Steve-Maine,
Just an observation: Seems you're being harsh in writing
I asked two other questions on radios with no answers. It looks like your three similar, but incomplete, questions about radios have each elicited one answer, with no followup response/question from you.
You can trust that people on this discussion board are not bashful in responding with personal-experience answers and also opinions and advice.
Good thing KCMongo posted his questions - your clarifications to these questions (in the same thread) might elicit a few responses.
There is also the
The Radio Bench forum in the
The Electrical Bay in this site's discussion boards, but that forum is a little hidden from general view.
Tim