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You can always get them from McMaster but in these sizes you have to buy 50 or 100. https://www.mcmaster.com/products/screws/thread-size~m2/length~16-mm/drive-style~phillips/?s=2mm+screws Have you tried your local hardware store, I'm quite sure they'd have them.

I'm not sure why, but cruise lines seem to go out of their way to block certain things. It's their world and laws don't really apply, they can do whatever they want. I recently took the Queen Mary 2 from New York to Southhampton UK, and was appalled to see what they were doing with the internet. If using "normal" internet things like google, Youboob, FB, Insta, tik, it works great, super fast (the boats main connection out is using Starlink). Anything else is choked off to about ISDN (1Mb) speeds but still somewhat functional. So if using your own email servers and not googles or outlook/microsofts, downloading email with attachments, is a minutes long experience. Commercial VPN's like Nord are all blocked, even their websites. I connect via my own private VPN back to my office and the std VPN ports are blocked. NP, as the IT person, I logged to the web admin interface at my office and changed my ports there and on my devices client. That worked for 2 days. After that it was blocked. I changed the ports again, after a few hours, blocked. I changed the connection type from IPSec to SSL VPN which uses normal web ports 443 to negotiate and that worked for another 2 days or so. After that they simply blocked my office IP address, not just for my device/login, for anyone on the boat and probably every Carnival boat (the boats parent owner/operator). I checked with my evening table mates (in my Tuxedo of course, it is the Queen Mary) nobody could even reach my website. So they have a short whitelist of sites that get normal speeds, a blacklist, and the vast majority of the internet is a greylist that gets choked off speeds. I seemed to have jumped from grey to black by simply using my private VPN tunnel to my office. Yep, your in their world.

I assume "nearest" means "nearest to you?" ... If so, who sold you this radio programmed to the 50 nearest to you HAM repeaters, praytell? Did you ask for it to come that way?

These are all made in "pandaland". Motorola doesn't even make a part 95E (GMRS) radio, only FRS radios, or business, and their FRS radios (and alot of their business radios) are China. So are Cobra's that I've seen and all the midlands.

Uh....can you give an example of a part 95E radio that is not a "pandaland" radio?

I've never heard the likes of such behavior. No ID. Well. How uncivilized. I bet they use DCS tones too. What has this world come to?!?!?!?!

In most cases I would agree. There are cases where it definitely helps however and I have tested this personally with many different radios. The case I'm talking about is heavy rolling forest, which just happens to be where I live and also where I hunt, hike, camp....I'm not talking a few trees sprinkled around some suburban homes, or a line of trees flanked by fields/open areas, or a lightly forested park, forest, real dense ~70' canopy height forest, many square miles of it. . All the 3-4w radios, even some Kenwood and Yeasu, Btech, baeofang, you name it..., won't do more than 1/2-3/4mi mabey 1mi if your lucky in this condition on 70cm/GMRS/UHF even with a 771G on them. . While the 5.5w 935g or 5w 905G, does~ 1.5mi with perfect clarity, a little more with a 771G, or with stock antenna with some light static. An 10W retivus RT29 (real output on GMRS 16 was 7.2w) did the 1.5mi or a little more, but it's audio quality even when only 100 yards away in open field sucked so bad I didn't know how to qualify it. You've said this many times in here and on your videos, I doubt I'll change your mind, you kinda half acknowledged it however, as I recall in one older video I remember the words something like "may help with ....penetration....penetration" accompanied by a twisting forearm thru hand gesture, so you thought it may help at one point. My real world experience tells me certain what most may consider to be edge cases, it indeed helps. In most cases in most areas, yes, it doesn't matter much.

The 905G is not CHIRP capable although the wouxun software works fine, but if you plan on getting more radios and wish to copy paste between, the CHIRP is your friend there. The 805 is CHIRP capable. .The cable you want is readily available almost anywhere, Amazon or buytwowayradios.com those will work with the 935,905,805 or almost any other radio or radio brand with a std k1 connector. I would suggest buying not from Amazon as Amazon is rife with crappy knockoffs of this type of equipment that uses perhaps questionable driver or just plain won't work. 805 is IP55, 905 is IP66, 935's are IP66. 55 means dust protected and can resist water jets. 66 means dust tite and can resist powerful water jets. I have a yeseau that is IP55 and I've dropped it in a stream, it was not affected. I've also had a 935 fall off my sxs in my back 40 and lay in a puddle for a month, been run over a few times before I found it, it was not affected at all. So anything IP55 or above would be just fine for heavy outdoor use in snow, rain.

No experience with that radio. That is a HAM radio that appears to be capable of transmitting on GMRS (otherwise may be known as a SHTF radio). It has a boatload of features that cater to HAM's and are not readily understandable on how to use/configure or even what they are for novice radio users. To transmit on GMRS you would have to manually program all the regular GMRS channels/frequencies. (of course adhering to power limits etc for those channels, if you care about conforming to rules). All the GMRS rules/frequencies are baked in on a true GMRS radio. It is also not CHIRP capable which was one of your listed requirements. (Vero N76=Radioddity GA-5WB also not CHIRP capable) More is needed to recommend anything, but just throwing out Mabey a Wouxun KG-805G ? It's a good true GMRS radio, very easy to use. And mid-price range..CHIRP capable. I prefer the 905G as it has a bit better IP rating but it is not CHIRP capable.

Well, all depends on what YOU want in a radio. I take it this is a handheld given your previous '2 pack' purchase, as mobiles/bases are not usually sold in 2-packs. Waterproof/ruggedness? May be useful for hiking. Complex or simple interface? Lots of buttons or just simple channel display? Lots-o-buttons lets you program repeaters on the fly in the field. Simple is well...simple. Other listening bands like HAM/MARINE/MURS etc? SHTF capability/unlock (Tx on bands outside GMRS like HAM/MARINE/MURS etc)? GPS capable? Bluetooth/phone pairing capable? FM Radio capable? NOAA alerts NOAA weather channels USB C Chargable as opposed to cradle only charging emergency light? ...etc..etc..etc.... and the list goes on But I second @SteveShannon 's mention of watching some reviews, notarubicon on youtube ( @OffRoaderX here ) has reviewed every GMRS among a few other radios out there.

One can place a budget on radio equipment?

I personally have experienced this "incompatibility" if you can call it that. They were with Midland GMRS GXT740 radios, probably 2012ish manufactured. While they communicated with the other GMRS radios in our group, the audio sounded...bad...low and more background noise....on both TX and RX when communicating with any other branded GMRS radios (meaning I sounded bad to others using non-midland radios and they sounded bad to me on my Midland) Midland to Midland was fine. Yes, they are now old and they still sound bad when comm'ing with my Wouxuns or Kenwood

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You should have used their rubber ducks for target practice.

Most people with GMRS radios have no clue they even need a license as most GMRS radios only mention it, if they mention it at all, in a footnote in the user manual which 99% of people just roundfile along with the packaging. I know people with business radios that don't know they need a license. They just bought a couple of radios off amazon with no idea what they were. They looked simple no display or keypad, just 8 channels. Granted they operate a cabin resort in the middle of nowhere so nobody is going to care.