Linear Amplifiers

I'm guessing your R7 vertical is a type of antenna? How the he!! do you get out worldwide on 80w?

 

I've seen it done with less than 5 Watts

 

You have to watch these Ham guys, they sometimes get confused as to what radios most of us drivers are talking about and drift off "frequency" real bad!!

 

Shoot, I've talked to Australia with about only 10 Watts on 38 lsb. In case you don't know, Mike, that's CB

 

Because it's a base station antenna that is for 10-40 meter ham radios.

The antenna type and height makes or breaks any radio, be it CB, ham, business band, or whatever. Base station antennas as a rule will allow you to transmit and receive farther than mobile antennas will. The higher an antenna is, the farther you can transmit and receive, provided it has a low swr. Also a beam antenna allows you to transmit and receive farther than an omni direction antenna.

However a base station antenna is not feasible on a big truck. In fact due to height restrictions, most trucks cannot run the optimal mobile CB antenna size (which is 9 ft) so they run smaller antennas. Those smaller antennas unfortunately hinder your range, and thus linear amps are used to compensate.

 

Where is thepm button

 

I talked to 25 in austrailia from my suburban on chanbel 11 with only 25 bird watts
and been known to walk allover a few big base stations

 

YEP nothing like a base antenna to extend range however you can't use one on a truck ....

R7 .... on RIGHT

 

I talked to 25 in austrailia from my suburban on chanbel 11 with only 25 bird watts
and been known to walk allover a few big base stations

 

hehehehe...thought there would be one....all other Forums have one!

email me at jessejamesdallas@hotmail.com or pm on one of the other Forums I guess...