Ashhar,
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I agree with you. I have QRP radios but am looking for a tabletop portable radio with more power and a built-in tuner. I was thinking of the XEIGU but decided on using the 7300 in the EMERGENCY mode. The tuner has a wider range and 50 watts is more than enough.
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Mike N2MS
On 04/27/2021 1:12 PM Ashhar Farhan <farhanbox@...> wrote:
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I might get booted out of here for saying this, but, the IC7300 is an amazing deal for the price point. For 1000 bucks, it gives a huge radio. 100 watts, DDC receiver, all the SDR bells and whistles. If you just want to get in air, that's the one to buy. If is a far better option that a xeigu at 450 dollars. I keep saying to the HF signal folks, our competition is the IC7300. At five times the price, it is twenty times the radio.
Ok, i have put on my tin foil hat, may the stoning begin.
Building a transceiver from scratch is indeed great fun. Soldering the components on, winding the toroids, aligning the IF, setting up the filters. Then testing it all for smoke, and seeing if it works.
It's even better if you have designed the circuit, perhaps from Doug DeMaw's design guides.
Even putting on the knobs and connectors on the ready-built UBitX is fun too and can give some sense of achievement too.
It's all good.
Some areas of our hobby do however almost preclude home construction to some extent. Also as people get older they may find they don't have the dexterity or eyesight they used to have. We also have a huge chunk of the community who rarely turn on a soldering iron (that's if they own one). There are also people who travel for a living, or have little space, and having a ready-made transceiver makes more sense. We all may have a reason to purchase a commercially made transceiver.
This talk will give us some idea of whether they really are as good as the money you pay for them.
Trystan G0KAY
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