FM CB

[slowmover]

My Stryker base gets out fine with this antenna at the house. https://www.amazon.com/Sirio-Antenna-GPE-10m-Base/dp/B009GWL8EK any ideas for monting on my pick up truck with the Anytone?

A PRESIDENT Texas 1800 on mine.

SIRIO Performer 5000 would get into the same ballpark. Same for one of Kales 27” shaft Predators, or a SIGNAL ENGINEERING Golden Rod 45.

All are contenders against a 102”, but without the highway-speed bends.

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[slowmover]

If the truckers switch to CB FM, how will they be able to run 1000 watts so they cab ague from one fuel island to the other???

The base stations are the problem. One can leave behind some yayhoo with a few hundred watts fairly quickly. But a beam and a kilowatt are something else.

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[RFI-EMI-GUY]

If the truckers switch to CB FM, how will they be able to run 1000 watts so they cab ague from one fuel island to the other???

Yes and they will sound just fine. The truck alternator wont be happy with the Class C current draw.

 

[Ensnared]

Okay so it's been a bit since FM has come out. Anyone using it on a regular basis? If so, thoughts on buying a few and using as a base and a few mobiles for back country communications. Think AM skip would be an issue?
We're pondering a project.
Thanks.

Oh, my God. I was under the "delusion" that I would find FM CB traffic. Other than a few radio-addicts in Temple, Texas, I have never ever talked to one living soul on FM. I bought an Anytone 500-M. This radio pales in comparison to the performance of a $35.00 used Cobra 29 which was peaked out with talkback. It is a workhorse.

I thought that there would be a flock of those migrating to channel 19 FM. I have not found much FM CB radio radio traffic in Texas; however, I have never tried to talk in a larger city, Houston, Dallas, etc.

 

[rescuecomm]

It's probably going to be a niche group that wants cheap comms around the farm or when four wheeling. Since no extra channels were added, there is not a lot of reason for people to replace radios.

 

[KMG54]

I found it nice when the local inbreds start giving radio hobbyist's advice gomer tells you you need to do this and Cletus says the opposite, that's when we go to FM and have intelligent conversations. These are the locals running 1K and splattering 4 or 5 channels. Does not matter you can't understand a word they say, but their watt meter say's they are putting out 800 watts.

 

[KMG54]

And by the way slowmover, my post was in jest on how to mount the antenna listed in the link to my truck, hence the smiley's. I have a Stryker A10 on the roof of the truck.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

Okay so it's been a bit since FM has come out. Anyone using it on a regular basis? If so, thoughts on buying a few and using as a base and a few mobiles for back country communications. Think AM skip would be an issue?
We're pondering a project.
Thanks.

It would be an slight improvement over AM as far as noise reduction. I don't know of any domestic radios that have FM plus CTCSS tone squelch. It would be a plus if the radios have that so you don't have to listen to others. The EU/UK radios made by Albrecht offer CTCSS. President might on their EU/UK but they don't on the US models.

 

[slowmover]

And by the way slowmover, my post was in jest on how to mount the antenna listed in the link to my truck, hence the smiley's. I have a Stryker A10 on the roof of the truck.

The re-packaged WILSON 5000 unit.

 

[slowmover]

Oh, my God. I was under the "delusion" that I would find FM CB traffic. Other than a few radio-addicts in Temple, Texas, I have never ever talked to one living soul on FM. I bought an Anytone 500-M. This radio pales in comparison to the performance of a $35.00 used Cobra 29 which was peaked out with talkback. It is a workhorse.

I thought that there would be a flock of those migrating to channel 19 FM. I have not found much FM CB radio radio traffic in Texas; however, I have never tried to talk in a larger city, Houston, Dallas, etc.

I’d say it’s when one realizes he might tie up AM-19 awhile that requesting all to switch to the desired FM frequency (21-FM?) is how it’ll get more popular.

Among locals, first.

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