Dan, We can discuss at Brews with BVARC tonight. It’ll be at 18:30 at No Label brewery in Katy. It’s over by the silos.
73, Stephen (W2WF) > On Jan 6, 2026, at 10:26, Daniel Poirot via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > > > TL;DR > I am reaching out to anyone interested in SDR, EFHWs, battery operation, and > maybe even PoTA. > > > Howdy all, > > First, many thanks to the member who corrected my on-air etiquette regarding > how I was breaking into a QSO to comment. I will do better! ;-) > > Happy New Year to all. Did anyone get a shiny, new SDR rig for the new year? > I have an 8-band, uSDX+. It's yet another clone of the (tr)uSDX. I have found > about 11 or 12 clones of this design - white buttons, black buttons, orange > and blue buttons, grey buttons, HT, red corners, and orange top - lots of > them. > > The ones I have found use the uSDXOpen code, hosted on GitHub. With the > Arduino IDE, a very low-cost Arduino UNO, and a few jumper wires, I have > upgraded my firmware from 1.02 to 4.00d. Easy to do and a big improvement. > > I have this paired with a small LiFePO4 battery and a QRPGuys 'No Tune' > end-fed half-wave. Using a linked stretch of electric fence wire (thanks, Big > John), I have made contacts on 20 meters and 40 meters. Crazy, but fun! > > I am reaching out to anyone interested in SDR, EFHWs, battery operation, and > maybe even PoTA. I am happy to advise on any of these topics to the best of > my ability. > > 73's to all > Dan KJ5IZK > <586501813_1173393241558933_3326928977878799888_n.jpg> > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
