Originally Posted by Rod1
the replacement of the engine and the modified ignition system to make it usable which costs. I spent well over 100 hours and not insignificant amounts of money trying to suppress the ignition on my Nipper to allow the hand held to work.
I can't argue with that, but it's unlikely to have been the case with the C152 which started this discussion. More likely is that its radio was broken and they couldn't be bothered to fix it. Shouldn't have stopped the pilot from using a hand held, though.