Alabama thread!

I was always impressed with the bad boy mowers I use to sell in college at Ace Hardware. They’d be worth a look at.

 

who uses a handheld CB in here? with my mic being so crappy on mine and it being such a cheap CB anyways I think I just want to move to a handheld and ditch the whole setup that I have now.

just need suggestions on a good handheld that has good range.

 

You’re gonna get crappy reception with your truck being a Faraday cage and all.

 

One of the Carolina guys had one last time I was at AOP. Just seemed like too much of a PITA to run an external antenna off the handheld unit. And if you dont run an external antenna, your range will be crap

 

I don't think that's true (the reception part). I know some folks use handhelds and they work fine. I just don't know which.

 

they don't make one with good range? lol

 

Meh. You’ll spend good money to get a good handheld. My cheap CB works fine.

 

my cheap CB did work fine, but if I keep spending on cheap CBs then I'll total enough to have just gotten a handheld.

 

What do you do to ruin these things? Use the mic as a hammer?

 

CB signals won’t be very strong coming in our out of the cab of your truck. Think about why people run 4’ antennas just to get the plane over the cab.

 

no idea, just one day someone was like "uh scotty your mic sounds like crap" and it's just continually been that way.

 

Get a uniden 520 and call it a day

 

i don't know the tech behind all this junk, nor do I care to....why does HAM work so well, just because it's on different waves?

 

Much higher output and has the ability to bounce off repeaters all over the world.

 

It’s like comparing FM radio to AM radio basically.

 

Almost literally

 

I always thought the difference was just one had an F and one had an A.





obviously kidding

 

I want to say CB runs in the 20-30 MHz range and Ham is generally in the 140s depending on the band you’re using.

 

ok too technical, gtfo.

 

Aren’t you an engineer?

You gtfo, sir.