Considering the price increase and unless you really need the GPIO I don’t know why you would pick this over a second hand 1L form factor PC… I love raspberry pi but since I picked up an m720q with an i5-9500t and 64 Gb of Ram that can run very intensive tasks such as a 16 slices CW/FT8/WSPR plus WebSDR and several others in Windows 11 and Linux VM or Container under proxmox they have become a very tough sell. Not to mention the way the Raspberry pi foundation treated the maker community during COVID.

I usually try to support the local association wherever I leave. I have been a member of the REF in France, the DARC in Germany, the SARTS in Singapore and now RATS in Thailand. I don’t really care for what they offer ( indeed I don’t even applied for a reciprocal Thai callsign) but it’s more so they have the funds to support and lobby for our bands. They are the voice of our hobby against telcos who are willing to pay billions in fees for our frequencies especially in the SHF and up landscape. If no one defends those bands, we can say bye bye to anything above 70cm within a couple of years.

Jimmy Carter, Céline Dion, Michael Gorbatchev, Bruce Springsteen, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many many more. One of the benefits of working in the luxury hotel scope for a few years.