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Hi Binnie,

Thanks for this. Its really useful to have such extensive testing feedback from real life usage by non radio sympathetic operators.

Re the failed antennas, Did the radios survive the failure or did they burn out their Transmit power transistors?

From what you wrote I understand that failures were reported to you because of unit's failure to receive, yes?

If correct, that makes for an easy test of antenna integrity by a daily check on reception from a continuous signal source ( Ham repeater or commercial broadcast station)

Please try and identify how many recharges you get out of battery packs before they start to lose significant capacity. This will be very useful information to know.

Thanks again mate.