Modern day cigarette lighter plug 2022 GMC Terrain

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Test for noise between the two options.

Power port/cigar lighter isn’t a dedicated circuit, and if it isn’t as quiet as to the Batt, you know what to do. (CB ain’t a VHF/UHF radio).

The game is the other guys radio rig: You can’t hear the guy had the information you needed due to being lazy — he’s lost in the hash these less-sophisticated CB radios can’t filter — well, it ain’t as if the angels didn’t try.

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Play-by-Play (3-dead amongst fires)

Weather went from acceptably-nice to near-instant snow & fog. No one changed their unacceptable-risk normal bad driving habits when everything became as bad as it can be (snow slush plus fog). 10:30 am. I’m in a hurry.

As those trucks crashed there “should” have been AM-19 warnings from some of them (and I don’t think that happened as it should), but one needs:

1). I.D. of road
2). Direction of travel.
3). Mile Marker
— Lanes affected
4). Problem

Repeat.

“Westbound Interstate 81 at the 227-yardstick, both lanes closed to ongoing MASSIVE pile-up”.

“You” only hear that a half-mile out you are already inside the problem.

Big wrecks like these — ongoing — it’s hard to get a clear picture of what’s out ahead. Adrenaline is running and guys are drowning each other out.


Hey, but ya could be a Utube star for three days.
Just spend the radio money on a GoPro.

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The Uniden Beartracker 885 hybrid CB/Scanner would have been the ideal radio after that crash scenario. (Both services sound very good together or separately across a KES-5).

Given an install worthy of permanent use to maximize reliability & performance. Power, radio mount, and best-quality antenna systems (two needed).



Paired with a Uniden BC-906w Wireless Speaker/Mic one could have moved his own and himself hundreds of feet away from the ongoing crash and — potentially — had both CB and available Emergency Services channels in his shirt pocket.

Can program audio priority (radio menu) that speaker prioritizes one versus the other while listening to both.

— A separate small mini-USB adaptor lithium charger to accompany one as hours may go past. (Mic is not power-hungry, but why chance it?)



A quality radio systems installation is a vehicle UPGRADE.

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