I cannot find the answers in the pdf manual and Alinco doesn't seem to have a support site that you can email (in the UK at least). If anyone has this radio I'd be grateful if you could shed some light on the questions below. In mobile radios the FTM 400 offers the same as the FT2DR most hotspots will connect to your home computer as well as IPad/android for mobile use, i am a rather twisted guy I have a hotspot in the headrest out of the way with just a hidden power cable and and cord to plug into phone. with a hotspot and an HT no matter where you live or what's available locally ,using that hotspot will allow you to talk anywhere on the planet using half a watt (your battery will last a week) ,and you can still use what ever repeaters are locally available. Of course by the time you are ready to upgrade both companies may have new models ,but that's the state of the art currently ,keeping in mind that the newer Yaesu and a hotspot with get you into any repeater in the DMR/FUSION universe and the Kenwood the same for Dstar. Kenwood 74A TRI BAND Analog/digital 2/220/70 APRS,DSTAR YAESU FT 2 DR it gives you dual band 2/70 APRS,DMR,FUSION going thru a hotspot it will transcode DMR to Fusion and vice versa without buying a cheap chinese radio or an expensive Motorola/Hytera

this advice has made sense and probably saved me a dumpster full of money, in the future if you invest in a new radio to be able to play Analog as well as digital the king and queen of radios. Here's an important one buy more radio then you plan to use ,buy something that is feature packed ,that way should you get bored at some point and want to explore ,instead of busting out the wallet ,you just go into a different area of the radio and play ,ham radio is all about playing with radios ,so save your money ,buy feature packed. Click to expand.Here's some free advice, when you decide to upgrade your radio ignore anything with bling ,many times the stuff that looks like trash ,is the stuff that works the best.

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