This backpack here contains the most versatile radio. No, it doesn't. BEEP! This backpack here contains the most versatile antenna system that I own to date. This time on K6UDA Radio. BEEP! Holy s**t that man! That was a bold, bold statement. But you know what guys? I stand by that statement. This is truly the most versatile antenna system that I have owned to date. And we will talk about that after we talk about the new Camillean M-PASS 2.0 antenna system with all the trimmings. But first, if this is your first time on the channel or you're just lazy and you haven't done it before, please hit the subscribe button, hit the little bell notification right next to it. Let's see what else. Thumbs up on this video if you like this and you want to see more kinds of stuff like it. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Thank you guys. We just hit 25,000 subscribers here on the channel. That is a major freaking milestone. And to say thank you, I have a couple of things in my grab bag. I'm going to send them out to a couple of guys. Just random. Leave a comment below. Let me know you want in on the giveaway. I'll see what I could do. I've got these two little packages from MFJ. And I might have a couple of t-shirts or something. So do that. Thanks again. 25,000 subscribers. Let's go take a look at the M-PASS in the wild. Let's say you're at the top of a mountain or the top of something. There are no trees to hang in and out anywhere near you. Well, this is a vertical. It's a 20 foot vertical. You can in 10 foot sections basically. You can make it a 10 foot vertical. You can make it a 20 foot vertical. Look at that. Fresh beer poop. How cool is that? I'm going to set this thing up two different ways. I'm going to set it up as a vertical. Like here. I'm also going to set it up as an end fan. This is it right here. This is a very cool configuration for a mountain top or something like that. But you're definitely going to need a tuner. So configuration number two here. So I can actually sport this and pack portable just like this. I don't think I'd ever do this. But I suppose this is a thing. You do have trees. It's an N-fed. It's an inverted V and an inverted L-sloper. It's whatever you want to make it depending upon the circumstances that you've got. So not very high. So yeah, this is the heart of it. This is what makes it so versatile. Number one, this thing is rock solid. The second thing, it's a hanger. I put a wire antenna on here, hang it up from a tree, a pole, wherever I want to do. And this thing is working. Take that little guy off there. This now becomes the base of my vertical. I could take the spike, the included spike there. Screw that on, stick that in the ground or stab a vampire. Stick this up in the air and I am ready to go. If for some reason I wanted to mount this on the back of my, say my Jeep, take a jaw mount, screw that on, and now I have a mobile antenna. Easily screw that thing back on and now I am back to a wire antenna. As far as tunability and everything, I think it could be a little bit better. This thing without a tuner was running at about, and I got to remember, but it was at about two and a half to one, three to one, which is not so great, especially when you are running QRP power. You are giving up a ton of signal for the sake of your portability and the antenna use. What I do give up, I get in all this configurability. This is not a cheap antenna system. This costs quite a bit of money as far as a portable antenna system. Comes with 25 feet of counterpoise wire, 50 feet of wire antenna, 50 feet of coax, with a choke on it, this ground spike. Very nicely machined, it got a little bit of heft to it, so that is going to add some weight to the backpack. But this thing will drive into the ground very nicely. I imagine also really good for taking out vampires. The 10 foot chaw mill antenna, this chaw mill extension, all for the low, low price, 550 bucks. But that is not all. You get a backpack too, and it all fits in the backpack. This is an MFJ spider, and this uses hamsticks very, very nice. But as you could see, I am going to need a tripod or some kind of a big pole. So this isn't something I am taking with me in the backpack. This is a chameleon M-com mini antenna. Again, a very nice antenna, and I am going to be doing a review on this one. This is actually the antenna that I use on my motorhome. But again, it is a wire antenna. It requires some kind of an infrastructure behind it, whether it is trees or a big pole, my motorhome, something else to hang it off of. This is kind of my foolproof box. This is my home made 64 to 1 transformer. Very, very good. It tunes very, very nicely. But again, it is another wire antenna. I have got to have trees. I have got to have something to be able to hang this off of, and to be able to... You know what I mean? The box is fairly big. It is lightweight. It cost me very, very little to make. I gladly lug it up the side of a mountain. If I knew I had something to hang it off of. Well, this, the MFJ Big Year, is one of my favorite most configurable and tunable antennas. I am going in with the tripod and everything in this bag, and a little over 10 pounds. I am not lugging this anywhere that I can't drive it to. This hex beam behind me here, or above me, is my favorite antenna. Works the best. It is definitely not versatile. It is going to live there for the rest of its life. Alright guys, that's all I've got this time. Remember to like, subscribe, share this video. Hit that little bell notification again. Visit my Patreon. Visit the PayPal. And throw me a buck, I don't know. Let's see. Leave a comment below. Let me know what you think, what kind of antennas you're using for your portable operations. And we'll catch you next time. I'm Bob, K6UDA, and I'm out of here. 7-3.