Placed in front of a modest rover capable dish this could pretty much kick butt. Given $200 I could probably scavenge up some TR relays good for 5 cm and maybe a whole watt or so. Looking at the cost of a FT-817 and a transverter, I imagine you could save quite a bit of dough using this device. I would imagine QEX/QST and the like will have ham radio band amp designs for a couple bucks soon enough after this thing rolls out. COTS MMIC amps and some filters and you'll have a vaguely competitive contest rover. Well with a reasonably high gain antenna -15 dBm is OK. So say you want to operate legally as a ham radio op on 5760.1 operating CW. What it really depends on is your modulation method.
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