![]() ![]() Posted in Radio Hacks, Reviews Tagged ham radio, QRP, sdr, software-defined radio Post navigation If you prefer something more analog, grab seven transistors and build this SSB transceiver. You might borrow an antenna idea from him, at least. This is a bit pricey for $50 Ham series, but not by much. Towards the end of the video, you can see the radio make some contacts, too. Looking inside, the radio looks surprisingly well made. According to commenters, the radio doesn’t have an internal charging circuit, so you have to be careful what you plug into the charging port. There are also ports for a key, external microphone and speakers, and audio connections that look like they’d work for digital modes. There are ports for power to run the radio if you want to not use the battery and a separate port for battery charging. There are a few buttons, a rotary encoder, and an LCD along with a speaker and microphone built-in. There isn’t much on the front of the radio. There are several variations of the radio available and they cost generally less than $200 - sometimes quite a bit less. ![]() ![]() SSB is an odd choice for low power operation, although we wonder if you couldn’t feed digital data in using a mode like PSK31 that has good performance at low power. You can see his video about the gear below. The radio is a clone of a German project and provides a low-power radio with a rechargeable battery. does a nice job of unboxing the rig and checking it out. Talking about this Chinese ham radio transceiver requires a veritable flurry of acronyms: HF, SSB, QRP, and SDR to start with. ![]()
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