steves08gxp
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- May 26, 2020
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Yes, they are the same. Rugged's blue handhelds are three times the price for a crappy blue housing (or white on mobiles).
PCI is a Kenwood dealer, so that TK-790H would be a good tested used with good accessories unit, aligned and sold with some sort of guarantee.
The eBay unit is untested, unproven, and most likely far out of alignment. There's a reason the prices are so different--they aren't the same "setup". Not to mention these radios were $1239 for just the deck, no head or cables or anything else when they were new (2018 price pages).
To tell the truth i wish i would have done extra research instead of making an impulse buy. These radios are way over powered for what we need them for, the price was good if they work out of the box. But i listened to my FIL and we bought the highest wattage for what we wanted to spend... which in hindsight was dumb. It sounded good when we were drinking beer though. (the root of the problem lol)
I hope i can get them dialed in and workign well without to much drama. Like i said earlier i'm pretty mechanical and technically inclined, so i am sure i can get it figured out just need to do research and ask questions.