AM CB

hey Gas

Think you will find most people use UHF not, you might find a rare person running one, but not many. We swapped over to UHF about 4 years ago, still have the AM unit sitting at home.

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Hi Gas,

I started out with an AM about 6 years ago. Only heard chat on it a few times (other than me and mates using it while 4x4ing).

They are still handy if your mates have them for the normal convoy chat, but have mostly been superceded by the clarity of UHF.

UHF has the added bonus of chatting to trucks etc etc.

AM seems to have gone the way of cassette tapes, LP's and soon to be CD's. They still work..people just dont use them.

Rev

Truckies used to use ch8. As said above not many use it anymore but if they did I would suspect it would still be on ch8.

Cheers, Trevor.

HF radio propagation conditions are terrible at the moment and I doubt if you would receive much skip on 27MHz - it's will be some months before they improve much. This is a normal event caused by the 11 year sunspot cycle.

Mike Harding

Yah, I gave my AM 40 ch set away at a garage sale backin Feb...had been sitting in the shed gathering dust for half a dozen years.

You need Side band to recieve skip Ch 35 lower I think

Been discussed a fair bit here over the years- IMO, seems that plain 27meg worth little - certainly not worth buying one - they run at 4-5 watts - the side band capable models (SSB) are worth something, in that they run on 12watts when in that mode and can have a very long reach. There are plenty of users inthe various states, jabbering away on and off during the day (CH 35- LSB etc). Again, not worth buying but maybe worth hanging onto - I have - mine is in good nick and stays in the car as a backup to the long range HF. UHF is of course great - everyone uses them. More to the point, what are your comms needs ?