I purchased this tent primarily to use when doing ham radio contesting and rescue. I used another tent when I was sent to North Carolina post Hurricane Helene to act as the rescue group's RTO (Radio Telephone Operator) and froze my butt off. I swore that would never happen again so I began my search and I found Kodiak Canvas.
Purchased the 12 x 12 Cabin Lodge bundle complete with the tent, enclosed awning, and Spruce stove in February 2025. The package arrived about a month later as components were on backordered. This was not a problem as we had a couple of feet of snow on the ground and there was no ham radio contests or need to send me out to a disaster.
Finally, opened up and erected the package minus the stove a couple days before ARRL Field Day event in June and all I have to say is WOW. What a great tent. No loose threads, and the tent went together easily with just me putting it up. Now the enclosed awning/porch assembly was another story. There were no directions that came with that porch. Once I figured out how it went together it was a bear erecting that with just me. With two people it would have ben a snap IF there were directions.
Eventually folks arrived at the location we were doing the contest at and boy o' boy did the tent receive rave reviews. Everybody loved it and had to sit in the covered porch during the four days it was up.
During the contest we received one heavy thunderstorm which lasted about an hour and a half and the tent did not leak one single drop. We had the Editor for American Partisan there reporting on the contest and here is a link to his article which has a picture of the tent and the gear in the tent. https://www.americanpartisan.org/2025/07/after-action-report-arrl-field-day-2025/
The next time I will be setting up the tent will be in October for the Pennsylvania QSO Party contest and I plan to install and fire-up the wood stove for that event. Frost is not out of the equation nor quick bouts of snow in October in my part of NE Pennsylvania. I will post a follow-up to this review post that event. I will also write up a review for my site, Unchainedpreppers.com post that event.
Last, I have uploaded a quick picture of the tent Saturday morning surrounded by fog on top of the mountain we were playing radio on.
73 & God Bless
JohnyMac
