BenM2023

Odd thing - many people consider deals/agreements with the US of A risky ventures these days... Can't imagine why.

The T82 extremes are what we use at work... We have 10 of them and, despite being used by generally incompetent users, seem to survive day to day abuse in a high school. We have had them for nearly two years and have no casualties yet. Other schools in the area also use them - with no reported issues.

I know a couple of multi-band, so not specifically pmr, Baofeng users but can't comment on their ruggedness or longevity other than to say I haven't heard bad things.

Another popular brand to look at might be Hytera; possibly a bit out of budget for you. We did look at those, instead of cheaper handsets, but price won in the end.

I am a Motorola fan. Used to use their VHF kit back in the day and it took a lot of abuse.

At work we have their averagely rugged yellow things T82 iirc that work out about €35 each

At home, for the goblins, we have a pair of yellow Motos T72 iirc similarly rugged €60 the pair.

Both models have good range and are easy to set up. Work ones do group programming so you program 1 bung the rest on programming mode and transmit the config. Boom. 10 radios programmed identically in less time than manually doing 2.

They are just about as bullet proof as the cars are self driving. Dunno why anyone might think that they would actually be bullet proof, given Musk's track record...

/s

My wife is an introvert. It took 7 years of very innocent twice a year meeting at camp and someone else shoving us together for us to think about becoming an item. Been married for 8 years now (together for 13). Sometimes these things just happen. Top tip is not to try too hard.

The translators did a heroic job. They even changed the names to make them funnier (Getafix is Panoramix in French). I do wonder what the Corsican's name is in French given that boneywasawarroirwayayix is very English (language and culture) specific.

As a humble brag my Pa knew Anthea Bell's brother - she was doing the English translations.

After a few years there was XPizza tool... Allowing MIT guys to order pizza from their workstation....

Ah that ditty with similar lyrics, by Infected Mushroom, is now running through my head...

Where's the bloody bog?

Yeh I have noticed something similar.

I have to refresh home/local/all when I visit them to get all new posts. Default sort is new for all of them (iirc)

Occasionally there is 1 new one at the top of the feed.

I thought I was dreaming.

Yeh, the oya got smudged/erased on the gold plate.

Vger ... Star Trek the movie called and wants their name back!🤪