How about building your own smart-tuner?

This is L-C-L matching network antenna tuner build and designed by K3NG, using an Arduino

https://blog.radioartisan.com/arduino-antenna-tuner/

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I've discovered this amazing video about VP8ORK, South Orkney Islands DXpedition by James Brooks, 9V1YC
The South Orkney Islands are located below 60 degrees south and are one of only four DXCC entities within the UN Antarctic Treaty Zone.

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A NAS is great for your backups of e.g. your valuable log data and so on, but you can't call them cheap nor can you do what you like with them.

If you sill have a usb hard-drive lying around or a Beaglebone Black that you bought to play with but without a destination you're halfway there already!

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A "digital all-mode" transceiver, that's what I was waiting for, and now it has arrived (almost)

This DV4mobile is a tri-band VHF/UHF transceiver ( 2m, 1.25m and 70cm) that supports DMR, D-STAR and C4FM ( or "fusion") all in one box.

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This is an interesting chart comparing the most popular SDR project out there.

(source: limesdr crowdfunding)