I know most of you all get on here and talk about hf radios, and antennas. well I have got fed up with cheap ht's ,I have had about every brand of ham ht none from the most expensive to the cheapest seam to last more than a couple of years. so my next step was to convert some old bendix king radios to the ham bands. turns out not all lph radios will convert but the eph family will. I bought 4 for 150.00 picked up broad band antennas and some 3800 amp hour li battery's, which will last about 3 dys under normal use. these radios are field programmable and have a $hit load of accessories to include mobile docking stations allowing the ht to convert to a mobile radio. when bk changed batteries they did it right. like Winchester with the 284. the charging protection circuit is in the battery pack so you don't have to buy new chargers. the radios are field programmable and alpha numeric programmable allowing one to program from a laptop or the key pad they are also cloneable from the master radio. these radios are highly respected by wild land fire crews for a reason and I expect I wont have to buy another ht for a while