First of all let me say that I have two Hermes Lite 2, one which is used in reception only as a skimmer for F8 / FT4 / WSPR / CW.

Hermes Lite 2 is a QRP SDR which output 5 watts. It is very affordable with the main board adding also the filter board and the aluminum case you may be looking at around USD 400.

I usually use it with Thetis and the NR as well as NR2 are very very good.

One of the Hermes Lite 2 is having the normal firmware which gives you 4 slices and the TX while my second Hermes Lite 2 uses the firmware for having 10 RX slices and no TX, this one is used with CWSL Digi as well as the RBN aggregator and CW skimmer server. All of this is running on one virtual Windows 11 machine and spotting around 20,000 spots a day.

Here are some pics of the two Hermes Lite 2.