There is still hope.  A camera was lost with the pictures that were going to be used for the promised postings below, of course they only exist in that camera.  The plastic earphone jack of the radios is turning out to be too fragile to be a reliable switch between radio-speaker sound or output to amplifier sound so some redesign and possible new parts are afoot there.  The simple out is to not use the speakers at all but then you have half an F.R.O. The goal of finishing it by the end of the year seemed promising a couple of months ago but life is complicated.  Its still a goal: lofty but very present.