whats a good brand UHF to buy

I will stay out of this one....hehehe....As an Electronic Tradie, there really isn't much difference between them.....Don't want to get in another ***** with Doug......Though some things he does say are correct.....And others not IMO.......Each to his own......You will do fine with either. Just make sure you get a good quality aerial to match the particular unit you are going to purchase......

Good Luck

Gone Bush
So you reackon what I hear all over the highways is BS eh well actually i don't give a Rats A#se , if he wants to go and spend over $400 bucks on a radio thats gonna sound like crap to every one that hears it then good luck to him , Why Don't he go and get a Kenwood UHF and be done with it '

I meant to add that the antenna is very important to get right. Look at the GME web site for details.

>and has Selcall so you can call a selected other user
>without anyone else hearing.

Don't think so.

My understanding of a selcall enabled radio is that, on receive, it will only allow signals which correspond to it's selcall ID to pass through to audio, the idea being you don't have to put up with a lot of chatter from people which you have no interest in who are using the same frequency

However a _non_ selcall enabled radio will pass all information on the frequency to which it is tuned so my aged Uniden set to scan will tell me you're saying bad things about me :) Caution is advised.

Indian beef curry is slowly cooking, the chardonnay needs refilling and The Wailin' Jennys are sounding magically melodious in the background - I love Saturday evenings :)

www.thewailinjennys.com/

Mike Harding

Mike,

Curry sounds good, Chardonnay is for shielas and the Wailin'Jenny's is enough to make you want to slit your own throat........Very sad Mike......hehehehe...Very TIC.....

Sod off you little git :)

Now that's not nice.......hehehe

The chardonnay... I can understand BUT... The Wailin' Jennys!!! I'm going to marry all three of them! :)

PS. What's TIC?

Tongue In Cheek

OK, I'll forgive you... but if we ever end up in the same camp spot I'm going to play them over my vehicle stereo just to annoy you :)

That's the most sensible thing you've said lately.....

Gerhardp1
Pity you can't learn from it

When you are so full of yourself you can no longer send a prompt riposte, you should take stock of the fact that there are many Gods, but you're not one of them..

Cheers :)

You forgot to mention how you'd decreased the power to stay within the ACMA limit :))

Who really cares what power you run aslong as it is clean power....

Regrads Richard

Richard, and of course you've had yours on a spec analyzer?
The ACMA regs on UHF CB are there for various reasons.
As are the penalties (and yes they do enforce those who shout their 35watts to the world...at least up here)

Footy,
My 999 is still on the original 5W output that it came with from Olbis. (yes strange, I know, but true)

The Sawtron 999 is the UHF CB and the KG107 is the commercial UHF.

In life not every thing we do is legal........are you a coppa or something.

There is always one person to ruin a party, If you are worried about extra power on UHF JEEEEESSSS I would hate to live next door to you.

7 radio inspectors and 4 vehicles to cover all of Australia....mmmm

If you worried about every thing we did if it is legal or other there would be no time left in the day for any other activities.

I am going out tomorrow and buy my self one of those 75 watt power uppers for my UHF!

Regards Richard

Good on you ! No I'm not a coppa, just a responsible member of radio community. I do this stuff every day all day professionally.
And there are remote monitoring stations for those inspectors by the way.
You're going to be sadly disappointed if you think higher power will give you more distance. Unless the other end has the same power and aerial, all you'll achieve will be a very loud but relatively local signal. Excellent for upsetting TV's, some car computers and other spectrum users. As I said, there are some good reasons for the regulations which may not be obvious until you find yourself in some degree of strife.
No, not everything in life is legal. There are good laws, petty laws and bad laws. In Australia there are far too many laws. But simply ignoring a law because you don't like it, or because it's inconvenient, doesn't make you a hero.
If you don't like a law, get it changed or deleted from the statutes.

I've been a radio pirate in one way or another since a young boy. I eventually got my ham ticket back in 79 but there's always one reg or another I'm at odds with but never mind life goes on, the rich get richer and I get poor.

