It doesn’t have to be Field Day to “take it outside”
Today’s equipment simply begs to be taken portable. When I was licensed in 1984, you could find a few compact HF radios – Icom IC-735, Kenwood TS-120S, Yaesu FT-757GX – but I was taught to be wary of solid state radios because the transistors were “fragile,” so my first rig was a Novice-proof radio called…