Yes, all tickets boo and while you can't really say it's purring along, it shouts at 3000rpm without the sound deadening covers, but now continues to make noise.
Have a look at the Oukitel RT1 over on Amazon, I know several people on here use one and I have for about a year now. It has really good battery life and the screen is as good as most, also it's IP68
It's a Mitsubishi L3, basically a sound engine but getting on in years and wasn't used much by the previous owner.
I'm a realist and as long as it doesn't do anything horrendous to itself I'll do my best to keep it running.
I bullied it into life a while ago after it suffered a cooling issue, then a few months later it ceased to function again, now got it running again (sticking stop solenoid).
Don't think I'll put the casing on for a while in case it ceases to function...
again.
No need to get nasty.... 😄
Still involved with Motorsport, it's like hotel California....
Sounds like you're like Mr Meriweather in Little Big Man.
Jack Crabbe:
Meriweather was one of the smartest men I ever knowed,
but he tended to lose parts of himself.
Glad to hear you're feeling a little better, my better half has had a drain in her gallbladder since October, waiting to have the operation to have the gallbladder removed....
I actually moved the working 240 speaker up onto the Flybridge so I had two working radios up there and can listen to various channels simultaneously.
I can hear the lower helm radio from the handset at low speeds ( which I would be doing if helming from there) backed up with a handheld radio...
Working speakers are very hard to find and nobody repairs them, I had the same arrangement as you, one inside and one on the flybridge. The easiest way by far is to fit a stand alone radio, I went for a Standard Horizon GX1400 GPSE, it has the benefit of a built in GPS, nmea output and cables...