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The CommRadio CTX-10 QRP transceiver<\/p><\/div>\n

Universal Radio is now taking orders for the CommRadio CTX-10 QRP transceiver. The price is $999.99 and the expected shipping date is March 1, 2018. Universal notes that they will not charge customers until the units begin shipping.<\/p>\n

Once radios are in production, I plan to review the CTX-10.<\/p>\n

Click here to view the CTX-10 at Universal Radio.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Universal Radio is now taking orders for the CommRadio CTX-10 QRP transceiver. The price is $999.99 and the expected shipping date is March 1, 2018. Universal notes that they will not charge customers until the units begin shipping. Once radios are in production, I plan to review the CTX-10. Click here to view the CTX-10 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,26,43],"tags":[1626,5541,5542,3276,1303,58],"class_list":["post-30137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-commradio","tag-commradio-ctx-10","tag-ctx-10","tag-general-coverage-transceivers","tag-qrp","tag-universal-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7Q5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21790,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-new-commradio-ctx-10-qrp-transceiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":30137,"position":0},"title":"The new CommRadio CTX-10 QRP general coverage transceiver","author":"Thomas","date":"October 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Fred Osterman and Dave Zantow for sharing information about the new CommRadio CTX-10 transciever. \u00a0Here is the description from Universal Radio's catalog: AeroStream Communications near Golden, Colorado entered the hobby radio market in 2013 with their revolutionary CommRadio CR-1 and follow up CR-1a SDR receivers. 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