More power to both you guys!? ?I'm sure it can be done better; I just had some time and it bubbled to the top of my available projects.
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This is such an elegant little radio!? ?I'm at our ancient vacation home almost up in the mountains of North Carolina and I have my (repaired) V2 here in a simple plywood "go-box" with an autotuner, a Signalink and a power supply.? ?It drives an ancient Heathkit SB-200 when I want to, along with a heavily repaired Heathkit SB-102 that has just come back "on line."? [Those radios are effectively EMP-immune.]? ? ?The little sBitx now happily responds to WINLINK commands from my PC, changes frequencies, activates the linear if desired, and now has a TUNE button that works analagously to the one on an Icom 7300.? ?All on a tiny circuitboard!? ?I read some other blogs and people are building very nice homebrew radios, but on a zillion boards and not (yet) up and really fully debugged and finished and available to the masses like THIS radio.? Every radio is a compromise to reach some set of goals under some set of constraints but this one is rising to the point that I'm starting to recommend it to newbies in our volunteer disaster communications group.? ?On 80/40 meters we really need the power of the V2 version.? Having a headroom up to 40W makes it so much easier to stay fully linear with 30-35W of data techniques, which we use a LOT.? ?Winlink has just added GIS-mappable report systems and we are rolling out a hamradio technique for volunteers to send in reports from our geographic area that can automatically populate a MAP and give situational awareness to the authorities.? ? I understand that many 911 systems were affected by the CrowdStrike debacle....and our group just keeps on developing RADIO backup systems for disaster response.
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What an elegant radio!
73
Gordon KX4Z
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P.S.? For some reason, even tho I have my settings to get individual messages, I didn't seem to....perhaps another outcome of the Crowdstrike????
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