NorCal 40B – It works

Well – the NorCal 40B works.  I aimed for short contacts to test the little radio and it works.  A SOTA contact, three POTA contacts and an SKCC contact, and the thing works.  It is running ~2 watts and due to user error the first contact (SOTA in KY) was made at ~.3 watts.

I did mess up the case a bit.  It is a clever way to make a case, but a bit cheesy.  That is no excuse for the small mistake I made in assembling it.