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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm here with Ryan at Armelock Huntsville Hamfest twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four and we're gonna tell us So this guy
Speaker 2: was at the Houston Hamfest in Texas last When was
Speaker 2: that March? Yeah, Yeah, Houston Hamfvest, Yeah, Rosenberg Hanfest and March.
Speaker 2: So saw the stuff there for the first time, although
Speaker 2: I've had some for a lot longer that.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna walk through these today. Thanks for the time.
Speaker 3: Sure, no problems. So for any of those that haven't
Speaker 3: seen the product before, we design, manufacture, and sell protective
Speaker 3: cages for your radios. And we grab a small on
Speaker 3: the outs here to show for the camera. Sure, this
Speaker 3: is the basis of the product, is protective protective rails
Speaker 3: for your radios. Not just the rails on the side,
Speaker 3: but it also goes across the top and across the bottom.
Speaker 3: It stands past the front to protect your knobs, but
Speaker 3: we don't break just knobs off. We also like to
Speaker 3: waller out our connectors on the back and pinch our coacts.
Speaker 3: So if you take this radio and set it down
Speaker 3: on your console and your floor, if you didn't have
Speaker 3: the cage, you would be damaging your product or your connectors.
Speaker 3: The original intent of the product was down inside of backpack.
Speaker 3: Now you go down inside of backpack and only show
Speaker 3: the newer one. We'll just jump ahead a little bit,
Speaker 3: the seven o five down inside your backpack. You've got
Speaker 3: an air gap around the radio, so it helps keep
Speaker 3: it cool because your electronics don't like heat. But you
Speaker 3: also if you'd relocate your RF connectors and now you
Speaker 3: don't have to take your radio out to do your activation,
Speaker 3: just screw your coacts to it and off the races.
Speaker 3: Some guys in these smaller radios like to run little
Speaker 3: whip antennas and in place of their hand top and
Speaker 3: say for the for example, like the eight seventeen of
Speaker 3: the eight to eighteen as the connector on the face
Speaker 3: plate well, I can tell you from experience that if
Speaker 3: you run that in your in your backpack and you
Speaker 3: hit a couple of tree limbs with your antenna, you're
Speaker 3: gonna start to damage. That faceplate in your radio is
Speaker 3: not gonna be very happy. You can relocate that onto
Speaker 3: the cage and you if you solve that problem. But
Speaker 3: with the seven oh five, with our package for this,
Speaker 3: if for the guy not carrying in his backpack, it
Speaker 3: just folds right over with our battery pack and now
Speaker 3: you can prop it up and you can actually see
Speaker 3: the screen. You don't have to prop it up with
Speaker 3: a bag of chips.
Speaker 2: Or whatever.
Speaker 3: You have smartphone yeah, yeah, your smartphone, yeah, or have
Speaker 3: to continually bend be bending over because the sunlight is
Speaker 3: washing out your screen.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: This is a really cool setup. This is one of
Speaker 3: my favorite ones right here. But something that interests us
Speaker 3: that was surprising to us is the larger rent frame radios.
Speaker 3: We make him for the nine nine and the seventy
Speaker 3: three hundred, and this is one of my favorite. But
Speaker 3: what we found with from our customers is that if
Speaker 3: you ruggedize your radio, you're more likely to get out
Speaker 3: and be active because you point you're more confident that
Speaker 3: you're not going to break your stuff. So the larger
Speaker 3: frame radios are one hundred and ninety five dollars, which
Speaker 3: is a lot of money, and we can appreciate that.
Speaker 3: But what's a broken multifunction knob on your radio work
Speaker 3: to you on an activation? Anything else?
Speaker 2: We do?
Speaker 3: We relo what I'm talking about, relocating your peripherals, not
Speaker 3: just your RF mount, but all of them. This is
Speaker 3: just showcasing the different ones. You can do the USB,
Speaker 3: your digital input, or your key or external speaker, and
Speaker 3: those will fit on any of the radios. The notches
Speaker 3: on the cages are all meant for the M lock
Speaker 3: T nut type screws.
Speaker 1: Now you had mentioned about switching from B and C
Speaker 1: to TNC.
Speaker 3: We did. We switched to T and C and we'll
Speaker 3: check this off and I'll explain why. It's a more robust,
Speaker 3: it's more rugged of a connector, it's a little more
Speaker 3: water resistant, and being in the field, being camping, we
Speaker 3: thought that was an overall good choice. We're not trying
Speaker 3: to force people to go to TNC, and we're very
Speaker 3: well aware that it's not very common. So when you
Speaker 3: relocate with our package, we include a TNC to B
Speaker 3: and C adapter. Okay, that's obviously much more common, but
Speaker 3: we like to recommend to people, especially on the smaller ones,
Speaker 3: and if you're running in a man pack to get
Speaker 3: your antenna, get it with a TNC on it.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, man, Well, hey, I'm really glad, really
Speaker 2: glad that you guys are starting to come to these shows.
Speaker 1: This is the third show up. So you guys were
Speaker 1: at Dayton, No, we were not, no United Dale. Were
Speaker 1: you at Belton? You were at Belton?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Belton and Houston, both in Texas. Okay, so yeah,
Speaker 2: that's where they were before.
Speaker 1: But great to have you here. Hope you have a
Speaker 1: good show. Thanks for your time today.
Speaker 3: Thanks sure, man,