WoW: @marcspaz: I told you, I agree with you 99% of the time and to be honest, you are probably the most "reliable" source of information on this Forum.
I am not trying to convince you of anything! You were the one who jumped into my response to @wayoverthere and changed the conversation to 'reliability!"
The problem is you took this comment of mine that was a reply to @wayoverthere's statement: "…they're still somewhat limited feature wise, especially for the price point....if they work for you as they are (and you're okay with the price), they aren't a bad choice."
And you responded:
With all due respect, I was not discussing reliability at that point; you raised that point!
So I did the research to show that many users of Midland radios are over paying for confusion out of the box, by quoting those threads! Confusion is inherently unreliable!; especially if you are "paying extra for ease of use!"
I have NO DOUBT that Midland radios are easy to FOR YOU to use out of the box, given your genius status!
Newbies pay extra for these rather mundane radios and yet are still somewhat perplexed at how to get 100% operational usefulness from them, as shown by the threads I quoted. Don't get hung up on the concept of "reliability;" that was not MY point!
If that is what they pay extra for, more power to them!
@RIPPER238 asked me for an alternative that is less expensive, same or more features and reliable and I gave him his answer.