{"id":46799,"date":"2020-12-06T09:29:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T13:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=46799"},"modified":"2020-12-07T08:01:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T12:01:46","slug":"a-comprehensive-review-of-the-mission-rgo-one-general-coverage-50-watt-transceiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/a-comprehensive-review-of-the-mission-rgo-one-general-coverage-50-watt-transceiver\/","title":{"rendered":"A comprehensive review of the Mission RGO One general coverage 50 watt transceiver"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following review was first published in the November 2020 issue of The Spectrum Monitor<\/a> magazine:<\/em><\/p>\n

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A review of the Mission RGO One ham radio transceiver<\/h1>\n

by Thomas (K4SWL \/ M0CYI)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wow…I love this! <\/i><\/p>\n

If I am perfectly frank, that<\/i> would sum up my initial impression of the Mission RGO One.<\/b><\/p>\n

It was the 2018 Hamvention in Dayton, Ohio, and I had just met up with radio engineer Boris Sapundzhiev (LZ2JR) who was debuting the prototype of his 50-watt transceiver kit<\/a>, the Mission RGO One<\/b>. With its clean, functional design and simple front face, large weighted encoder, and enough tactile buttons and multi-function knobs to keep one\u2019s most needed features within reach, the kit was certainly pushing all the right buttons for me.<\/i>\u00a0 Without a doubt, I was impressed from the start.<\/p>\n

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Boris (LZ2JR) the designer and engineer of the Mission RGO One.<\/p><\/div>\n

To my mind, the RGO One smacks of classic 1990s-era transceivers:\u00a0 a traditional tabletop front-facing panel, a large fold-out bail, and a unfussy backlit LCD display that\u2019s large enough to read in the field and viewable at any angle.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps it\u2019s only because I can\u2019t turn off the innate radio reviewer, that I was rapidly checking mental boxes in this first encounter with the RGO One.\u00a0 Indeed, when I first set eyes on any new radio, I do skim through my mental \u201coperations checklist\u201d to see how difficult the rig might be to use at home and\/or in the field. Specifically, I\u2019m looking for the following controls:<\/p>\n