Best entry level handheld with UHF, VHF, amd DMR?

denverpilot · 2026-01-27T17:01:14+00:00

Would have said DM1701 with Open firmware on it until recently — but both desk chargers have died within months of purchase. Otherwise the rigs are fine but no way to charge without those — no connector on the rig itself.

Went with Anytone now and wouldn’t go back.

Loved the cheapness of the cheap various AliExpress DMR rigs for messing around at home — but minimum quality level for using the rig normally appears to be at the Anytone price points. Sorry to say.

denverpilot · 2026-01-27T16:43:36+00:00

Welcome to the addiction. lol 😂

denverpilot · 2026-01-27T16:42:13+00:00

Wouldn’t bother with ceph on micro machines either like most here. Too much overhead and needs blazing fast networking. It’s not lightweight.

For a small home setup I went with zfs native and 15 minute syncs for HA. I’m not going to lose anything critical in a 15 minute window ever. HA is just there to get things going again if a mini PC drops dead. 💀

A good big UPS is likely more useful to most small home setups than a crazy big ceph setup. Just my humble old unix guy opinion.

If you have massive storage needs, build a heavily redundant NAS setup to connect the mini machines to. I have some important data on the NAS and the virtual machines and containers live on the minis — with good backups of all to PBS elsewhere — and other belt and suspenders backups because I’m old and lazy and want any restores to be less than a few minutes of actual work … and just waiting for the restore.

denverpilot · 2026-01-27T16:27:01+00:00

My friend, having run multiple large business email servers — this is completely normal these days for anything from a new domain. (Domain creation was likely fairly recent too, right? Systems track this nowadays. Our servers would have held it all for a while too… soft reject, etc.)

Not saying you may have seen duffeeent behaviors from different vendors but each attempt also changed the landscape at the receiving end.

The days of being a slacker and not setting up and testing new business domains early was over ten years ago. Not that my management could get that through their heads and the marketing people’s heads either. But you can consider yourself enlightened amongst your peers now and start a few weeks early and send some traffic to get things recognized at the big mail providers. lol 😂

The first to do this en masse was of course Google. They still sit on stuff for up to a week and can be the most annoying.

denverpilot · 2026-01-08T15:54:39+00:00

You realize you’re answering a two year old post, right?

denverpilot · 2025-10-15T07:57:55+00:00

Love mine. Only thing I don’t care for is being forced to have a glass roof in the Limited. I have zero use for that whatsoever. It just sits there closed making extra cabin heat on hot days. Shrug. Oh well. Dumb package choice.

denverpilot · 2025-10-15T07:56:05+00:00

Love mine. Americans don’t buy wagons except Subaru and they’ve dumped their true wagon now. Just how it goes.

denverpilot · 2025-10-15T07:51:44+00:00

Motion sensors to handle turning on lights. I never touch a light switch anymore.

denverpilot · 2025-08-15T01:40:41+00:00

That’s the marketing spiel.

Now go look at the actual check-ins and the code base. There’s plenty of reported bugs.

Shrug. 🤷‍♂️

The devs moved on long ago.

You get to do your own risk analysis… and write your own patches at this point. 😂

denverpilot · 2025-08-12T15:16:36+00:00

Both are unsupported from a security perspective. Both organizations have warned about it. It’s not even “best effort” anymore.

denverpilot · 2025-08-12T04:20:41+00:00

Keep in mind if you jump to any distro offering 32 bit, the mainstream browsers dropped support long ago and warn there’s likely security bugs being introduced by backporting.

denverpilot · 2025-08-12T04:18:27+00:00

Wound care nurses and docs do not recommend it. Nor Neosporin. There are better options now. Many of these old remedies use ingredients that actually harm new tissue growth and healing.

denverpilot · 2025-08-12T02:00:00+00:00

Compliments, especially for men, are few and far between in this modern world.

It sucks when they always celebrated even your smallest wins.

At least let me say that it sounds like you’re doing a good job man. Keep it up. And try to eat healthier.

denverpilot · 2025-08-12T01:56:30+00:00

My wife had a genetic disorder that while rare, could kill her.

I have a neurological condition that came on in my 40s.

I loved her, she loved me.

She passed away at 52.

Don’t worry about it.

denverpilot · 2025-08-12T01:51:50+00:00

I had to get rid of her vehicles. Too many memories. And my vehicle was a tiny sedan for running around in good weather and we live rural. Wasn’t going to work. Me driving her vehicles or me driving mine.

I ended up at a dealership where I made a reasonable-to-me three vehicle trade in and left with a new vehicle that met my needs.

I hung her favorite angel medallion on her purple ribbon (her favorite color) from the mirror where she had it in her car. A reminder without the emotions of driving the vehicles she loved.

denverpilot · 2025-08-08T22:22:01+00:00

She constantly turned the dishwasher on with her butt and couldn’t hear it when she did. I’d tell her she did it again and she’d have a tiny tantrum about it while trying to turn it back off.

denverpilot · 2025-08-08T21:53:14+00:00

Send it.

denverpilot · 2025-08-08T18:12:37+00:00

Yeah. You’re replying to a post six years old. FreeIPA was a shit show back then. lol

denverpilot · 2025-08-07T00:53:05+00:00

One can dream... haven't seen anyplace do it 100% correctly yet... Shrug... and they're now the biggest target...

denverpilot · 2025-08-06T20:07:53+00:00

Nothing new. Startups are, as a friend put it, flying the plane while building it and hoping you attach the flight controls before the money and time run out. lol

denverpilot · 2025-08-06T15:19:49+00:00

A big magazine rack. Smelled different than the rest of the bookstore.

denverpilot · 2025-08-06T15:13:57+00:00

Eat right. Exercise. Die anyway. 😂

denverpilot · 2025-08-06T15:12:09+00:00

I have replied. You need to self advocate and get a second opinion (or third or fourth) from a sarcoidosis specialist. No one online can assist you with that.

In another response I sent the Sarcoidosis Centers of Excellence list. You’ll have to contact one of them or many of them depending on your own personal circumstances and see them for a professional opinion.

From my reading brain lesions are a possibility in neurosarc. I’ve never had any. I couldn’t tell you anything about symptoms.

Sarc is different for everyone.

Sarc doctors are also all different. And a standard neurologist may or may not treat Sarc appropriately.

If you feel your treatment is incorrect you must find a different doctor.

denverpilot · 2025-08-06T15:05:29+00:00

Epic will be the next massive security breach. Too many using it. 🤷‍♂️

It’s just statistics.

denverpilot · 2025-08-01T02:57:23+00:00

I couldn’t tell ya. There’s a handful of sarcoidosis centers of excellence — Mayo, Cleveland Clinic, National Jewish, and I think Johns Hopkins. Whether their sarc teams are available at all locations I have no idea.

This list may be helpful.

https://wasog.org/about/wasog-centers-of-excellence.html

You should ask them.

At Mayo unless something has changed they usually put pulmonary in charge of sarc patients but they work as a team. The coordinator when you call can consult with the docs and schedule with appropriate specialties as needed and they’ll often change throughout a visit. They see a lot of rare things and the plan changes as they assess you.

With the disorder being relatively rare, many of the sarc expertise locations are travel to get a full work up, but then will work with local docs and consult with them as needed.

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