On Oct 5, 10:59*am, 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

I bought mine from Tim Mara, am very happy with it. On a single new
fully charged 9AH battery I got 8 hours of powering the radio and CAI
302/303 together. When the battery voltage dropped below 10 volts the
radio just came up with static when there was traffic on the frequency
(I also had a hand-held monitoring), and would not transmit, but right
up until that point it was fine. With two batteries in parallel I
have yet to run out of power, even if I fly two days in a row without
recharging the batteries. With proper mic and antenna the transmit/
receive quality is excellent.

NG