{"id":384,"date":"2024-09-24T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/?p=384"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T16:13:37","slug":"the-dx-ft8-portable-qrpp-ft8-transceiver-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"An Exciting New QRPp Radio &#8211; &#8220;DX FT8&#8221; Portable Transceiver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I caught wind of this recently and felt it was worth sharing. It&#8217;s a 5-band (10m, 12m, 15m, 17m, 20m) QRP FT8 Transceiver that also handles logging internally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on their previous work together, the tiny radio is a new collaboration between W5BAA and WB2CBA that features a large 4.3&#8243; color touchscreen GUI in a compact design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"805\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-1.png\" alt=\"QRPp\" class=\"wp-image-385\" style=\"width:473px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-1.png 805w, https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-1-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-1-768x531.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looks like transmit power is less than 1 watt, so take that into account before going and ordering a kit to build your own. Kit ordering information is available on their <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/WB2CBA\/DX-FT8-FT8-MULTIBAND-TABLET-TRANSCEIVER\">GitHub page<\/a>, but some parts must be sourced from Mauser or Digi-Key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any reviews of the radio from others, you can watch a YT video of it from the builders, showing off some of the functionality and features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DX FT8 - A QRPp 5 band stand alone FT8 transceiver with touchscreen GUI terminal\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8b2WOxESAVU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 5-band FT8 QRP transceiver with a wonderful color GUI is a good looking open source project you can build yourself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,35,36],"tags":[38,40,39,21,37],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-qrp","category-radios","tag-ft8","tag-kit-radios","tag-open-source","tag-pota","tag-qrp"],"blocksy_meta":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-1.png",805,557,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-1.png",805,557,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-1.png",805,557,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-1-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-1-300x208.png",300,208,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-1.png",805,557,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-1.png",805,557,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-1.png",805,557,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"N8GMZ","author_link":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">QRP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/?cat=36\" rel=\"category\">Radios<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"A 5-band FT8 QRP transceiver with a wonderful color GUI is a good looking open source project you can build yourself","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.we8chz.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}