DOES ANYONE USE CB RADIOS ANY MORE??

Malcom,

I believe they are talking about AM CB radios, not UHF per se ;-)

Andrew

I still have a 40 ch am/ssb unit fitted, and despite all the guessing there are still people on and some interesting skip from all over the place from time to time.
I dont use it for conversations that often, but if push come to shove in an emergency in the scrub you could be saved by a contact on skip at certain times of the day.
I use the uhf as the best car to car radio and the HF would be the first used in an emergency .
I guess it all abit nostalgic for me as i was heavily involved in the CB scene 30 odd years ago when it was first around.

Cheers Pesty

$385

i thought it would be dearer than $385 to have a UHF that has a decent range, chris.

Price has nothing to do with range. They are all the same power output which is 5 watts for mobiles. Hand helds are a bit different, you will find most are about 1/2 watt or 1 watt.
What you do get for extra money are lots of frills which you may or may not need.

Check out this website. Reputable supplier at better than shop prices. I will save about $100 on the unit i will be purchasing. http://www.prestigecom.net.au/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1&zenid=f98c5f221a6b501f9ad561a2f02ac85e

usual disclaimer :-)
Tony

Be careful with what you buy of Prestige, they sell GME and some other brands that they buy of a third party...they are not authorised resellers and the warranty is void, according to GME they are selling second hand stuff.

Phone GME and ask them.

I know there amateur radio stuff is grey imports.

Just found this..

http://www.exploroz.com/Forum/Topic/67003/Buyer_Beware_-_GME_Warranty.aspx

When I saw that Thread I emailed Uniden and asked them to clarify and they say that Prestige is an authorised Uniden outlet.

I prefer Uniden to GME and I'm not intending a thread hijack with that comment, just explaining why I asked about uniden and not GME.

I recently installed a Uniden UH088 radio in an 80series. Costs were $240 for the set (brand new runout model from Prestige), $67 for the coax, gutter mount, PL259 plug and a stubbie aerial.
Adds up to $307 for the lot.

Smokey, you (too) seem to be referring to the popular UHF radio set-up.

However, the original poster was asking the question in relation to the "old fashioned" AM CB radio....the pre-cursor to the UHF.

The UHF CB is much clearer than the old AM CB....it's like comparing am radio to fm radio on your in-car receiver (for the "normal" radio stations like ABC and FM104.1 etc)...they are 2 different transmission methods.....

Roachie

GB SA from GB WA,

In the early days of Citizen Band radio (CB) it was all AM. Eventually AM was replaced by UHF but it is still "CB", radio for the citizens.

You will find that AM is rarely, if ever, used. If you intend to speak to other road users they will not be using AM.

Put a UHF set into your vehicle. Use your AM/SSB for fun listening to what little traffic there may be on sideband.

I also endorse Prestige Coms here in WA. Very good prices.

So just to clarify, it is ALL CB, the old freqs were AM, now it's UHF. It's just that some people referred to AM as CB, and left it there when UHF came out, but the terminology was incorrect.

cheers

Hi GB, the old CB was 27mhtz AM or SSB which was on HF band and the new one are on UHF band.

Damien

hi, we have 2 hand held unidens that are supposed to give us a range of 8ks, i dout they go 1k, chris.

yea, thats exactly what me and a mate were saying.
UHF is the go for communicating with other unknown people at close range, but if you went to a busy place there would be a lot less traffic on 27meg, so we plan on doing that, i'll just use the HF radio as it has the 27meg channels programmed (at the appropriate power)
So my opinion is that a 27meg cb would really only be useful if you knew other people who had one - couldn't hurt to put it in, but plan on a uhf as well.
Having said that was radioed by a trucky on 27meg about 5 years ago to say the trailer lights were blown - he probably saw the long antenna. (festoons turned to powder on the finke desert race course)