The rig is back up and running.
I made two QSOs last night from the home QTH with a lot of noise! They were to KA6JLT in Reno, NV and and WN1Z in Susanville, CA from here in San Francisco.
This time, we did not measure the power out of Project TouCans. I suspect our several decades old Radio Shack power meter has given up the ghost, or there's something wonky in one of the cheapo connectors from Amazon.
As a side note, the radio is much quieter and works better when the RF output leads are soldered directly to the banana binding posts at the top of the rig that the antenna attaches to.
Side, side note. KO6BTY and I need to keep a slightly cleaner workbench. The rig sparked and vaporized a stray shred of wire yesterday once when we powered it up.
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