Testing Power Output on the Minion Mini 10 band Direct Conversion Transceiver

Just a short video showing power output across the bands on a Minion Mini Transceiver. Measurements are done at 13.5v with a Sandford Wattmeter. There has been a large amount of interest in the new Minion SDR transceiver recently, and thus also the Minion Mini Transceiver. I had the opportunity to borrow the unit featured in this video and created a thread on the SOTA Reflector detailing my findings:
https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/minion-mini/18213

The upshot of it all is that this unit needs better low pass filtering than whatever is has built in; if any. A look at the website shows that a low pass filtering unit is offered and, indeed, recommended as an accessory to both the Minion Mini and Minion SDR; at an additional cost of $80. There is not much information either on the Minion Mini webpage or in the manual about output filtering. However, the Minion SDR webpage does mention the option of setting a low pass filter instead of a broadband filter. Personally, I have no interest in radios that do not include sufficient output filtering as standard, whatever their size. I found most of the accessories to be of a very basic standard and felt that I could have sourced them all for myself more cheaply and to a higher standard.
When keying the radio in CW, I found it to be incredibly sensitive to stray RF, causing the display to freeze and necessitating a restart. Whilst this rig may well appeal to hams who are good at modding things, it is not something I would buy myself.

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