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Cobra 45WX - 40H/40L Channels?

kingshootr

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Among the stuff I got when my Dad passed, is a Cobra 45WX. Seems to work great. When I scan through the channels, besides the typical 40, it runs through a bunch more - tagged 1-40H, and 1-40L. Any ideas what that's about?

Jeez, and after listening for 5 minutes - CB has changed. I read other threads on here mentioning a-holes blasting drivel endlessly. At least three channels have rednecks/hillbilly's and jive sounding talkers yapping away unintelligibly. Perhaps GMRS is the way to go?
 
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kingshootr said:
Perhaps GMRS is the way to go?
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Used to have a CB in my truck. After a long roadtrip I found there wasn't much useful traffic on CB anymore. In some areas, if you are listening at the right time of day, you'll hear something, but it's real hit and miss. The 1980's were a long time ago and CB is not what it was.

For some, CB is still useful. But for casual listening, it takes some patience. Band conditions will play into this. Yeah, there's a lot of people running really high power and just blabbering non stop. Useless to me.
With a good base setup, it may be fun to listen, make a few contacts, etc.

GMRS, on the other hand, is an entirely different radio service. While there are a lot of people using it, and the consumer grade equipment is out there, it's not well suited for making random contacts. Most users are running PL tones, and have specifically done this to filter out those that are not in their 'group'. Trying to make random CB type contacts to GMRS users would be difficult since you'd have to find the PL/DPL code they were using, and then they may not be really interested in talking to strangers.
Also, UHF doesn't do skip like CB does, so short range contacts are the norm. It would pretty much need to be someone driving through your immediate area.
 
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