maybe you could saw it down the middle with only few connections, but not that good.The front always looked like cb equipment on the cze's, I wasn't kean on it, were in agreement over the rf amp been robust, I suppose you could make your own front cover, don't know who'd have a microphone input on the front of a transmiiter, as you don't what it to be like a bug, a high input would cause hum, i've never heard any on these, though I suppose someone will come forward and say how they have front loading xlr micophone connections on their transmitter.