Congrats on your ticket! The radio is a TYT TH-9800 quad band, cross band repeater....... lots of capabilities. Please look it up. I'll answer your questions soon, I have a hickory tree to finish splitting and stacking.....smoking wood....more to follow. Thank you everyone for all the compliments. There is a story behind all this. My brain still hurts and there is a few more things to finish. MY adult ADD's kickin in, have to go and screw up this other project before Mr. Murphy finds out I'm making progress on something again. Out!