On Monday, October 5, 2009 at 9:59:31 AM UTC-5, Tony wrote:
Is anyone out there using these radios? Thanks to limited archive
searchability all I was able to find was a post a while back from Tim
Mara saying that he had sold about 50 of them. I'm curious what the
real world power drain is on them from a 12V sealed lead acid battery.
Spec is a bit high at 300 mA for standby. But they sure are
cheap...any reports?

Tony Condon

Hey Tony,
Our club put one in a 2-33 and another in a 1-26 several years ago, they work well, we switch out sla 7AH single batteries every other day or so. Keeping the unused battery on trickle charge.
IMHO good value and much better than a hand held.
Transmission quality goes into the toilet when the battery gets low.

With the relative glut of Euro radios available, do you want new?
I've bought a couple of Dittle fsg-2t from "Ross" and couldn't be happier with them. But make sure any dittles have the mods done!
Good LIft,
Scott