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Read the advice given to the person on the Yaesu forum - for programming software.

Forget about wasting your time with a handheld.

PL connectors have an impedance bump around 300 MHz - not very good for UHF compared to the N Connector.

Not really sure if that is the answer you were looking for,.

As for anything else the...

Just my honest opinion, but don't waste your time with a handheld or RT System's, you will leave disenchanted and disgusted by the performance of either.

HaNdhelds have their place, simple things...

I don't know what country you live in, but if your wife is not licensed,it isn't legal for you to make one way transmissions.

Using a scanner to listen to you, still would be illegal.

it's not...

Might I suggest that you seek the advice of a knowledgeable Elmer in your neighborhood.

My advice would be to go with the mobile radio and base station antenna.

Without knowing where you are...

One of my first Elmer's offered to sell me a K2 - Elecraft transceiver.
15w output, which is just fine for CW ( what you might call Morse Code).

CW - would not require him / her to talk, just...

Most times when you get a question like this, the answer is just to tell them that it can't be done.

Most times questions like this involves people called Preppers, which are not interested in...

Join the ARRL, go online, read what has been written over the years - in the World above 50 megahertz column.

Once you become a member, you will have free access to all of the archived information...

Due to a lack of information, it is difficult, if not impossible to answer your question.

Since there is a definite lack of good Elmers' out there, the best I can do is guess and make assumptions....

A MAG MOUNT IS NOT SUFFICIENT ENOUGH TO WORK AS A TRANSMITTING ANTENNA FOR HF FREQUENCIES.

MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE PEOPLE WILL TELL YOU THAT IT DOESN'T EVEN WORK WELL FOR 10M.

NOR IS THE SHED GOING...

Unless someone was giving away a 450D - I wouldn't buy it.
There is a lot better transceivers to be had - for about the same amount of money.
Ebay has used Kenwood TS 590's for somewhere in the...

Congratulations on deciding to go the mobile route.

A few things that I learned with my experiences with 2m FM radios.

Of all the different brands, the ICOMS were always the hardest to program...