washburn830
Member
Hello all, I'm new here, but a long time radio guy. I was a big time CB'er in the 70's and I'm a ham now. The trouble with CB's has always been the crappy AM quality, the large hard to tune antennas and the large radios. Skip can make local communications (which is what it is for anyway) almost impossible.
Since MURS came out I've found it really useful as a two way radio for real world use. I caravan a lot with my wife and we use for that and for backpacking, off road trips with my buddies. You name it, we use 'em for everything! Even the two watt hand held radios seem to talk further and more reliably than the AM 27Mhz CB.
Am I alone in thinking that if the world stopped turning and the FCC did something intelligent like add 15 more channels to MURS it could become the new CB? We could abandon the squawk boxes and use real narrow band FM radios. Two watts on VHF with a really good antenna would talk quite a ways!
And think about how easy it would be to mount antennas!
Imagine a CB that doesn't suffer from nasty skip blasting through when you're trying to talk to a guy a mile away! Think about how small and convenient a tiny mobile vhf mobile radio could be!
I know cell phones have taken over but there are still a lot of circumstances where a short range (5 miles) radio makes better sense.
Thoughts?
Since MURS came out I've found it really useful as a two way radio for real world use. I caravan a lot with my wife and we use for that and for backpacking, off road trips with my buddies. You name it, we use 'em for everything! Even the two watt hand held radios seem to talk further and more reliably than the AM 27Mhz CB.
Am I alone in thinking that if the world stopped turning and the FCC did something intelligent like add 15 more channels to MURS it could become the new CB? We could abandon the squawk boxes and use real narrow band FM radios. Two watts on VHF with a really good antenna would talk quite a ways!
And think about how easy it would be to mount antennas!
Imagine a CB that doesn't suffer from nasty skip blasting through when you're trying to talk to a guy a mile away! Think about how small and convenient a tiny mobile vhf mobile radio could be!
I know cell phones have taken over but there are still a lot of circumstances where a short range (5 miles) radio makes better sense.
Thoughts?