Sam Alexander
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The one that I have on the taps behind me on Bob, I'm running a Cattail antenna with a 90-degree plug for the antenna piece.
It's basically an antenna wrapped in a ruggedized 550 cord shell.
So you can weave it through molly.
You can tie it off to stuff like it's very modular and you don't end up getting a freaking antenna poking you in the underarm constantly or poking you in the back or whatever.
And it's more durable because it's more flexible.
I thought you were going to say something else that starts with an A that's also an anatomical part.
I will say, so people are talking about radios in the chat.
I will say that if you are not a radio person, one, go watch a shit ton of YouTube videos because everybody and their mother makes YouTube videos.
And a lot of foreigners I've noticed like UK, Australia, like
The ones with the accents the women think are sexy, those guys make a crap ton of videos about radios.
We make videos about guns because they can't have guns, so they got to find something else cool to talk about over there.
There's a lot of good information, but I think the UV5R is the best way to start because, again, it's cheap.
It gives you a lot of capability for not very much money, and the learning curve is way lower.
I never opened the manual.
I went straight off of videos.
Programming this thing made programming UV5R look like adding an app from the Google Play Store.
This thing is way more complicated.
It's not insurmountable, but I'm also not that smart.
It's not.
It's just there can be some frustrations, and you got to figure some things out intuitively.