If you are just now wading through the shoe box of receipts to prepare your 2024 Income tax, this might be a tough day. Elon has you in his sights for waste fraud and abuse. Certainly, no pressure on you.
I once was audited in the 1970's and spent a whole day with an IRS agent who you could tell had one goal -- find a problem and make her day. That year I must have fit the profile of those they wanted to investigate. At the end of the day, she said I didn't like the way you handled some expenses associated with a piece of rental property I owned.
After pounding away on her calculator, she said you owe $100 in back taxes. I sat there astonished! I had to take a day off of work and certainly the 8 hours she spent trying to nail me was more costly than $100 she was about to recover. Then in a piece of coordination I have never seen before, 3 days later I got a Bill from the State of California for $21 in back taxes.
Here is an example of what she went after. I claimed $56 in telephone charges with calls to the Management company who did the property oversight. I showed her the Telephone number of the company and then my phone bills with that number and the cost.
She grabbed the documents from my hands and added up all of the calls and that came to $54 -- where is the extra two dollars she asked. On one bill I noted that I spent $2 in a phone booth as I called during my lunch hour while at work. (This was before cell phones.) She said I am disallowing $2 since you have no real receipt. Why would I lie about $2? We are back to those days again.
In the QUSIK software is some embedded functionality to address images of the signals that result from the mixing process. There are buttons to address the Received signal images as well as the Transmitted images. This process is done across the entire band so that about every 50KHz you essentially set up a database of compensations to eliminate images.
The Receive side has been done and in a terminal window you can see the compensations being applied. The Transmit side has yet to be tackled and I can see already we have a significant image about 30 kHz away from the frequency in the QUISK window. So how do I know that? Well, I plugged the MHST into a dummy load and tuned across the band and listened on an outboard receiver. Trust me it is there and needs to be addressed before putting the MHST on the air in transmit.
So, for the next several days that is the task at hand.
BTW claiming a new set of golf clubs is likely not a legitimate business expense. But fixing the XYL's crooked teeth probably OK.
Them that know can make it go.
73's
Pete N6QW