I had thought about installing ham gear in the RV-7 I was building. Decided against it, since I really haven't used the dual bander in my vehicle in years other than to listen to AWOS and the local CTAF. Repeater activity around here is just about nil, and I never did get into APRS.
Now that I'm flying the RV-12, it would just be too much hassle to try to retrofit a rig into the panel. If I ever update the radio and intercom, I may make provisions to patch in a handheld. On longer cross country flights it might be nice to see who's around on simplex frequencies.
For those of you who fly and are hams... here's a poll. And please note that I messed up one of the options. " I'm active airborne, but not flying" should read, "I'm active airborne, but not on the ground". I can't edit the poll.
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