I know this is old, but it really hit home. I agree with the OP sentiment on it being tough to get started. I just bought a radio for my truck to turn it into a mobile repeater, and the giga parts doesn’t even have really much in the way of recommended items to get for that radio. I originally had a midland in a different vehicle, and it came with everything I needed for a mounting solution, and I could get other things if I wanted. My new icom came with no mount, and had very little in the way of showing other things I would need in order to get going. I needed a separate antenna base, antenna, mount, radio face mount, a way to mount those mounts etc. Very frustrating.