Hi all I hope the picture comes out ok . I decided to buy a twin pack Uniden portable UHF after a caravanning friend said he used and liked the portability. Anyway I will find out soon enough if they were a good choice. $299.00 at Dick Smiths with an added 1 year warranty so 3 years in total. Recommended channels please for - Listening in to truckies / road trains
Well done, you have successfully loaded the pics..
Aussie Paul.
Dougwe said
02:08 PM Jun 16, 2015
Well done Rooster, they do have a shorter distance coverage being a hand held though.
Now, if you do a search in Techies there was a list of all the frequencies used bu UHF. If that fails ask Mr Google.
Just to get you going with the important ones though.......
.....5&35 are for emergency calls, move to another channel when contact made and asked to move.
9 is a general call channel, then move to another.
18 is for caravaners, then move to another channel.
40 is the general truckies channel but 29 for some reason is used on the Pacific Hwy NSW, again, move to another chennel if chatting for any length of time.
I have these all set in my scan mode and also scan 22, 25 and 35. You will find a lot of road works on 22&25.
Have fun good buddy.
Edit...Ooops, forgot to say, please keep 5&35 free of general chit chat and for emergencies only, one day you might need it free. There are a lot of idiots that chat on it but even worse, companies using it for business.
You will notice when in Cities and large towns there are a lot of idiots on UHF in general and will learn all about body parts etc. Do what I do and turn right down or OFF.
Rodger that.
-- Edited by Dougwe on Tuesday 16th of June 2015 02:13:59 PM
Roostertales said
05:35 PM Jun 16, 2015
Hi Doug
Many thanks for this - I will see if I can program in these channels for general scanning only and write that in a visible place until I memorise.
Yes another friend did say I would have limited range , however I thought as a good starting point and just local " noise" might be helpful.
I guess not sure yet how useful will be overall.
Not a lot of interest in using inside city areas - hopefully will catch up on the road one day :)
Cheers Mike
PS - Can you plug into an externally mounted aerial to increase range ? could be someone has thought of this maybe - would be a great add on
dING said
06:06 PM Jun 16, 2015
You can but a antenna for it that gives you about a gain 3db
Usually 3db doubles the output and in the input tis a worthwhile
Option but tis all theory but it does boost the signal
-- Edited by dING on Tuesday 16th of June 2015 06:07:43 PM
-- Edited by dING on Tuesday 16th of June 2015 06:08:06 PM
Roostertales said
06:10 PM Jun 16, 2015
Hi dING - who should I see or talk to 'bout this if I want to consider how to hook up down the track ?
rockylizard said
07:02 PM Jun 16, 2015
Gday...
Mike, the attached file shows all the channels and how to use them.
Hi all I hope the picture comes out ok . I decided to buy a twin pack Uniden portable UHF after a caravanning friend said he used and liked the portability. Anyway I will find out soon enough if they were a good choice. $299.00 at Dick Smiths with an added 1 year warranty so 3 years in total. Recommended channels please for - Listening in to truckies / road trains
Other Vanners Emergency
Backing the van with SWMBO !
Well done, you have successfully loaded the pics..
Aussie Paul.
Well done Rooster, they do have a shorter distance coverage being a hand held though.
Now, if you do a search in Techies there was a list of all the frequencies used bu UHF. If that fails ask Mr Google.
Just to get you going with the important ones though.......
.....5&35 are for emergency calls, move to another channel when contact made and asked to move.
9 is a general call channel, then move to another.
18 is for caravaners, then move to another channel.
40 is the general truckies channel but 29 for some reason is used on the Pacific Hwy NSW, again, move to another chennel if
chatting for any length of time.
I have these all set in my scan mode and also scan 22, 25 and 35. You will find a lot of road works on 22&25.
Have fun good buddy.
Edit...Ooops, forgot to say, please keep 5&35 free of general chit chat and for emergencies only, one day you might need it free. There are a lot of idiots that chat on it but even worse, companies using it for business.
You will notice when in Cities and large towns there are a lot of idiots on UHF in general and will learn all about body parts etc. Do what I do and turn right down or OFF.
Rodger that.
-- Edited by Dougwe on Tuesday 16th of June 2015 02:13:59 PM
Many thanks for this - I will see if I can program in these channels for general scanning only and write that in a visible place until I memorise.
Yes another friend did say I would have limited range , however I thought as a good starting point and just local " noise" might be helpful.
I guess not sure yet how useful will be overall.
Not a lot of interest in using inside city areas - hopefully will catch up on the road one day :)
Cheers Mike
PS - Can you plug into an externally mounted aerial to increase range ? could be someone has thought of this maybe - would be a great add on
You can but a antenna for it that gives you about a gain 3db
Usually 3db doubles the output and in the input tis a worthwhile
Option but tis all theory but it does boost the signal
-- Edited by dING on Tuesday 16th of June 2015 06:07:43 PM
-- Edited by dING on Tuesday 16th of June 2015 06:08:06 PM
Gday...
Mike, the attached file shows all the channels and how to use them.
Hope it helps.
cheers - John