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I just inherited an L2. I built this antenna for my wife's dad about 6 months ago. The build was much harder than I anticipated, but went ok. We stood it up on an 8-foot pole in the yard and got the SWR down to very respectable levels (don't remember exactly, but like 1.2). We then put it up at...

I would also like to try the Bearcat BC804NC noise cancelling microphone if it would be plug and play. I am not a fan of the Astatics or the RKs, I do love the Ranger SRA-198. But it would be cool to have something that was actually built to go with this series of radios.

I just got a new Lincoln II Plus I am using as a base station. Great little radio. In the past, I owned a Uniden Bearcat 980, and used their BC906W wireless microphone on it. Very handy. Recently I saw a President Liberty wireless microphone that is obviously the same basic construction and...

I recently bought a new Magnum UTB-1 variable talkback board for my older Cobra 148-GTL side-mic radio. There are i structions in the package and all over the web and youtube. They all require cutting a board trace leading from the external speaker jack. My board has no such trace. Have any of...