Mobile Ham Setup Planning (2M/70cm)

[streetglideok]

Listen to CB, all that jabbering from 100's of miles away isn't from just a cb radio. 10meter modified, or amplified cb (11mtr)

Out of band, a lot of folks drop just below the cb bands into 10 meter and talk. Modified cb's all over the place.

Lies I tell you, all lies. There are no such things as freebanders or the NSA listening in on our calls! Yeah guys will buy the connex radios, and the like, and go to those extra cb channels with their splatter boxes.

[ChadAmberg]

Yeah, you aren't supposed to modify part 97 radios(ham) for 11m CB operation. You can listen, but not be able to transmit. Now truth be told, in a true emergency situation, knowing exactly how to unlock the 11m band may prove beneficial if you are setup for 10m operations already. Now on the flip side, if you can find a good unaltered 148 side mic, or the twin Uniden Grant side mic, those are considered some really decent ssb 11m radios.

I sold a couple HR2510s a year ago, now those were great 10meter rigs that worked well on 11.

[streetglideok]

Ive heard of the Hr2510's and a few other models that were actually decent radios. Its the splatter boxes with the limiters cut, and the poor operators that are the chief problem with 11m operations, which I can only imagine the chaos if an emergency situation occurs. That's one reason I wouldn't get too excited about being able to operate on 11m. Down in Atlanta, unless you are running power with echo, you aren't heard in that mess, and that is on a good day.

[rbeau30]

Ive heard of the Hr2510's and a few other models that were actually decent radios. Its the splatter boxes with the limiters cut, and the poor operators that are the chief problem with 11m operations, which I can only imagine the chaos if an emergency situation occurs. That's one reason I wouldn't get too excited about being able to operate on 11m. Down in Atlanta, unless you are running power with echo, you aren't heard in that mess, and that is on a good day.

Yeah, not really worried about operating on 11M... I could just imagine all the friggin yahoos who have watch smokey and the bandit all of a sudden can't use thier internets, or ipfones, or land lines.... ohhh wait noone has a land ine anymore. Hooking up the radio they have in the garage they inherited from their grandpa. Talk about radio jam.

I'm more concerned with listening, and if I have to transmit, it will be on the sideband.

[rbeau30]

Paid for a GMRS License.... ugh why did I do that?


Ahh well, my wife and I will be able to talk while she is on the way home. Plus there is a couple repeaters in my area. on 442.660 which I have not figured out the tone and supposedly 462.625, which I want to be able to contact some folks that talk on there.

[streetglideok]

For the cost of gmrs, just get the wife to get her ticket. $15 is cheap IMO

[rbeau30]

Yeah, but all those hours of "helping her study". LOL

[streetglideok]

Heck, I threw a study guide at my wife who knew nothing of radios, and gave her two days to cram. She passed with no problems, lol. Its all in a matter of getting her to want to. I know I know,lol

[rbeau30]

So you are saying It is going to take some... effort, on my end.

[streetglideok]

Lol, a little. Get her taking practice tests on eham, that would be a good start.