I agree my friend. One of the reasons this is important to me is...i have had some non-voice faction members tell me how important it is that i constantly have a radio on me. Yet because they don't have voice chat, i would need multiple radios, not just one. That's because as a recruiter i try to stay on the public channel but to work with someone new (who is not yet on voice), i would need a unique channel just for him, and for my non-voice members, a channel for them. Then BAM someone wants to go hunting and i need a 4th radio? Crazy. So 1 radio to rule them all lol.
Okay this idea is shaping up a bit, at least in
my head. Anyone with Science 40% can craft a normal radio with 6 junk and a workbench.
Radio #2 is an 8-Band Receiver Scanner
Crafting maybe: 1 regular radio + 8 eparts
Radio #3 is an 8-Band TranScanner
Crafting: 1 Radio #2 + 8 regular radios + 2 eparts
Requires: Energy 1

Radio #4 is the 8-Band TranScrambler
Crafting: 1 Radio #3 + 8 eparts
Requires: Energy 2
The idea here is based on Eternauta's post. If you can set up a faction terminal as a "Radio Server", then a Radio #4 device can be synchronized with that terminal to enable encryption on whichever channels selected (done at terminal). Flick a dip switch on the radio for that channel and now you talk in scramble/descramble mode on that channel. Only those people with similar syncing would be able to understand your transmissions when scrambled, and only if they have the same channel on scramble/descramble mode.
Yeah this leads to a bunch of what-ifs.