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Microphone Hanger for Backpacks
13 December 2022 | by My standard SOTA setup is a Yaesu FT-90 compact VHF/UHF transceiver stuffed into a fanny pack with its Bioenno battery pack. The fanny pack is a pretty nice flyfishing pack that I position on the front side of me so I can easily see and operate the radio. I am usually holding the 2m or 70 cm Yagi antenna and talking on the microphone.
I’ve been looking for a way to clip the microphone onto the pack. Typically, what happens now is I drop the microphone and it gets banged up when it hits the rocky ground. I needed a way to easily hang it on the side of the pack. I recalled having an old cellphone belt clip that accepts the standard button on the back of a mobile microphone, but I couldn’t locate it. However, I did find one on Amazon.
I clipped it onto my fanny pack and the Yaesu microphone hangs quite nicely on it. This clip can be used for other applications…anywhere you want to hang a microphone onto a backpack, belt, or whatever. Depending on your station configuration, this may be useful for all kinds of portable operating: SOTA, POTA, and satellites.
73 Bob K0NR
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I have used a ‘Gearkeeper’ which attaches to your bag or jacket and which has a spring loaded lanyard. Keeps the mike close and if you drop it, it gets pulled back to the keeper.
The only problem I see here is that the title talks about a BACK PACK and the story talks about a fanny pack. If it was a back pack there would be no need to put the mic on the belt part.