The year is almost over the companies continue to put out crap that we don't want they refused to give us an HF UHF VHF 100 watt radio nobody wants to do qrp nobody and those that do just like to be abused punish other people by making them struggle to try and copy their weak signal the only reason to do qrp is to reduce the footprint and the weight for portable operations and there's a balance between power weight and portable qrp has very few advantages over a 20-watt g90 or something like an ft-891 that you could turn down to 50% or whatever you want to do I've done plenty of portable work and I can tell you qrp is a gigantic waste of time unless you want to drive yourself nuts and I'm sure some fanatic is going to chime in here and tell me that I need to do this and I need to do that well guess what I want consistent reliable Communications okay I don't want to be qrp when the world is going down in flames and I'm trying to make a contact I don't want to be trying to contact somebody in the middle of a natural disaster with some piece of crap 5 watt radio that I have to scream into the microphone to be heard reliable comms not a big fan of sadomasochism radio crap not a big fan of making somebody struggle to copy me and brag about I worked them on one what like great you made everybody have a hard time hearing you and wasting everybody's time when the contact could have been made in a quarter of the amount of time it's about efficiency not stupidity. Anyway my point is the big radio manufacturers are not giving anybody what they're asking for we want 100 W radio reminiscent of the old Icom 706 is the yasu 857 radios like that