uhf choice and aerial choice

A GME AE1018K1 is a very good aerial and on a 100 ser bullbar it is the exact height to know if you can get into shopping car parking buldings LOL


Wont make much difference where you are apart from perhaps in the hills.

We found ours good on a trip right around the country

I use 2x Icom 41S Handhelds...One is connected to an RFI 6.5 db external aerial when i go away then is disconnected and locked away when i am home,its just a matter of a quarter turn and the handheld is disconnected from the bnc connector which is connected to external aerial...Its brilliant and dont let anyone tell you it wont transmit like an internal fixed radio,they both transmit at 5watt if selected....

Plus at the end of the trip you can take it out of your vehicle...

Other one is used for guiding me down rocky areas,through rivers,reversing etc etc...

Oh the in car Icom has a speaker in the mike,others do not,although i think Uniden does.

Goodluck

Any of these will do the job, http://www.gme.net.au/products/radio-communications/uhf-477mhz-cb-radios/TX3220 It just depend on what vehicle you've got and where you want to mount it.
Cheers Dave..

Just make sure that you buy one that can be programed for the 80 UHF channels coming in to force soon, as the older ones might be obsolete in a few years.

See UHF CB Australia for more information. I will still stick with my old GME TX4400 until it perhaps becomes illegal to use the old radios.

In my Rodeo, I have a TX4400 (which I got from a friend for $0), 4.5mt of RG58 coax and a 4.5dB gain stainless steel whip (ground plane) antenna with an in-built coil. This performs very well in Tassie due to all the hills. On the mainland you will probably need a 6dB gain antenna, or thereabouts. Just make sure you can get somebody to check the SWR of the radio before you start using it. My SWR meter shows about 1.9:1 Standing Wave Ratio for my current set up.

I would personally recommend a 5W handheld. With these you can take them any where and lock them up when not in use. Beats having to muck around with coax, antenna's and having to check SWR, etc. I guess it all comes down to how much you want to spend.

Also, if you are going to travel in very remote areas, a HF radio with AM/SSB with do much better than a UHF. That's another thing to look in to.

Hope I haven't confused you more.

Cheers.