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getting out of his truck and walking down the street is a dangerous position? his authority to be on a public street? really? yes GZ was an ass, and in a situation that he could have avoided easily, BUT he was also the VICTIM of an assault, for walking down the same street as TM, which many...

man on his back, with a broken nose, and his head being bounced off something hard, compared to woman who fired a round with no idea where it would end up, and did not feel in enough jeopardy for her life to think she only had to warn her estranged husband (or who ever he was) not kill him NOW...

i am looking for a 10m / cb for my oh sh*t kit. i like the idea of having a single radio to cover cb bands, and 10m for emergency communications. i am limited by licence to a small part of the 10m band in normal times, so i don't need something that will do much more hf than that. what i want...

what would you recommend instead?

which would cost more, the road taxes, or the machine gun taxes?

i second the Baofeng UV3R, they are cheap, and easily programed with CHIRPS. the radio and cable will run you less than $50.

as a former paratrooper i hardly notice it in conversations.

change the channel

strike your when, and replace with only one. the dangers of talk to text and alcohol. kenwood tm-v71a

you could put cloth under the magnet to protect the finish of the car.

the ability to send the ID's is built into the radio or cross band repeator controller. not all the radios have this feature your when I can think of off the top of my head the does is the Kenwood. there are probably others that I am not aware of that will do it also

I was going to use my old radio ruck from my army days. a mediem Alice pack with a large pocket in it for the sincguar radio. I was gonna build a box roughly the size of the pocket, and put the battery on the bottem of the pack frame. I jumped a radio in it a couple of times, and didn't see...

okay I guess this goes in the pile of my hair brained ideas. thank you for a warning me off before I fried a radio.

this is the one i am looking at High Power 12 Volt Power Supplies With Adjustable Voltage

i was thinking of a whip for a backpack (something to take along on hikes easily) i would love to find the equivalent of the SINCGARS man pack antenna. why not? i figured i would need to mount it in a box, leaving a couple of inches all around it for air flow, what else am i missing about...