Like with everything, there is a right and wrong way in ‘doing the FT8’. The wrong way is shown above: a slowly cooked under-rated radio at full power in key-down mode.

The right way: to use your baby radio as a driver to an over-rated amplifier, with the output power set to the legal limit (120W in Australia).

Photo shared with permission, for educational purposes only. Not an ICOM radio :-]

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