After passing my technician test I decided it was time to purchase a mobile radio and put it in my vehicle, after looking around and figuring out a budget I thought the Kenwood TM-V71A would be a really good fit. So far I am really happy with it and have it installed in my car. The only remaining at the time of this post is to make a bracket to hold the head unit.

I am also thinking that about adding a TNC into the Raspberry Pi that I have running in my car and have it act as a APRS digipeater.