I occasionally build porta-digis that need to fit in things like ammo cans and can run on a SLA battery and 10-20 W solar power for indefinite periods of time. This means no mobile radios as their rx modes always burn way to much power.
I've used up all my old Yaesu/Vertex hand-held 2m radios. A few years ago I interfaced a Baofeng UV5 to a KPC3+, got that to work but the receive performance was pretty poor (seemed to be receiver distortion). I also got another Baofeng (not the UV5 model, but quite similar) to work with a custom-built PTT/audio interface to a Direwolf instance on an RPi, but again what I was finding was the receiver distortion was pretty significant and receive performance was poor.
Given that there's now several more hand-held radios that are available and a heck of a lot more experience tinkering with them, I was wondering if there is any general consensus on "good-enough" performing hand-held radios for APRS 1200 baud?
Cheers and 73 - Jon N7UV
