The zBitx is path breaking 5 watts, 64-bit integrated SDR radio. It covers 80M to 10, on CW/SSB/AM/FreeDV/FT8/SSTV with a 480×320 touch screen. It measures just 6.5”x3”x1.5” and it can run off two LiPo batteries (battery case included in the cost). $149 + shipping and Paypal fee - real total $178. I'm not buying one from the first production run, but holy cow, if the listed specs are right on and the output has no spurs - I have my wallet in hand. See zBitx – HF SIGNALS I see this as the (tr)uSDX killer.
No It covers 80M to 10, on CW/SSB/AM/FreeDV/FT8/SSTV tops out at 30 Mhz - HF only. Transceiver. A small, inexpensive, multimode transceiver.
I got the G90, and then a second one. Haven't looked back. Does look like an interesting box especially for that money! I will have to fight temptation when it comes to a decent radio under $200.....
I'm waiting to buy - i went to hear actual user experience, not some 'influencer' radio pimp. I also want to see the spectral purity, past products have been lousy with spurs, etc.
I actually went out to RTL-SDR.com and picked up one of their V4 dongles. Haven't set it up on my Linux machine yet, it was my plan to do that over Xmas vacation but .. it arrived too late for that.
@DKR Sign me up! Yeah, I am buying one too...but like you, I want to hear if it can walk-the-walk. Let us all know what you hear and thanks a bunch for bringing this to our attention!
VT, would be interested to here your opinion on the RTL-SDR dongle as I'm thinking of getting one simply to play around with a bit. I have a iCom 7300 so not new to SDR but simply looking at the dongle to team with an old small laptop I refurbished to use as a comms laptop for programming radios, FLDigi, etc. field stuff. Really, just something to play with... SDR# and recently SDR Console are on my list to operate my RTL-SDR dongle. What software you looking at to run your dongle?
