I suppose this could be included in the Static Discharge Latching discussion. Last year a lightning storm basically fried my WSPR Desktop Mid unit, so I sent it back to Zaktek for repair. After getting it back and online, I tool the precaution to install a lightning arrestor in the antenna COAX, then decided after the first significant lightning storm to begin disconnecting the radio during storms as an extra precaution. In the interim - before I could reach the radio during a storm - the unit stopped getting reception reports on 40 meters. I got busy and just ignored that band for the time being (2 months) and finally got around to checking the radio configuration this morning. I also investigated my antenna setup and repaired one loose connection, but the 40 M reception was still just not there. This morning I connected the computer and reviewed the configuration and did discover that the check box for transmitting on 40 M had somehow become unchecked. I ran a short test on the configs and reset the power on the radio to start over again and the 40 m transmitter sprang to life and by the time I got back to the main computer, the radio had already generated 18 reception reports. I'm pleased with that outcome, as now I don't need to think about getting this radio repaired. I do plan to eventually return the fried unit and see if Harry can resurrect it for use as a spare sometime in the future. Overall I am very pleased with this Zaktec radio and would recommend one to anyone who wants to work WSPR.

As Harry mentions at the top of the home page, the USPS seems to have some serious delays in shipping from the US to Sweden. I mailed my Desktop back for repair in June 2021 and have discovered that the numbers assigned to foreign postal packages at present do not have the ability to be tracked once they leave the building! I furnished them all the numbers they assigned to my package and their entire response was "Maybe it already made it to Sweden. We can't track it." I am beginning to have doubts that it even left their facility, but they can't prove that, either. Unfortunately, DHL does not operate in my area, or I would have used them. Anyway, just a confirmation that the USPS is definitely slow at present.

After spending a week in the Chicago mail sorting center, then a whole 24 hours getting to Salida, CO from Denver, the transmitter arrived - just in time for a government holiday (Monday) so the Post Office was closed. I picked it up this morning just before noon, dug through my collection of SMA connectors and coax and quickly fabricated a short cable adapter. The radio is up and running as a WSPR beacon on 20 meters right now using a modified CB radio vertical antenna and I have about 20 spots all the way to Hawaii and in many of the states in the US. I'm impressed. This is a nice radio, easy to configure (if you pay attention and read the instructions) and uses much less power than the big ICOM I have been running. Thanks, Harry, for getting this unit in the mail to me. I don't know what Chicago does with these things for a whole week. ;-)