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I'm not sure "investment" is the word I'd use

Good news. I found and reported a bug in the programming software (and worked with B2WR's support to show how to reproduce it, which they confirmed they were also seeing on their end) at the beginning of January, and whoever in east Asia is doing the development work on that...hasn't done anything with it yet. Which doesn't inspire confidence, unfortunately. Hopefully Chirp will end up getting the full functionality.

Bingo, exactly that. I wanted to store them upright so they didn't take up a ton of room, with the batteries 'nested' with the bodies where I could (but not installed), so that they'd not all fall over every time I looked at the radio shelf haha

The reason I have a pile of them is that they're short and flexible and work well enough. If we're out backpacking, I always have a Signal Stick wrapped up in my pack in case I need to get out a bit further. Depending on terrain it won't make a TON of difference, but depending on terrain it might and it weighs nothing, so it comes with. And in testing it's made a decent bit of difference in clarity when working at the edge of a handheld's performance.

Why?

There's no rule against using names on GMRS. So long as someone IDs every 15 minutes, use your names, use a nickname. Hell, give each other trucker or Top Gun call signs lol The ONLY thing the FCC requires is that someone talking under that callsign IDs every 15 minutes

that checks out

nope.

I have the 905G, but voice prompts is like the 1st thing I turned off on it, so I don't actually remember if it does or doesn't announce channels

Yup, that's what we do when out and about.

It's not quite that simple. You can still get stepped on with tones. And you could end up interfering with other communication that you can't hear.

It's not just some overlap. The simplex channels are *the same* frequencies. And 8 of the simplex channels are repeater outputs. So, yeah it can get a bit messy when little Timmy is using his $20 FRS radio to make animal noises at his little sister, the road crew down the road doing traffic management, and people talking on repeaters are potentially on the same frequency.

Nice! I made something similar for the 905G a little while back.

That was the biggest driver of this project for me, honestly. The batteries were friggin impossible to stack neatly without coming down like the end of a Jenga game every couple hours haha I'm really happy with how I was able to 'nest' the radio bodies & batteries for the TD-H3. Unfortunately that wasn't really a viable option for the KG-905Gs because the belt clip is on the body of the radio. In practice, I like that mounting of the belt clip better than it being on the battery, but for storage, it's fractionally more difficult.

Some folks are as predictable as the sunrise

Spent a little time last night making a better solution looking for a problem

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I got sick of all my radios and batteries falling over every time someone sneezed nearby, so I did some light CAD work and 3D printing this afternoon. I think I might re-do this one to have antenna storage on board as well...

Agreed. Could definitely be a battery monitoring system that shuts things down before it gets too low if it's a newer car, or it could be a battery on the way out.

I bite down on the radio to press the button with my teeth. Gets my mouth NIIIICE and close to the mic.

Update: I did not succeed

Or a car stereo installed properly...