A GMRS Radio over a CB Radio???

Just a few thoughts.

GMRS isn't a technology, it is called a service.

Nothing special about it.

By the way, $100 buys you a used Kenwood radio that can be programmed for GMRS.

Good for you, I've been in it a lot longer and have experience to back it so here is what I am thinking.

Public safety is told what to use, they have no choice when frequencies are allocated.

They are sold systems, not individual pieces of equipment after the frequencies are allocated.

The latest and I think one of the biggest mistakes is the massive investment into trunked systems for interoperability. Two things happen with this, one is the system is vulnerable to an attack that can bring down all of it, there is no simplex fall back but the other is the exclusion for accountability to the people to monitor these agencies.

UHF is a line of sight signal, you can't talk miles with a consistency unless you use repeaters.

Highway worker is I think 12 or even 14 as the most dangerous job. Truck driving ranks higher than cop or any other public servant.

We don't lose as many highway workers as we do drivers. I think there are 10x as much drivers who are killed.

 

If the 74-mile range incident is the reference I think it is, I believe it was achieved by an operator who was sitting on a hill talking across a valley to a guy on another hill. Or something like that.

All this was the topic of hot discussions a few years ago.

It was interesting.

 

Mileage was one was parked in an area of pa and other party was driveing away in pa..Vid is on youtube..I know one of the people and trucker of the other end is currently not doin well cause he got the covid 19 bug..
So "story" as said isnt a whopper(as in fake) as was implied..
Also vids of a 45 mile cobra 29 to..Its rec was highly modified but he to was in a truck with two fibreglass ant and barefoot..Vid of that is also available on youtube...Again i know one of the two people involved..
Only whoppers involved is the burger king one im gonna get after my trk gets greased,90 insp and mvi....

 

Either that or reading this book and understanding antenna theory would take them a long way.
There's a big difference between resonance and SWR.
If my SWR was perfect and I wasn't resonant I wouldn't have been able to hear him from that distance. Resonance and impedance are more critical than SWR.
Reflections III: Transmission Lines and Antennas : M. Walter Maxwell : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

 

Bens dead..Died a cpl yrs ago..He had covid 19.....

Just because there are stickers on a truck with a msg as per say doesnt mean anyone really notices..

Someone here mentioned about drivers not seeing the 12" letters on signs for highway/safty workers ect,wtf are you thinking that they will notice a channel to listen to on gmrs...Your so full of your gmrs bs that i need to be wearing rubber boots..
Man oh man stop pushin yer crap for cryin out loud..Its like your talkin from both sides of your mouth..