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Speaker 1: is the brand new Explorer backpack from Gigabarts. This is
Speaker 1: Generation two, version two, and these are currently being shipped
Speaker 1: on a slow boat from China, so they're unfortunately not
Speaker 1: going to make it here until after Orlando Haamcation. However,
Speaker 1: they did order I think it was twenty five or
Speaker 1: fifty something like that, a small number on a faster
Speaker 1: shipping method so that they would arrive by Orlando Haamcation.
Speaker 1: So some of these bags will be available for Landohamcation,
Speaker 1: which is just coming up in a few days from
Speaker 1: the time this video will post. Now here's something unique
Speaker 1: about this. There's actually gonna be two or three versions
Speaker 1: of this bag. You might notice that this bag is
Speaker 1: black and it has red stitching. Those are the hamm
Speaker 1: Radio two point oh version of this bag. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have one hundred of these bags in a waterproof type
Speaker 1: material that is made to be much more waterproof than
Speaker 1: this five hundred denier that this bag is. And then
Speaker 1: they're gonna have some regular bags like this. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have some bags with black stitching that are not the
Speaker 1: ham Radio two point oh version. So there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a couple of different versions of this bag and those
Speaker 1: are gonna be available on my website link that I
Speaker 1: will leave in the description blow and a few of
Speaker 1: them will be at Orlando Hamcations. So we're gonna do
Speaker 1: another video once we get there, but I wanted to
Speaker 1: go through this and show you everything that it has.
Speaker 1: This is a very neat backpack. It is the regular
Speaker 1: Explore but expanded. So let's go brought it into the
Speaker 1: Hamshack to get a little bit different angle on it.
Speaker 1: Here close up, of course, it's got this zipper in
Speaker 1: the front here that goes down to the bottom Molly
Speaker 1: on the front panel here again red stitching signifies the
Speaker 1: brand of bag. There are the version of this bag
Speaker 1: that is the Ham Radio two point zero official version.
Speaker 1: It's got Molly on the side panel here. Water bottle
Speaker 1: holder is this would be the right side of the
Speaker 1: bag if you're wearing it. Expandable water bottle holder right
Speaker 1: there on the other side it has same thing basically
Speaker 1: molly water bottle holder on the top. Try to get
Speaker 1: that as best as I can. It's got a pocket
Speaker 1: on the top here, and I put this in here,
Speaker 1: so it's got velcro on the inside of it. So
Speaker 1: you can get these velcrow different types of pouches and
Speaker 1: holders and whatnot. Alf of Amazon. This is just off
Speaker 1: of Amazon. Of course, all the Explorer bags that they
Speaker 1: make for the original Explorer backpack will fit in here
Speaker 1: just fine. But those are all like a khaki color,
Speaker 1: and I wanted something that was a little bit black
Speaker 1: and went with that one to be on the top there. Now,
Speaker 1: let me open this up. So on the flap that
Speaker 1: opens up right there. This is the outside flap. It's
Speaker 1: got three pockets. This mesh pocket here, it's got a
Speaker 1: solid pocket there and a kind of shallow right there,
Speaker 1: and then it's got a deeper pocket right here. No
Speaker 1: velcro here, obviously, but there's velcrow all inside the bag.
Speaker 1: Move it over like that velcrow here you can put
Speaker 1: your laptop case, your IC seventy three hundred mount, the
Speaker 1: FTDX or FT seven ft nine ninety one ft eight
Speaker 1: ninety one. All the different Explore bag mounts that are
Speaker 1: that Gigabarts has options for will go on here because
Speaker 1: it's just the regular velcro again. I got these small
Speaker 1: pouches off of Amazon just to show that they're actually
Speaker 1: much more universal than that. So you can use this
Speaker 1: as a pin holder right here, hold some pins, maybe
Speaker 1: a pocket knife right there, just all kinds of versatile stuff.
Speaker 1: The side here has the mesh pockets. This mesh pocket
Speaker 1: right opens up all the way similar to the last
Speaker 1: Explorer backpack. And then this one on the other side.
Speaker 1: Try not to knock everything off. My desk has dual pockets,
Speaker 1: one here on the bottom and one here on the top,
Speaker 1: so as you're wearing the backpack, this would be the
Speaker 1: right side. This is the right side here with the
Speaker 1: full pocket, and then the left side has these half
Speaker 1: pockets on it, so some cool options there. And this
Speaker 1: is just taller this way from this is a deeper
Speaker 1: inside pocket than what was on the original Explorer backpack,
Speaker 1: so the bag is bigger overall, and unlike the original one,
Speaker 1: it will set up by itself on the top. Here
Speaker 1: show you that real quick now, while you can save
Speaker 1: five percent on everything in the Explorer line from Gigabarts.
