As of last night the last few audiovox radios drew their last breath. We are now down to 5 Motorolas. We are using the Motorola T5720 and T5920. They both offer a 5 mile range and far outreach the Audiovox claim of 7 miles. We can get by with as few as ten radios total. We dont need rechargeables. The motorolas will run of AA batteries which we have thousands of. The Motorola I have I found in a mud puddle, and it works great. I dont want you guys to feel like you have to do this for us. The Government should be taking care of us, but you know how that is. We really appreciate all the support you guys provide. Maybe you could contact Motorola and see what they can do. Before we left the country one soldier contacted Cobra and they donated I think 30 CB radios to us. We put them in our trucks and they help out a lot. We use the Talk Abouts in trucks with no CB, and when we have to get out of the truck for anything. Again, Thanks for everything. Steve
It sounds like AA batteries are no problem for them. I'll buy three pair of Motorolas online, since I doubt I can find the FRS versions easily around here. Then again, maybe Costco might have them.
I know there's the sore subject that they're unsecure. But it looks like their commanders have decided that unsecure CBs and GMRSs still give them a better chance of survival than no radios at all.
I get the uneasy feeling that there's a warehouse in Kuwait with 50,000 radios, but nobody knows they're there. And if they did know, there's no paperwork to authorize their release. I still remember the last scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
I doubt this has made it far up the food chain... the Force Protection Officer, the SigO and the the SigInt guys should be screamin' bloody murder...
we were the OpFor against a MEU... we waxed 'em cuz they were usin' unauthorized handhelds... they thought they were using secure system of passwords and codes, but any moron with a few days, knowledge of the area, and a scanner could've had their playbook down pat... like we did...
a company, against a MEU... we inflicted over 600 casualties... to include shootin' down four helicopters... it was an embarassment that never made any headlines... the after-action report got buried... but the Div CG did find the funds to buy secure handhelds...
*sigh*... how much $ do I need tuh send yuh?...
btw... we need tuh roast AudioVox's chestnuts over an open fire...
That, is entirely possible, my friend...
I've not seen "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" but I do remember going into an armory in Washington D.C., about 1967 and seeing cases and cases of brand new M1A1 rifles still packed in cosomoline and 1909-A303s-bolt action 30cal rifles by the hundreds if not thousands. These were WW2 and prior weapons that had never been uncrated. They are most likely still there.
Government waste and inefficency knows no bounds. That any of our troops have to operate with donated equipment is outrageous.
One other time before when I was outraged over a matter I wrote to every congressman and senator I could think of and got personal replies from only two of them. One was the former Senator Jean Carnahan (D-Mo) and Rep Ray Lahood (R-Ill) The others either replied with a form letter or ignored me completely.
Ray Lahood is the Congressman in my district and for whatever it's worth, he will be hearing from me again.