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Got a chance to boot mine (S/N 22) up last night and so far, so good.? I haven't tried transmitting, yet, as I have a non-resonant ZS6BKW dipole (in an inverted vee configuration), and I listened only to 40M.? SSB receive sounded good, and CW, and FT8 signals were loud and strong at my QTH in SE Michigan.? I have an external LDG autotuner I can use.? Is there a low-power TUNE mode in the v2.0 to protect the output transistors from transient high SWR during the tuning cycle?

I prefer slow AGC for SSB and Fast for CW, but it seems that the v2.0 doesn't 'remember' the AGC setting on a per-mode basis?

It would also be nice to be able to have additional RF bandwidth presets and/or edit the ones already provided, to match my other main radio (Elecraft K3s) where SSB is 2.8 kHz (100Hz - 2900Hz) by default, and I tend to use CW at 400 Hz (centered around 600 Hz).? When running FT8, the DATA mode automatically turns off TX EQ, TX Compression, and RX NB (which pokes holes in the signal), RX EQ (there likely others) by default, to give a flat TX/RX analog data response.

Also, the Elecraft has both a Lo-cut/Hi-cut and center/bandwidth DSP controls - pushing in one of the bandwidth controls switches between the modes, and pushing the other resets to the 'default' bandwidth on a per mode basis.? If you've never played with an Elecraft, you are missing out on a very nice human interface.

I should get around to transmitting by this weekend.

73,

-- Dave, N8SBE