Speaker 1: Today's video is actually sponsored by Mezzi and Plony Coacs,
Speaker 1: which if you're gonna get one of these Explorer backpacks,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna want to keep some coacts in it
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Speaker 1: This is the Poda fifty in their customized bag that
Speaker 1: they have for it. Use this at field Day just
Speaker 1: about a week ago, and I will have this with
Speaker 1: me when I go to Orlando. Also for the PoTA event,
Speaker 1: the PoTA meetup that they're doing. You can save a
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Speaker 1: cables on everything Mezzi and Ploni at the link in
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Speaker 1: who should be at Orlando. I'm pretty sure they're going
Speaker 1: to be at Orlando, So go see them at Orlando
Speaker 1: if you happen to stop by. If you happen to
Speaker 1: see this video, first, thank them for supporting him. Radio
Speaker 1: two point zero. That's the bag sitting up by itself
Speaker 1: with nothing in it. And again this direction here. It's
Speaker 1: how it's much deeper this way. The old exploor bag
Speaker 1: was probably like, I don't know, maybe two thirds of
Speaker 1: this size something like that. And you can get a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff in that old explorer bag. But this
Speaker 1: one here is even bigger. Now. One difference. I said
Speaker 1: at the beginning, this was a prototype bag. So the
Speaker 1: load leveling straps that are on this bag will be
Speaker 1: included in the production run, but this waste strap will not.
Speaker 1: This will not be included in the production one. They
Speaker 1: figured out that it was just gonna be too hard
Speaker 1: to do this. These these waist straps in the various
Speaker 1: sizes because they would have to order multiple sizes to
Speaker 1: fit multiple people. While the backpack with just the straps
Speaker 1: and the uh, the load leveling or load balancing or
Speaker 1: whatever these are called, I can never remember what those
Speaker 1: are called. These pull it pulls the bag up higher
Speaker 1: on your shoulder, so it's not writing on your back
Speaker 1: as much. But in order to have that, those will
Speaker 1: be on there, but the but the waist strap will not.
Speaker 1: So just a little blurb on that there. But this
Speaker 1: is cool here, it's got the the snap here in
Speaker 1: between the two shoulder straps. It's got an extra a
Speaker 1: pocket here and an a little strap there. You can
Speaker 1: put a radio there and ht something like that. Maybe
Speaker 1: it maybe even you might even be able to put
Speaker 1: your smartphone on there, depend on what size smartphone you have,
Speaker 1: so different things like that. But this is a very
Speaker 1: cool addition to the Explorer line of these backpacks. And
Speaker 1: this is what it looks like when you're wearing it
Speaker 1: the back there, walking along like this. This is a
Speaker 1: little bit high right here, but I think that if
Speaker 1: I was to pull these leveling straps down and kind
Speaker 1: of pull the bag up like that, that wouldn't be
Speaker 1: so high. It's possible that this is actually you can adjust.
Speaker 1: I think you can adjust that. You might be able
Speaker 1: to adjust that. I'm not sure, and it might not
Speaker 1: be in the exact same place on the production bag either.
Speaker 1: But it's not bad where it is. It doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like it's choking me. But there's nothing in the bag
Speaker 1: right now either, So bag's pretty much empty except for
Speaker 1: those empty pouches I put in. But look for me
Speaker 1: at the Orlando ham cation, I will be wearing this bag.
Speaker 1: You're welcome to stop me and say, hey, can I
Speaker 1: see that? Sure, you can Gigaparts will have the production
Speaker 1: run of these bags there, especially the waterproof version, the
Speaker 1: waterproof ham Radio two point zero version, and the other
Speaker 1: versions that they have of this bag. They will have
Speaker 1: all of those well, they'll have a sample run of
Speaker 1: them there. Like I said, I think they have about
Speaker 1: five hundred of these coming in total. I think there's
Speaker 1: one hundred of the waterproof version and the other four
Speaker 1: hundred or the version of this five hundred denier I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure it's five It might be a thousand denier,
Speaker 1: but I think it's five hundred dener that this bag is,
Speaker 1: and they will have those on the website very soon.
Speaker 1: You can order from the website pre order before they
Speaker 1: come in, or you can if you get there early enough,
Speaker 1: you can pick one of the waterproof versions up at
Speaker 1: Orlando Ham Cation of twenty twenty five. Special shout out
Speaker 1: to Gigaparts, thank you for allowing me to help design
Speaker 1: this backpack. You can save a five percent discount on
Speaker 1: this bag and all the Explore items at the page
Speaker 1: which I will link in the description below. The coupon
Speaker 1: code is KC five HWB to save five percent on
Speaker 1: all the Explore items seventy three guys, come find me
Speaker 1: at Orlando ham Cation. I hope to see there