Radioset-GO provides an innovative combination of electronic and amateur radio technologies, with a unique, attractive design, as developed by Hanz Busch, W1JSB.
In the age of the iPhone, HAM radio has a lot to compete with if it wants to attract new people to the hobby. It needs to be simple, and efficient - that is the idea behind RSG. Here is a fun and convenient way to communicate across town, or across the ocean, using low power (QRP) and one of the oldest, yet most effective modes of radio communication, Morse code (CW).
RSG radios can be used at home, or even better, outside, at a park, hiking or camping - in fact, the inspiration for the design started as a desire to create an ideal transceiver for local emergency situations, utilizing the 80m band and NVIS propagation to cover an area the size of New England.
I know from the experience of outdoor operating, that the less there is to take along, the easier and faster it is to set up, and less chance of forgetting something! With this 'plug and play' design, the only extra equipment needed to make contacts is a resonant wire antenna, or antenna/tuner combination. The enclosure is water resistant and solar charging options are being looked into.
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Others have brought to my attention the similarity to a WWII Paraset!
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There is great joy and a sense of accomplishment in the feeling of connecting directly with someone halfway around the world through an invisible medium, using only a few watts of power, the archaic and seemingly outdated Morse code (yet still alive and well today), and equipment built at home. When band conditions are favorable, QRP CW allows for surprisingly distant communication, as evident on the video page. |
