With a cat to the summit

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The SOTA+ videos are excellent. They made a video about the Quansheng PCB modification which I followed to modify mine.

Here’s my Quannie!

I made my own CW key!

Just to confirm, my little key works lovely with the aul Quannie! In fact, using a spring-based, flexible stereo plug seems to help with letting it rest nicely on the exposed rubber jack cover without causing strain or having to adjust the rubber like you do with the Ali Express paddle that everyone seems to be using presently (including myself). I am running IJV Mod 2.95 here and also performed the internal mod, removing a resistor and wiring in a small jumper cable. Fiddly but it does work! T…

Does it work?

You bet it does! I made 4 contacts on 270 at EI Hamfest last weekend. 2 on 2m and 2 on 70cm (the world’s two favourite bands of course! ).

Love SOTA+. One of the few YouTube channels worth subscribing to. None of this yelling at the camera “What’s up guys!…” and shrieking about how excited they are to unbox their new favourite radio (insert freebies they received here).

Or worse, 25 minutes filming an unopened Amazon box about their latest purchase of paperclips while talking about what they had for their tea last night, then tangeting off in to what their next door neighbours dads uncles second cousins sister in laws nephews aunties brother in laws local notary public did at a tea dance in Walton On The Naze 3 Sundays ago.