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  1. Whoo boy, the new QST rips the #QMX+ on its six meter performance and says it “should not be used to transmit anywhere on that band” because of its spurious emissions. That’s not even all they complained about.

    That will put a wet blanket on your magic July propagation. I may have to fire up groups.io to see the response.

    #QRPLabs #6m #6meters #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #ARRL #QST

  2. #SSB on the #QRPLabs #QMX+ 5W HF transceiver is just so unnecessarily painful. The built-in microphone doesn't work. Standard microphones don't work.

    The very specific microphone capsule required goes for 21 € inc. shipping from Digikey. A finished microphone assembly by G7UFO is 41,85 € inc. shipping. The whole QMX+ kit is only 125 USD, on comparison.

    I have revision 4 of the PCB. Really would have expected it to have been fixed to take any microphone by now, or come with the microphone.