My wife had watched me carefully collecting (inexpensive) parts to build a uBitX over many months. When she heard about Ash¡¯s ¡®elves are busy¡¯ post,she game me the $$$ to buy one. It¡¯s been fun, and I¡¯m planning to try it on FT8 tonight (finished soldering the cables a couple nights ago). It¡¯s exactly what Ashhar designed: an amazingly inexpensive transceiver that, with a little work, will soon do almost everything my FT-817 can - with a better receiver! It¡¯s cheap, it¡¯s fun, and I¡¯ve learned a lot from it and from the others on this list.
Craig Wadsworth