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Well. You get what you pay for. I have a $35 baofeng and a $450 Icom id-51a+. You have a Yeasu, so if you get a baofeng you will understand the difference. The Chinese radios do that have very good input filtering so they get overloaded easily. If I hook a baofeng to the antenna on the roof of...

The frame is the biggest difference. It's a 1"x1" instead of a 2"x3". I wouldn't drag an on road frame anyplace where you might get offcamber. It isn't set up to have the entire weight on one wheel. Also you would be limited to on-road tires since the offroad ones are too big to fit. If you...

I use dstar in remote places. It's nice as you don't have to ID by voice (callsign is in the data channel), and the signal never has any static. The downside is that nobody outside your own group can hear you as the equipment is rare even among ham operators. DMR can be used simplex, but it...

Your phone does not have a ham radio built in. Echolink uses the cellular data network to instruct someone else's node to key up on the repeater frequency in a geographic location near the repeater. You need a liscense for this just like aprs due to you being the "control operator" that...

Yikes! This is why you should always know you target and what is beyond. :( *mad* First, a siren isn't going to be street legal. You already knew that. The PA function on a CB isn't going to replace a 'real' PA, nor is it going to have a siren built in. A cop PA and Siren system runs 140+Db...

I've tried a few iPhone apps. They all have an issue that you have to figure out how to interface the phone to your radio. I don't have enough space in my rig for a radio or antenna dedicated to aprs, so I'd need to unplug my mic and change a bunch of settings to get a phone plugged in. I've...

The main issue is that there is no requirement to list your repeater anyplace, so you need to cobble together multiple lists to to get as many repeaters as you can. Even then, you'll wind up missing some. The largest programming set I'm aware of is the ID-5100 which has 1500 gps-aware...

A vehicle mounted cb will work "best" with an 8ft steel whip antenna. A coil shortened antenna will work less well, with the shorter ones working drastically less well then the longer ones. The shorter ones are also harder to tune then the longer ones (you need a SWR meter if you don't have one...

Another option would be to embrace the feature creap and get a radio with enough memories to cover the areas you travel to. Then you'll never need to reprogram regardless of travel. My id-5100 can cover 80% of every repeater on California in a single memory set. That same number of repeaters...

Is it a better way compared to what? What are you trying to power with it? A solar-in-a-box setup is the lowest common denominator for what it does. It does a good job, but a well engineered system for your specific use will always be better. It's not as good as a multiple AGM battery system...

Your ham radio liscense only allows you to run a transmitter in the country in which you got the liscense. You'll need to look up the requirements for each country in which you plan to operate. Some countries allow foreign liscensed individuals to operate without any paperwork, some countries...

I have an antenna analyzer that covers 2m and 70cm. The spring did not significantly change the SWR on my particular install. That being said, this antenna does require a significant groundplane. It works amazingly well on my hood mount, but does not work on 2 meters on the roof rack mount on...

Uniden has released a new CB that also has a very simple public safety scanner built in. It can transmit and recieve on CB frequencies, and recieve only on weather band, and recieve only on public safety both analog and digital trunking systems. It appears that they are using the...

Excellent choice. I really like the ability to gps-tag the memory slots on dr mode so that the radio knows which repeaters are "nearby" to wherever you are standing. Throw a SD card into its slot and your can page between programming sets making it awesome for road trips.

The term is actually older then the common use of AM. Nearly everyone used CW (Continuous wave) with morse code back in those days. AM didn't really pick up until about 1920, with the invention of the vacuum tube being in 1906 and it taking a number of years after that to commercialize the...

Etymology: It is "ham" or "Ham" but never "HAM", although CB is correct... Hello folks, I've noticed the common usage of a strange capitalization of "ham" when referring to the amateur radio service. This is pedantic, but someone once said that the start of true...

CB hasn't changed for a very long time. Any transistor based unit made by a reputable manufacturer will work nicely. I use a Uniden 510xl. The radio itself is liscensed on CB, so you don't need one yourself as long as you follow the rules. Ham radio is another story. Things are constantly...

The FCC has decided that a combination ham /cb radio isn't legal. One requirement to get your cb radio liscensed is that the radio can't transmit on any non-cb frequency. In the USA, all transmissions must be liscensed. In the cb band, the liscense is attached to the radio instead of the...

I added a bunch of ham radios and a little lockbox on the inside. Here is my "build sheet": http://www.wranglerforum.com/jeep-profiles/37409/

The other major negative is that the Diamond CR-8900 is quite a fragile antenna. Much more so then even the HF screwdriver that I've got. Edit to add: RuggedRadios does not appear to be selling a real Diamond CR-8900. Their antenna description page carefully avoids saying who made the antenna...