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Hi Y'all;? I'm Reuben Titus, N4ISF. Middle TN. ? A friend told me about the uBitx so I ordered one yesterday. Figure I will try it for home/portable/mobile,? maybe tie in a tube amp for home use, maybe build me a solid state amp for portable if the power source is good for it,? or not if it's limited to a small battery. ? I have a Heathkit 80-100 watt all tube transmitter I started with as novice around 1980 if it still works, (it was old then)? it was an AM-CW only unit but could do SSB with external signal input. ? As original it had a drifty tube VFO with crystal option, and the HQ145X receiver that I used was very drifty as well. ? ? Most of my electronics education was early 80's style on back,? the 1982 ARRL amateur handbook was my reference book,? I wore it out and still use it. Spent a lot of time with the QST magazine issues from the 1930's to 80's that I found in a library.? ?? Haven't kept up with modern stuff very well,? but I can try.? And I've been foolin with various things over the years and picked up enough test equipment to play with stuff a little, oscilloscope,? capacitance/inductance meter, signal generators, ? etc.? Mostly doing stuff like weird versions of brushless DC motors, making my own electric fence chargers and electronic ignitions for old vehicles,? etc. ?? So. ? New project to get me a working transceiver again.? The kenwood TS820 I have started having issues a while back so I've been thinking of finding something else, something I can carry around and mess with easier. ? The 820 likes to stay put (heavy) and the interior is so packed it looks like a challenge to fix. And a bigger challenge to figure out why it's doing what it's doing,? throwing in excessive interference on the received signal and kicking the digital readout off at the same time.? ? Think I'll put it on ebay sooner or later,? it might sell for enough to recover the cost of the uBitx. since I see a nonworking one on there now that's bid to over $100.