kit building

With the popularity of FT8 and other related digital modes on the rise, there has been an increase in the availability of kits that bring these modes to portable operating. QRP Labs, the brainchild of Hans Summers, GØUPL, is on the right track with the third version of the pocket-sized QDX 4-band digital modes kit. This is not a beginner’s kit, but a very rewarding kit once completed.

This “deck of cards”-sized kit is a four-band QRP digital modes transceiver, covering the 80-, 40-, 30-, and 20-meter bands. This kit is about the same size as the ever-popular QCX Mini, but needs no display. There is only one