If going portable near home with either your scanner or ham handie-talkie (HT), it’s as easy as clipping the radio and maybe a spare battery to your belt and that’s it. If you realize later that you need a battery charger or other accessory, you’re close enough to home to conveniently take care of whatever you missed the first time you walked out the door.
It’s not so easy when you’re going a bit farther from home — like a day’s outing, Field Day, hamfest, or vacation — since we can’t conveniently return home to grab what we forgot. How do we ensure we take along everything we need