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some radio hams have been discussing the effectiveness of the bluetooth extension microphone with the id-5100 dstar transceiver on the id-5100 facebook page. i thought i would share what works for me. the small speaker cost £8 from maplin electronics in the uk. the microphone used is the built-in electrec microphone - where both work so, how to connect the speaker? the icom bluetooth unit has a 3.5mm socket, for an external speaker, at the opposite end from the usb charging socket. i use an audio extension cable (stereo 3.5mm at both ends) which connects the speaker with the extension socket. it is an the speaker itself is rechargeable, although i plug it into the nearby 12v socket when i want to use it, and is not, of course, bluetooth. i hope to be experimenting with this clever little unit in the coming days, once the leads are made up. in my radio shack i use an icom v200t pmr (private mobile radio) rig, putting out around 30w, for my 70mhz or 4m radio activity. i have a professionally manufactured jaybeam folded dipole above the roof line as an aerial. it is particularly good as it comes complete with a balun and is very well manufactured. i think i purchased the aerial in 1990 - and it has served me well ever since. i have other pmr rigs in the cupboard - as i used to be very active and enjoyed converting many of them to the am*teur bands. i started using the 4m band in 1989 using a crystal controlled telefunken radio which i converted from a german fire engine - as they were moving away from crystals and on to vfos (variable frequency oscillators). it has, however, been about 4 years since i have had a 4m transceiver, or 'rig', in the car and, as the band seems to be getting more popular in this part of the uk once again, i thought it was time to put that right! of course, the one 4m remote-head rig i already owned was limited to 20w and had an annoying 90 second time-out timer, which i could not reprogram, so i wanted to use something with a bit more power out! i still have my pye 4m amplifier but i wanted to cut down on space and