles (pick to fit crimper and coax?)
• 50ohm axial resistor (for nanovna calibration in test jig)
• RG8x or RG85 to BNC crimp on ends for 2m/70cm yagis and j-poles

Meshtastic

• $13 https://www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-nRF52840-Wio-SX1262-Kit-for-Meshtastic-p-6400.html low power nodes
• $90 integrated Seeed solar meshtastic node

Other

Radios

G90?

New tools

Ryobi battery powered drill

tool kit / socket set (have one, missing pieces?)

Tabling Supplies;

More business cards

EOC shack

Power supplies

Powerwerx SS-30DV 14.1v, 30A, powerpole, banana plugs (smaller, more expensive)

(Amazon) Tekpower Analog Display TP30SWI 30 Amp DC 13.8V Switching Power Supply

Power Adapter

(Amazon) power pole to 50W radio (redundant? bare without power poles comes with radio)

Antenna

(Amazon) Diamond X50NA Dualband (N)

Radio

(HRO) ICOM IC-2730B

Rotor Controller

• 4x 4n4401 Transistors
• 4x resistors for azimuth and elevation voltage dividing (type tbd)
  • need max watts, ohms

Kenwood Digital Interfacing

• DB-9 Null-Modem cable in shack
• 13 pin DIN male end (for Kenwood side) (Steve will bring to next meeting)
• 2x TRS (3.5mm) female ends (for mic+ptt and spkr)

ICOM 756 Digital Interfacing

• 2x TRRS (3.5mm) jumpers (male to male) 6ft (in Steve's field day kit, probably in wire bucket too)

WX

* Receive antenna

• • RCA-Coax adapter
• Strobe light
  • Steve's strobe light
  • 120V Adafruit DC controllable relay
• alternate; neopixels (large, string, or ring?)

Tape Measure Yagis

(we have some of this in the project box, need to verify quanity)

• 4x Cheap Harbor Freight tape measures (1 inch width)
• 40ft PVC pipe (1 inch)
• 20x PVC Cross (1 inch)
• 10x PVC Tee (1 inch)
• 20x Stainless Hose Clamps
• 10x BNC/RG-58 Crimp Ons
• 40x small machine screw
• ~60 inch 14awg speaker wire

Makes 10x Yagis

General Lightning Protection

• Alpha Delta N-type Polyphasers [1]

Shack Jumpers

(size length to fit radio positions on table)

• LMR400/RG-213 PL-259 ends (have ~5 ends)
• LRM400/RG-213 N ends (maybe have 1)