Topband: Great Engineering by AA7JV

[Jim Brown]

At the most recent Visalia in 2019 (and later at Dayton, I think), 
George presented two feats of engineering excellence that blew me away. 
First, his "Radio In A Box" has the potential to revolutionize 
DXpeditioning to islands, drastically reducing their cost, the number of 
hams needed, man-hours spent on the island, and the resulting impact on 
the island's natural state. All of this has the potential to make it far 
easier to obtain permissions from authorities.

Second, his observations that during DXpeditions, topband openings tend 
to occur on one night out of a couple of weeks, and that since CW and 
FT8 are the dominant modes for weak signal work, both need to active 
whenever there is the likelihood of propagation (that is, between the 
daylight sides of the terminator), led him to devise a system to achieve 
that.

Both of these achievements are described on the qrz page for C6AGU. If 
you've missed them up to now, by all means check it out!

73, Jim K9YC