This would be great and if there was enough demand it would surely happen. As it is, the main reason amateur radio hand-helds are so inexpensive is that manufa

This would be great and if there was enough demand it would surely happen. As it is, the main reason amateur radio hand-helds are so inexpensive is that manufacturers can make one batch of boards/radios for commercial, nautical, and amateur use and target the different audiences by putting different firmware and cases on the radios (or in the case of Baofeng and the cheap Chinese radios, just one radio for any use you want -- figure it out of use Chirp to make it do what you want). Too bad 1.25m and 33cm radios are in so much lower demand; while it's not hard to find acceptable quality 1.25m radios for inexpensive prices I haven't seen the Chinese radios show up with transceivers covering 902 - 932 MHz.