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Since I began racing I've been toting our in car radios in car camera stuff and telemetry displays to events in a combo pelican hardcase/backpack. It's now a catch all for all the electrical stuff I bring to races, and has become unwieldy due to how much stuff is crammed in there. It gets repacked each night after the days racing so all the items can be charged for the next day.

I'm trying to figure out a better system, and what better way then to pole my favorite group of organizational wackadoos.

What are some things you've tried and didn't like, what flat out didn't work? I've been eyeballing some of the HF Apache cases. I am open to separating the radios from the telemetry/video equipment if that simplifies things. I'd prefer a waterproof option since we often setup/test/race in the rain.

Things that need to go in there.

4 handheld radios.
Radio chargers
Spare batteries
2 live stream cameras
2 Mobile hotspots
Pit headset
Spare helmet radio kits
Spare in car radio harness
Power strip
USB splitter
Assorted charging cords
2 Fire tablets


Thanks y'all. Let's see those pack outs.


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Also the title was supposed to be transport, but it somehow corrected it to transmission, and I haven't the foggiest idea why hahaha

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Oops, that dumba$$ filter again. Try putting a hyphen between tran-whatever. Otherwise it thinks even a tran-ssexual is a tran-smission.
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VStar650CL wrote:
Thu Apr 17, 2025 5:48 pm
Oops, that dumba$$ filter again. Try putting a hyphen between tran-whatever. Otherwise it thinks even a tran-ssexual is a tran-smission.
:lolling:
Yah, it got me, and I missed the window to fix it. It like Learned'd shall live on forever.

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Decision made. Pulled the trigger on 2 Apache hard cases from Hazard Fraught.

Step one of the pack out is in the build.thread.

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I guess post an update here with how you end up liking it long-term?

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Nice solution. I like the waterproof pelican boxes from HF. Reminds me, I need to make a couple up to throw in our classics for shows and road trips!

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AZhitman wrote:
Sat May 03, 2025 12:21 pm
Nice solution. I like the waterproof pelican boxes from HF. Reminds me, I need to make a couple up to throw in our classics for shows and road trips!
Yah, I am pretty happy with them so far. Only thing I don't like is the second set of latches on the sides. Opening and closing is tricky because a guys only got so.many arms you know. I may delete them since we don't plan on sending these things down any river rapids.

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