Here are a few of the products that stood out at Hamvention this year.

SoftRock RXTX Ensemble Transceiver Kit – 1 watt SDR transceiver that can be built for one of the following five band groups: 160m, 80m/40m,40m/30m/20m, 30m/20m/17m, or 15m/12m/10m. fivedash.com

Alexloop Walkham – I talked with a ham who was blow away with this antenna, he had it paired with an Electraft KX3.  The antenna has a built in tuner that covers 7 to 30 MHz.  alexloop.com

Pixie2 – A $10 QRP Transceiver! Although most of the QRP circuits today have evolved into using superhet receivers, a diversion back to direct conversion is not unusual…since QRP, after all, is a unique part of amateur radio and simplicity is certainly a part of it.  The Pixie 2 is a tiny rig, with a standard two transistor transmitter. It’s a Colpitts oscillator, left running, and a keyed power amplifier. There is no external mixer used to feed the audio amplifier. Instead, the mixing is done at the final amplifier itself with the resulting audio taken off the emitter. http://www.kenneke.com

Custom transformers from epd-inc.com

Dress up  your shack with a metal print of your ticket.  $25 shipped from hamcrazy.com