If you're not adverse to a 3 week shipping time and taking a risk on Chinese manufacturing, I have found that there are some super cheap accessories on banggood.com for Baofengs. Antennas, adapters, headsets, batteries, etc. I've ordered from them dozens of times (for all kinds of electronics, but at least a dozen Baofeng accessories) and everything has always arrived and works. Some stuff even ships for the States and arrives in a few days (but you might pay a little more). Their $5 magmount dual-band antenna is great for a quick mobile deployment (you think the magnet isn't going to be strong enough but so far it's held up at 70mph for me).

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Ron via chirp_users <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
It's not that the accessories are so much, just that the radio is so inexpensive. Since most of the radios used to cost way more than the UV5, a $50 headset was relatively cheap. The Bluetooth adapter I use is almost $200 by the time I buy the radio cable, and that doesn't include the actual headset.


This is not an inexpensive hobby, but adapting the radios to motorcycle use is even more expensive.

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