Four wheeler/escort vehicle CB questions.

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If you read my posts to the fullest extent then you would have read "Line of sight" Were I live you can talk on these things for over 15 miles. Get farther north and the distance goes down a bit but they still out perform a regular CB radio in every way.

If you get these and use them responsibly then you are good to go. Just like the marine band radios. Don't abuse them and you have nothing to worry about.

 

maybe top of Everest to an airplane 28 miles away

 

Did I say anything about talking 28 miles on one????? No I didn't. I said we were getting over 15 miles with them. Here in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota, it is pretty flat without much for hills to get in the way.

This is better distance then you can get with any "stock" CB radio with even the best antenna setup. Especially when skip is rolling since skip clutters up the CB frequencies to the point were mobil to mobil comunications become extremely tough since you have to dial back the rf gain or squelch to get rid of the extra noise. This noise has little to no effect on this little comunicators because they are on a completely different frequency then any CB radio.

Too bad that we can nto get the same style performance out of a stock CB but it is what it is.

But then when you are talking about escort to truck comunications, heck a Wally World toys section walkie talkie would work just fine since you are never more then a mile from the truck anyway. Get a couple tin cans and some twine. I perfer sweet corn cans over greenbean cans, but then I hate greenbeans.

 

Those Progresso soup cans on tv seem to work pretty well..

 

hi all i dont mean to hijack a thread but i just got a galaxy 979 and im using my dads old 102in whip i have it mounted on the bumper of my truck its a 08 chevy colorado any way i have it powerd from the battery and im getting engine noise bad what noise filter do i get ???

thanks

 

The 72" whip is intended to be used as the whip portion of an antenna that has a coil in series at or near the base. "Screwdriver antennas" are popular for mobile hams, with an enormous coil with a moveable contact point inside ("tap") to adjust the frequency it's good for. In that way, one antenna can be made to work (well, kinda) for several bands.
As Turbo-T noted, it's way too short for CB as is.
The antennas that are shorter than around 102" all have some sort of inductance (coil) incorporated into their design to make up for the lack of straight length. But remember that coils don't radiate much, and the shorter the antenna, the more coil there has to be.
Sometimes, bigger *is* better -- it's just that it's not always practical.
I apologize if this reply is too late to be of help; I just found the discussion.
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British Columbia has a bunch of Road Resource frequencies on VHF that are to be used by truckers for safety and coordination. They're just now changing their original 4 wideband channels into 20-something narrowband freqs, all with PL and 5 or 30 watts. Drivers are required to have a license, and to carry a certificate that their radios have been programmed by a licensed tech. Industry Canada has specifically not allowed the use of any radios that can be programmed by the end user.

Many trucks are still carrying radios such as Icom V-8000 mobiles that have been modified to use on the old channels: 158.940, 154.115, 155.805, and.... 163-sumpin'. My memory is a little clouded.

They were supposed to stop using them as they'd cross the border into Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Somehow it'd escape the attention of some drivers until they'd get yelled at by fire and local government dispatchers in the US.

There's a new band plan included here:
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hth/engineering/documents/Road_Radio_Project/PRC-07-1issue3-June-2010.pdf

Same thing in Alaska, where there's hardly anyone around anyway from the Yukon border till Tok, and that's just a whistle stop. Closer to Fairbanks & Anchorage, of course, the legitimate activity picks up.

So -- much like 27 MHz freqs outside of the legal 40 CB, there's a lot of VHF activity that happens regionally sans government consent.

But, as an FCC engineer-in-charge told me once at a convention, the FCC has so many mandated inspections to take care of every year, that they rarely have time for enforcement unless there's a complaint by someone.

That's all I've got. Right now I've got an Minmatar fleet massing in Gallente space, and my Alliance is calling for all stealth bombers to do some scouting (anyone here play Eve?)

-- Handlebar --
p.s. Sorry this content is so late compared to the thread; I just came across the thread and didn't see any related info.
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Well that answers my question there is nothing like it except for MURS here in the us ......