UHSDR aligned: Where does the mcHF clone excel?

I spent about an hour and a half today with the mcHF clone on the bench undergoing a full alignment. The radio, not me.

Alignment of this radio is simple and the instructions are menu-driven & easy to follow - but there are a lot of optional settings that go a long way toward configuring the radio to operate in a manner that makes ergonomic and operational sense.

If I had not owned a mcHF for a number of years, I would not know about those settings without delving more deeply into the various menu items available.

So why a mcHF clone?

• Genuine mcHF's are no longer available new
• For $350 I have a 10-80m, all mode QRP transceiver that is a real performer, not a gimmick radio
• Built-in sound card for easy digital operation with CAT, audio in, audio out - all on a single USB cable
• The mcHF firmware is now mature. But there are at least two others developing new features into this rig, with different functionality and different on-screen info/accessibility
• For the price, I can take the rig motorcycling and not worry about heat or mechanical vibration possibly damaging an expensive radio. It's not a $1500 KX2 if I accidentally leave it in the car on a summer day.
• The alignments are great for learning the new test equipment that many hams now have, ie, the TinySA.

With my old mcHF, I worked 84 DXCC entities on CW and 53 on FT8. This new clone seems identical in performance. I bought my original mcHF as a back-up portable rig and ended up using it more than the radio(s) it was meant to back up.

For $350, it's too capable of a radio not to have.

First contact after the alignment was a 15m CW contact with Stu M0TTQ who was activating a park near Portsmouth, England:

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