I just ordered another radio. I'm not sure if mine was suffering from the first night of ownership when it got submerged or what, but it seems as though I was cutting in and out a lot. Matthew and I had radios side by side and his would receive, but mine wouldn't, unless I had my hand on the antennae... I bit the bullet and bought a black UV-5R, which should work with all my batteries and antennas. I also bought the 7.5" antennae.

The nice thing about getting a new radio is you can just clone your settings from the old one and you're done. No need to reprogram from scratch.

I had almost nothing to do with that

HAMfest Chattanooga was yesterday. Matthew and I went and checked everything out. I picked up a used 2meter mobile rig for my truck. I bought it off a guy who used to do weather for US 101 for $60 and got a new mag-mount antenna for a few bucks more. Matthew ended up winning the same radio in a silent auction! Now we both have the Icom IC-2100H radios. I started my installation last night and finished it up right before he came over today... My radio wouldn't transmit by the time I had it fully installed. The battery was too dead from having the doors open. Matthew showed up and we put his in his jeep as well. It was so much easier to install his than it was to completely disassemble my dash!

We got a radio check around 5pm and we both received 5-5 (readability-strength) so we are in business! And that was just on "low" power. High power is 50watts!!!

hmmm... I kinda agreed to go play trivia this Thursday...maybe I'll do both!

Tis true. I even took a stab at Extra, but didn't pass.


Russ I mean Tech, when are you going to level up?!?!