its ok.

They are really expensive though, you don't have to go through all that trouble you could just get a cheap phone and pull the battery when you don't want to be tracked.

The tracphone from walmart I spoke of, has a removable battery. Right now you can go in mask and gloves, fully covered, and get one...no big deal.

Ended up going with the 58 inch mfj 1414 dual band for the mobile 2 meter cheap rig. Picked it up for 38$

https://youtu.be/lx6cm1rNDLM?t=803

I can help with Ham questions

Ham antennas are a legit joke. I bought a comet dual band that was rated at 250W and proceeded to melt it in half while driving and talking on my 100W radio.

I think this sums up most of our coms

@redbeard comets are sposed to be good shit...surpirising. don't they have a warranty?

Everything I own is cheap trash. Why not my comms too? Haha

It’s better than nothing

Is there a way to connect a 2 pin connector to the aux port of my electronic ear muffs and just use a clip on mic?

Something like this but instead of the ear piece it’s an aux plug

Some of the electronic hearing protection will turn off the external microphones when you plug in, so you can't hear ambient anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viY81m9cYgk

Which ones do that?

All the good ones don't.... peltor, sordin, etc.

Oh, you mean electronic earmuffs

Yeah, that's what he was asking about. Some of them do still work

The howard leights will also mount to the ARC rail on a helmet I think

Peltors will as well...

And you can get a set of used peltors for a few hundred, almost not worth trying to janky a setup together.

Pretty big price difference though.

I have to equip two people, so even used that gets super expensive

Just get a lapel mic with in ear and put it under the muffs, bunch of people I know do that.

@Rawhide that’s exactly what I was trying to do. Thanks!!. I have Howard Leight impact sports like in the video and I have rifleman opmod muffs I got off OpticsPlanet. Not sure if it would work well with the opmods but I’ll test them out.

@EDDSkitz I’ll try that out too. I’m going to see which is more comfortable

> Something like this but instead of the ear piece it’s an aux plug
@RooftopKorean
I'm running that thing lol with some sure fire ear plugs that fit the tip

Gunshot blocking electronic earmuffs that double as radio headphones would be mint to have.

@Bogs_Bunny pretty sure that’s a thing

@[MS] Foxtrot795 you're probably right. Not super high priority for me right now since I got some cheap hearing protection that does the job.

Same. I wouldn’t mind having a pair 😂

It exists but I see them for like $600 🙃

My electronic ear muffs cost $30-$40 then I just clip on a mic and plug the aux into them and it works about the same lol

@[CA] SoyBoi that might actually work pretty well lol. Don’t need to wear earmuffs under the helmet just some light plugs lol

“Sonic ear defenders”

$25ish for the plug and mic, a hell of a lot cheaper than some 600 headsets lol I gotta save where I can lol

I have those surefires already, I didn’t think to use them that way. That’s fucking ingenuitive lol

I saw a thread about it (but I had to dig lol)

I meant headphones that plug into a radio, not themselves act as a radio.