GME TX 3340

Hi Ken

The unit we were thinking of buying will have the 80 channels so after your advise it looks like we will be buying a good unit.

Thanks and regards
Deborah

John
FWIW
Was gunna get one of those 2.1 mt aerials, but decided not to in the end.
Wish I had had of lifted my UHF aerial, as I could not get as far out as a mate, whose was mounted high off his spare wheel carrier.. He could hear vehicles calling locations well before I could.

There is a safety factor in desert country, to let people know which direction you are heading, and roughly where you are.
On CSR 2 years ago, and yakked our heads off between vehicles
Believe me, people could hear us coming,, and as I said, we looked at that as a good safety factor, in dune or heavy scrub country.. ie around Well 30 ..and again coming down from 38, to 33

Other people said they knew where we were, but would not reply, because they feel they should never talk on Ch 40 ...because they should not bog down the call up channel... must be sone cort of "sacred chennel"

Cheers
Bucky

Hi Bucky.

Re the vibs, it's not the height of the arial, just the stiffness. On my roo bar flexible arials get a hell of an harmonic up and quickly break. My arial would only be about a metre long.

Re the range, one of our party had a high gain ICOM arial and he was able to hear parties at least 2-3 kays further out than me, while the other vehicle was struggling to hear anyone more than three kays away because of his el cheapo whip.

Cheers.

JB

I run a RFI aerial on my bullbar, and this one is a little beauty.

RFI aerial

Never an issue, although I figure that the only way to get 6.5db out of it is to roof mount it... Rest of the time it just chugs along, probably around 4.5-5db (but never been tested). But I did manage to pick up a mate at Pierre Springs, Well 6 on the Canning, from only about 1/2 way in fromGranite Peak Station, and that did surprise me.

I too tried running cheaper type aerials, and yes they break too, then the more expensive type, and they broke...

I can run the longer thick GME type aerial, with it's shorter brother, for local running around, but then they both rattle the bejesus out of my garage door, going in and out. And believe me at 3 or 4 am in the morning it's not good for SWMBO.

My Radio is an Icom 400 Pro, and has a couple of mods.
Apart from going nuts trying to figure it out when I first brought it, the radio is brilliant.

Cheers, and have a good one
Bucky

Hi Bucky & JB

Thanks for the heads upon the aerials as well as I was wondering which one we should buy. Very hard to decide which is best as the sales staff in stores are helpful but at the end of the day just want to sell you their stock.

Thanks
Deborah

Steve

Looks like we are purchasing the right unit for or trip , thanks for the feedback.

Regards
Deborah