"Guy Acheson" wrote in message
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I have heard pilots expressing their enthusiasm for
2 meter shortwave radios. (ie. clear channels, repeaters
provide extended range, ability to make telephone calls)
I would like to hear comments on specific models so
Santa can make a certain little boy happy.

Does that "little boy" have an amateur radio license? It is the
requirement for licensing (which requires passing a rather stiff written
test) that pretty well keeps two meter radios out of glider cockpits. I
have been a licensed amateur radio operator far longer than I have been a
glider pilot and I have never even considered taking a 2-meter radio flying
with me. Why would I want to carry yet another radio?

Vaughn (WB4UHB)