Baffled by the range claims

All the plastic n such....On the roof or a bigger hunk of metal surface will always increase your tx/rec..
Keep wanting to try my 4 way mag mount with 1 of my skip shooters but i gotta make it taller so i can use my own stud n coax.....What came on it is same as a roof mounted stud,junk stuff

 

Wasnt on today...Work late last night used up a full log book day doin switches 158 mi each way..Plus my chemo drug side effects are startin to affect me.....The list of possibilitys are not exciteing...lol ill soon need a bucket near by incase...

 

There’s probably a weak[est] link in the company truck where an inexpensive change could be a real help. A $25 SKIPSHOOTER antenna near 13’5” is worth considering. (And tune for best SWR).

Yes, a typical family vehicle is easily made into a good mobile. Metal over plastic

 

A prayer sent your direction.

CB is a distraction from my own medical woes.

 

Mirror mount for 579 would like to see that!

 

Time travel?

 

Only if it's tuned to 1.21 jiggawatts.

 

That video makes me wonder why someone would want to hear radio traffic from long distances, except perhaps when off-duty, bored and nothing better to do.

But when working on the road on a schedule to deliver a load and using the radio to help accomplish that mission, who the hel! would want to put up with such confusion?

 

We tend to talk past each other. Squelch or RF Gain?

The DSP Speaker allows me to pull coherence from chaos. I’ll be pulled over on the shoulder 5-miles or more earlier than guys around here with otherwise identical “good” tested systems. You’ll be wondering why I was there until a little too late.

Atlas in hand and using GPS. Asking locals about an alternate route, as:

1). Highway is closed ahead. Fatalities. 9-miles and growing.

2). Everyone else desperate for alternate.

I don’t want what either has. Backed up on Interstate or crawling along a side road with 400 other trucks.

A). I recently took a two hour break at THE LAST truckstop before a road closure. Woke up after lunch and a nap and it had disappeared.

B). A few months ago I ran the southern alternate route around a closed Interstate problem while all others deviated north. They’d have had to do a U-turn across the median to drive back to my route.

And, don’t knock entertainment. There’s nothing like rock haulers describing the latest antics of their brother driver, Skeeter, who the boss fires twice per year, every year, to brighten up a cloudy morning.

But they’re not on the same road. Several miles off another direction.

 

I haven't figured out how to do that yet but I would not rule it out from the realm of possibility