uniden 011 aerial

I'm sorry to disagrre with Chopper on the Performance compared to the new ones. You will find that if the radio is in good condition, there will be no difference in performance between the old and the new. The only difference you will find is that you have more features on the new radio's. More scanning functions etc.

You might in fact find that the performance of the older units is better in some respects. UHF CB Radio is only allowed 5 watts output for transmitting. Find me a new unit that has 5 watts output. At least with the older units you could adjust the output to nearly 10 watts. I don't think you can do that with the newer units.

If you want real good performance from a UHF Radio. Get a Commercial radio that you can Program for the UHF CB Channels.
I have a Philips PRM 8030 Remote mount. I can program this radio to do almost anything I want. It's capable of 120 channels. I use the first 48 channels for CB Use and I have another 40 channels programmed to listen to the Police. Makes for a pretty handy Accessory.

too each their own.

talk to some people in the biz and they will agree that the new units, regardless of brand, that use surface mount technology are more reliable and less likely to 'wander' off channel.

I agree with the coments regarding commercial sets though, if you can find one they are a cut above.

bear in mind that it is an offence to tamper with the output of a radio, or to use a higher output radio (some older commercial sets used to put out 25 watts) on the 40 public channels.

When we set up the radio net at work we follwed our local uniden dealers advive and used 3 UH011 and 6 uniden 1 watt handheld (can't remember the designation, built like a brick) these served us very well, until we started to recieve a huge amount of malicious interference from outside units. ( i know that these are public channels, and that a business has no particular claim to any channel).

We decided to change over to a set of radios that would allow us to use CTCSS to prevent the malicious interference being broadcast about the workplace.

We sold off the old units and put in TX3200s and Icom IC40jr (and IC40s for the off site work). The difference in reception and transmission quaility was unmistakeable, the ability to have the GMEs sensitivity 'programmed' by the dealer is a real advantage.

Aerials and power supplys remained constant, the units changed and there was a big diference.

I'm not saying that every one should dump there old units, but that there is now a new class of unit available and that you should compare apples to apples.

Just expressing my opinion and respect others right to do the same..

Chopper