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Re:FT8 – Tipping Point for Ham Radio? by sliken on Friday October 19, 2018 @08:59PM (#18261113)
I've searched this space looking for a decent RX/TX SDR that does a few watts. It's surprisingly hard. Seems like the 5 watt $30 HTs (that are SDR based) are extremely common, but as soon as you add any flexibility it's $1000s.
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Re:FT8 – Tipping Point for Ham Radio? by ChuckMcM on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:17PM (#18261547)
Those two constraints are easily separated. Radio and separate power amplifier. You will find that a really wide band power amp is expensive so a lot of people will have two to five PAs and an RF switch to select between them
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