Great news! I'll cross my fingers for weather bands. Like a lot of boats, mine already has a VHF set with built in weather bands, but I would really like having this in my car -- nice having NOAA weather on tap when deciding whether to drive home over the Cascades or whatever.

The joystick option is *really* intruguing. The VHF unit on my boat allows the addition of an optional "RAM Mic" microphone with an LCD display and control buttons -- allows you to operate all radio functions from the cockpit (or wherever you install it). The joystick could allow the same. Now if I can figure a way to get a remote LCD display to duplicate the Empeg display below decks, mate it to the Sony, then waterproof the whole things...that would be incredibly sweet.

Jim