My portable ham rig is in a plastic tote with mics, speakers, cables, etc... ready to go.
I opened it up to check everything and program the race frequencies and realized that the main power cable was AWOL - gone - missing - not in the house...
Spent 20 minutes looking for it and finally soldered a new one. Got the two radios programmed with the race frequencies (and have a cheat sheet printed out in case), and am good to go.
Feeling very embarrassed as if this had been an emergency bug-out scenario, I would have been dead in the water. I will be checking through each of my emergency kits on a monthly basis to eliminate situations like this...
Sitting down to a very late dinner.
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