I'm aware of those, in fact the A23 is on my wish list.

I'm hoping that somewhere there is something that does a lot of other bands in addition to aviation. Transmitting on frequencies we're allowed to, such as HAM, family band, CB, etc, and receiving on others, such as weather, AM, FM, short wave, and police, so I only have to carry one radio. I know it's contradictory to get good quality and also a lot of frequencies in one unit, and especially one antenna, about as likely as peace in the middle east. But I can hope can't I?

BTW, COM is just COMmunications on 118-132 mhz, VOR is VHF Omni-Range on 101-117 mhz, a radio beacon used for airways since the late 50's. Pretty sucky compared to GPS, but still useful as a backup.