Interesting.

Icom have a large base in the Amateur Radio market which is _very_ discerning about it's radios. Neither Uniden or GME have any products in that market. Is Icom much more expensive for CBs?

Mike Harding

Hi Mike,

Icom have 2 radios that they sell for the general CB user. The mobile IC-400Pro and the portable IC-41s.

IC-400Pro - $470 inc GST
IC-41s - $490 inc GST

These are RRP so you can always do better than these prices from companies that sell them. Icom mostly focus on the commercial market with a huge range of VHF and UHF radios but also have a HF unit and a range of amatuer units as well (as you mention).

Please don't think that I am trying to sell anything or focus people on a particular brand. I owned and used several Uniden radios and scanners since the early 90's and was very happy with them during that time.

Regards
David

So they are comparable in price, for CB, with the others. I reckon if I were in the market for a CB I'd probably buy the Icom.

>Please don't think that I am trying to sell anything or
>focus people on a particular brand.

The though never entered my or, I'm sure, anyone else's head. You're just imparting information as you know it, which is exactly what these internet forums are all about. Thanks David.

Mike Harding

Cheers Mike.

There are others out there though that like to jump on posts such as mine so I make it a point to try and prove that I my views are 'reasonably' impartial and that my 'experience' is just that and nothing else.

Might contact you in the near furture about some HF queries if thats alright.

Regards
David

>There are others out there though that like to jump
>on posts such as mine

Tell me about it! :)

>Might contact you in the near furture about some
>HF queries if thats alright.

Of course, always pleased to help if I can.

Mike Harding

mike_harding@fastmail.fm

Rubbish! Don't listen to him! Buy a Honda!

Isn't that the name of the missing goat's shoelace ?

Hi Ian,

Selcall can be heard by anyone on the same channel as you, if you need to get in contact with a friend and you don't know if they are on the channel instead of calling them over and over until the reply or you can selcall them (every one else will hear the selcall tones aswell) and if they are on channel 2 things happen....

1) There radio responds with a tone to you and on some on radios it will appear on you screen as you have made contact.

2) The radio you selcalled will have your number come up on the screen and usualy and message saying "calling" or some thing like that, so if they are at the radsio they call talk to you or if they are away fom there radio and it is switched on the know someone has called and who it is.

Selcall is not used much on UHF CB, in commercial UHF it is used alot and is a must have for HF radios using VKS, Radtel etc.

When you UHF radio is on it is in a hear all state meaning you will hear selcall, data, voice and abusive behavour.

Look at selcall like a telephone number with 4 to 5 didgts, not all secalls on all radios are the same there are about 5 standards so you have to program you radio to the standard you want to use.

All CB radios are set to the same standard from the factory and can not be changed, only the Icom IC400 and the IC40/41 handhelds can be changed to a differant standard in the programming software, all commercial radios can also be changed in the software.

If you only want to hear your friend or you group you can use CTCSS encoding/decoding, there radio need to be set the same as yours. This should be outlawed on CB radios because someone may be able to hear you and need help or to warm you about something but you will not hear them unless the use to same CTCSS code as you.

CTCSS coding can not be heared by anyone only the enabled radios, the tone is silent and is sent as a sub carrier with you transmission.

Some radios have a function that can decode the CTCSS tone from other radios using it and display it on your screen.

CTCSS is used in all commercial radio applications to allow uses access to the network or the repeater. You can have 30 companys with 100 radios each and only hear your company.(you would not run this many radios on a single channel)

CTCSS stands for "Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System".

Look at CTCSS as a cone of silence for you and you friends because you will not be th hear anyone else on that channel, but anyone will be able to hear you and your friends.

Some times of UHF CB you will try to break into a conversation only to be ignored, they are proberly not ignoring you they proberly have the CTCSS function switched on.

Regards Richard



You may be getting mixed up

This page may be of interest:

www.andrewscom.com.au/site-section-02.htm

Mike Harding

Thanks, having a look right now.