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RE: UHF radio


we have a pair of hand held uhfs , and have used it on previous trips just to listen for the truckies

but we usually need it if i m some where and dad needs to buzz me , i just use them on channel 18 mostly

but listen to truckies on 40



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I remember back in the '70s C.B was not allowed to be used while driving and a lot of us were getting fined fined for useing them.
Changes to the laws when mobile phones came in sugested that the phone was a hand held instrument and C.B was a mounted unit and was allowed to be used.
Well, that was how it was explained to me, so i'm going with it.

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I can tell you for a fact if you run into the wrong member of the police force while talking on a hand held mic attached to anything you will be booked, it is one of those funny laws that they dont inforce all that much cheerss Red Dog.



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Hi Guy,s I drove truck,s interstate for 13 year,s and local in and around Brisbane for 7 year,s and i can tell you if you just talk to them as if you would talk to any body else you don.t have to say over or out or any of that crap and if you are being over taken by one and don,t have a radio when his trailor is clear of the front of your vehicle just flash your head light,s to let him know it,s safe to come back in and most of the time they will flash there blinkers IE left/right/left that mean,s thank you or if you do have a radio just say your right mate bring it in.Also in all the year,s i was driving truck,s i have never been pulled up for using a U.H.F so i don,t know were you are getting your information from Cheer,s.



-- Edited by Ray443 on Monday 17th of September 2012 11:51:19 PM

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We purchased a hand held 5 watt UHF set a while back. It suppose to have a 15 km range...I also find them very hard to hear. Lots of noise unless they are very close.
Wondering if it was still worth getting an in car set installed. Would they be clearer to hear. It has come in handy hearing of accidents on the road and why the delay in the traffic but the main question...is there a difference in quality of sound...and distance.

I suppose its handy still with what we have in our travels we'll be doing in Dec/Jan with traffic on the road etc but would still like to know if the in car set would be a better way to go??

Thanks

Julie

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