Gear Loadout is Finished

**Outlander Systems** · 08-30-16, 17:10

Don't let the "A" word scare you, bro.

Compared to everything Yaecomwood I've owned this thing spanks it.

Short of moving up to a Motorola XTS-5000, APX, or picking up a Hytera/Tait/Simoco, or cutting a check for $6,000 to Harris, this thing wins.

https://shop.jkarmy.com/tri-prc148-u...rc-148-bk.html

**jpmuscle** · 08-30-16, 17:15

Really. Interesting.

This beats having to send my 6 pin liberator 2s in to have converted.

**Outlander Systems** · 08-30-16, 17:17

Bro, most ham-radio gear I've owned/had/used is built for the rugged environment of your recliner.

Not this thing...

**Eurodriver** · 08-30-16, 17:49

Yeah I've legit submerged the entire radio and the PTT still functioned through the peltors. I've also gotten a solid month of battery life - and reached a repeater 25 miles away through the most densely populated county in the third most populous state. And reached my buddy's mobile 8 miles away.

The A word scared me too, but I bit the bullet and I'm glad I did. I'm for serious - it ****ing works.

Doc thanks for the tip. I am with you. The reason it's in the back right now is because I don't yet have the cable to run the antenna separate from the radio and didn't want it obstructing my LOS even though OS has shown plenty of face shooters that do it that way

**Outlander Systems** · 08-30-16, 17:58

Clarification: I am a Comms-dork.

All advisement of gear placement, and face-shooting is brought to you by GTF425.

Dude is as hard as woodpecker lips, and, at least as I understand it, once kicked a grizzly square in the sacks just to laugh at it.

Originally Posted by Eurodriver

Yeah I've legit submerged the entire radio and the PTT still functioned through the peltors. I've also gotten a solid month of battery life - and reached a repeater 25 miles away through the most densely populated county in the third most populous state. And reached my buddy's mobile 8 miles away.

The A word scared me too, but I bit the bullet and I'm glad I did. I'm for serious - it ****ing works.

Doc thanks for the tip. I am with you. The reason it's in the back right now is because I don't yet have the cable to run the antenna separate from the radio and didn't want it obstructing my LOS even though OS has shown plenty of face shooters that do it that way

**Outlander Systems** · 08-30-16, 18:12

Example of antenna at rear of PC, with pigtail (cable) running from antenna to radio pouch.

Contrary to popular opinion, the human body CAN block radio waves (you can use your body as a makeshift/field-expedient Yagi antenna if in a pinch).

If you're running steel plates, and still want omnidirectional signal propagation, you definitely want to remote/high-mount that bitch.