Is there a similarly priced and sized SDR that can both receive and transmit?
Having received my ticket recently, I'd love to try some digital ham radio modes without spending a fortune.
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There is the LimeSDR Mini that is currently being croudfunded[1]. For $140 USD you would be hard pressed to find anything like it that would give you full duplex across that frequency range. I own the full size LimeSDR device and it has been a great piece of hardware for playing around with.
Lime has the best hardware/specs at their price points, but their software toolchain is atrocious; just trying to do simple tasks in GNURadio is so flaky/error prone
Not that I've seen. There exists SDR hardware for transmitting, but all seemed to start at multiple $100's. In any case note that you will almost certainly need a license to transmit on most interesting frequencies and power levels.
Edit: "ticket" = license?
You are correct, ticket is ham nomenclature for license.
Why are SDRs for TX when you can get a SoTA radio in a smartphone for < $10?