Airline weight restrictions are the deciding factor in any lightweight DXpedition. Reliability/redundancy is another very important issue - we have tried as much as possible to have 2 of everything, or at least to have a back-up standing-by to be shipped to Niue if an essential piece of equipment fails. We have shipped 9kg of equipment and wire antennas by air mail to await our arrival.

CW - Elecraft K3 - keyed via virtual COM port and by CMOS Super Keyer III with Bencher paddle.   

SSB - Elecraft K3 - Heil Proset with HC4 insert

RTTY - Yaesu FT-840 + GM3WOJ homebrew RTTY / Datamodes interface

Two 13.8V 22A Switched-mode Power supplies + extra cooling fans (one for the operator!)

Lenovo S10-3 netbook running WinTest 4.8.0 in DXpedition mode

 This is the Tokyo HyPower HL-1.1KFX amplifier that ZK2V will use - kindly loaned by Gavin GM0GAV.  

 4 x SD2933 High Power MOSFETs in Class AB Parallel push-pull.         V_DS = 48V

 600W output from a 9.5kg package, specially designed for lightweight DXpedition use.

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plus many kgs of other essential items like USB external keyboard, SWR bridge, TV high pass filter, etc.