What have done towards your prep?

[NorthernRaider]

My AAA battery casing for the UV-5R FINALLY arrived yesterday (ordered in November!!). Handy little thing. I now have the normal 1600mah battery, a 3200mah battery and the AAA casing as power sources.

AAA adaptor for a UV 5 R or RC? or RC + ??
If for an RC where did you get it from or are you stocking them. Both AL from Scotland and myself are both on the lookout for them so we can convert ours into dry cell AA or AAA powered radios.
NR

[BeardyMan]

[David075]

done very little towards prep having a break apart from getting some powerpax battery holders to stop the batterys rattling about all over the place and getin lost.

[NorthernRaider]

[BeardyMan]

[NorthernRaider]

Nup didnt work, never mind Thanks for trying TBH the more effort I put into the issue of two way radios the more dispondant I get, There just no simple easy way to get a decent system set up in the UK.

[BeardyMan]

Nup didnt work, never mind Thanks for trying TBH the more effort I put into the issue of two way radios the more dispondant I get, There just no simple easy way to get a decent system set up in the UK.

I got our system set up in no time. Car based CB radio and 3 UV-5Rs all with the same image programmed.

Job done.

[NorthernRaider]

Nup didnt work, never mind Thanks for trying TBH the more effort I put into the issue of two way radios the more dispondant I get, There just no simple easy way to get a decent system set up in the UK.

I got our system set up in no time. Car based CB radio and 3 UV-5Rs all with the same image programmed.

Job done.

You have more luck and patience than me TBH I bought a UV5RC then got AL to strip out all the crap leaving it as a PMR 446 only unit, then I find there are dozens of different ancillary antenna for them but cannot find a consensus on which is the best, huge variation in opinions on multiple forums, then I read of counterfeit antennas being sold that look identical but do damage to your hand set. Then I find the only place I can get dry cell battery adaptors for the UV5 have to come from Hong Kong, but cannot work out simply and conveniently if they fit the model I have. I dont flourish in that sort of confusion its not condusive to simple basic prepping.

I just want a simple out the box radio that does what I want it to do, the nearest I got was the UV5RC and the Intek Mt5050 but the intek is very expensive and the antenna cannot be simply swapped out , and as I wrote about above the UV5RC is just a nightmare to set up a simple complete system ( Reprogramming or even programming, sourcing battery adaptors, finding better antenna etc etc).

I'll just keep looking there are so many new radios coming out I'll get what I want eventually, BTW I hope your CB set up is more succesful than my efforts all i got was music being blasted out on multiple channels, some tossers swearing continiously and a limited range.

BTW when are you going to start stocking radios ?

[BeardyMan]

[NorthernRaider]

On either CT or one of the other Radio forums some of the chaps were warning about counterfeit Nagoya antenna that were very similar to the real thing, but were poor copies that could damage your handset so please be careful. I look forward to seeing your business expand.