All that makes me very happy to spend the extra bucks to get an internal modem on the base. I am not great at keeping up with multiple pieces of extraneous gear. On a very sad note, I casually leaned my LS+ against a fence post and on the way down, just did clip the cell antenna with the top of the post and sheared it clean off. Very sad day. I was using TCP and was 3200 feet from the base. Turns out in fairly flat ground, through moderate woods, I can still get that kind of range with 1 watt internal UHF. I do have the 35 watt external radio but it wasn't hooked up right then. Now it will be a few weeks without my rover while getting repaired and that is the hard part. There was a thread some time ago going over some of the cool ways to protect the antennae coming out of the side. Somebody had built a chunk with a 3d printer and there was some woodwork. Can anyone point me back to that thread?