Last month I gave a presentation to my club about getting Technicians onto HF using FT8 – My reason for going that approach is that their only HF allocation is on the 10-meter band, and investing in a modern radio can be expensive. Fairly inexpensive QRP gear, like the QMX+, is fully capable of working FT8 when the band is open. Also, antennas, like a home-built dipole, are inexpensive, and easy to deploy.
Oddly enough, club members were most interested in the QMX+ QRP rig, and several ordered the kits from QRP-LABS.COM
Here is a copy of the presentati0n
I spent much of the rest of July running my QMX+ on 10-meter FT8
