UV-PRO MANPACK
A deployable cross-band repeater — in the truck, in the ruck, to the field. Built around the BTECH UV-50PRO: 50 watts of range extension for your whole net, an APRS gateway, and a bridge into TAK — assembled to work the moment it comes out of the pack.
A handheld only reaches as far as the terrain lets it.
Ridgelines, timber, and distance kill a 5-watt handheld fast. A repeater fixes that for everyone at once: put the MANPACK on high ground, run it from the truck, or carry it forward in the ruck, and it hears your team on one band and re-transmits at 50 watts on the other. Every handheld on the net suddenly reaches as far as the node does.
Retransmit power — 10× a handheld
Cross-band repeat — hear one band, repeat the other
Node — lifts every radio on your net
In the truck. In the ruck. To the field.
The same node, however you move it — mounted and mobile, carried forward, or stood up on high ground. Nothing to reconfigure between them.
Mounted & mobile
Run it from the vehicle on 13.8 V with the antenna up high — a repeater that moves with the convoy.
Carried forward
Self-powered on the LiFePO₄ pack, caged in the frame, stowed in the Eberlestock. The node goes where you go.
Stood up on site
Set it on high ground, whip vertical, and let it repeat. Dismounted infrastructure in minutes.
Every part chosen, then made to work together.
You could source these parts yourself. The hard part was never buying them — it's the wiring, the fitment, and the hours of making them behave as one node. We did that part.
BTECH UV-50PRO
50 W · VHF ⇄ UHF cross-band repeaterBuilt-in cross-band repeater and APRS digipeater. Hears one band, re-transmits the other at 50 W — the radio that lifts the whole net.
Armoloq rail frame
Aluminum TPA · built to our spec for the UV-50PROMachined aluminum that cages the radio, carries the antenna and mic, and takes the abuse a loose radio in a bag never survives.
Armoloq MBS-1280
Kydex enclosure · LiFePO₄ · PowerpoleA formed-Kydex battery compartment that mounts to the frame and stands the whole system upright.
Iron Spear Maximus
Nitinol dual-band whip · rated to 50 WBends flat, snaps back, won't take a set. Tuned for 2 m / 70 cm and handles the radio's full output.
Eberlestock R4 ROMAD
Comms pack · ~25 LA comms assault pack sized for PRC-117-class radios — antenna ports, cable runs, slim profile.
Radio Relay ATAK plugin
Bluetooth · ATAK integrationBridges the radio to TAK, so the pack carries your position and text — not only your voice.
See the whole node.
Front to back — the radio, the aluminum frame, the Kydex battery, and the wiring that ties them into one deployable unit.
Assembled, wired, and tested — not a parts list.
Cross-band repeat configured. APRS set. Anderson Powerpole terminations, antenna relocation, frame fitment, TAK pairing — all done. You get a node that works when you take it out of the bag, instead of a weekend of forum threads and a drawer full of the wrong adapters.
That integration is the product. It's the reason this is a MANPACK and not a shopping list.
Voice is half the picture. TAK is the other half.
Paired with the Radio Relay ATAK plugin, the node doesn't just repeat your team's voice — it puts position and text traffic onto a shared map. Everyone running TAK sees everyone else, on a phone, a tablet, or a laptop. No cell service, no internet, no infrastructure required.
The numbers.
Specs finalize with the first production batch. Waitlist members get the complete sheet — and the price — first.
Get first-batch pricing.
We're building a limited first run of the UV-PRO MANPACK. Join the list and we'll send you the price and your allocation window before it goes public.
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