I received kit #4072 on Thursday, opened the box and made sure it looked like it was all there. Unpacked and inventoried on Friday evening, started the assembly. I finished the assembly on Saturday, 20 March, and was quite happy when it ran through all its calibrations and was able to even receive WWV at 15 MHz with about 20' of wire stuck in the Ant1 jack. After fine adjusting the VCO with a real antenna I put it on the air. Even though I bought the 100W finals, so far I haven't used them except for calibration. I've had quite satisfactory QSOs with Sweden, Holland, Spain, and Scotland, all using 10W or less on SSB on 20, 17, and 15 meters with a 20/40M drooping dipole (well, almost an inverted vee) hanging at about 21 feet. The receiver is wonderful, the transmitter seems to work as nicely as any I've used, and the built-in tuner will probably tune a wet noodle! All in all, I'm very happy and look forward to many years with this rig!
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