 This is Shepard Humphries, and I would like to talk to you about speaking into a radio clearly. People frequently have a problem with this, and I often, when someone's communicating with me when I'm working in the pits, we're doing long-range shooting, I can't hear what the people are saying, and that's frustrating. I spent ten years as a cop using a radio all the time. There's some mistakes you make that we can fix. So here's how we're gonna fix it. First big thing is holding the mic right here some distance from your face, at least four or five inches. If you have it right over here, it's gonna sound really muffled, and nobody's gonna be able to understand what you're saying. So take it out just a little bit. About this far is fine. I'm even okay with angling it a little bit. So if I was gonna talk into it, I would hold it out about this far, angled away from me, and the next big thing, only two things that you really have to remember each time, press the button, wait about one second, and then start speaking in a normal voice, normal volume, clearly, and enunciating your words properly. If you do those two things, holding the mic out from your face, and speaking slowly and clearly, after depressing the mic and leaving it depressed, then you're gonna be just fine. After you finish your transmission, keep the mic pressed for another half second, then let go. Doing those things will make you an expert speaking on the radio, the two-way radio anyway. This is Shepherd Humphries. Hope that helps.