While attending the Ft. Wayne Hamfest, I happened by the BridgeComm booth. I’ve been a BridgeComm customer for quite some time now, owning both a c-Bridge and a BCR-40U 70cm Repeater. I’m here to tell you that I cannot think of a single vendor anywhere that has better customer service than the folks at BridgeComm. For ~6 months after I purchased the repeater, I’d get an email once a month just checking in to see how things were going. Who does that these days???? Ron @ BridgeComm does!
I’ve been a fan of 220Mhz for a long time now. I’ve owned various 1.25M radios over the years. There are plenty of imports out there offering cheap radios, but I challenge you to pop off the battery and look for a legit FCC tag. Most of them will not have it. However, you will find one on the BCH-220.
I purchased the radio with the programming software, but decided to fiddle around without the software and as of this post, I have yet to install it. I’ve been able to do everything I needed to do from the keypad. There are few learning curves, but those are easily overcome.
So far, I’m liking the HT and if I were to pick a 220MHz carry HT, the BCH-220 would be it, hands down.
