cruiseroutfit
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Great follow-up. For trail/overland travel, nearly exclusively simplex. The exception would be APRS. I do occasionally chat to others (including my mother as of recent) on our local repeaters.
How are you communicating on the trail or on the road?
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Great follow-up. For trail/overland travel, nearly exclusively simplex. The exception would be APRS. I do occasionally chat to others (including my mother as of recent) on our local repeaters.
Bill Ruttan
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You are a good son (with an apparently tech savvy mother)!
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craig333
Expedition Leader
Primarily ham radio but I have the capability to use any of the listed frequencies. On last weekends snow run the group leaders were using ham and gmrs. I may remove the CB radio, it hasn't seen use in years. Simplex only but its nice knowing I can use a repeater if it were necessary.
cruiseroutfit
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Here in BC Ham and simplex, it works well. Our Land Rover group has a mix of vehicle mounts and hand helds. I can hit about 10 Km (6 miles) most days on my Kenwood vehicle mount, lots of terrain in the way. CB was never much of thing in Canada, and FRS/GMRS are just not much used.
FrenchieXJ
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It was about 17 - 18 years ago. I was with a group of friends headed to Moab, Utah. We were in Utah and just turned East onto Interstate 70 off of Interstate 15 north bound.
Our group had started the climb up the hill. We were taking on our CB radios. I heard a Beaker call over the radio. I said “go breaker”. He returned with where are you? I said headed up the hill just turned off of the I-15. He said repeat again, and I did with the added part of 1 mile off of the 15 going east.
My thought was it was probably a trucker down on the I-15 (This was a clear line of sight shot a mile or so behind us.) I asked where he was? His next sentence was “South Sacramento!” I said I knew the area well and exactly where? He said off of Florin Blvd. I lived for a while in Orangevale. We chatted for a bout 2 minutes and I mentioned I would probably loose him as I crest the hill, and I did about 15 seconds later.
This was one of the rear occasions when the Ionosphere conditions were just right the short height of the radio waves bounced back to the earth. So line of sight (if I could see around the earth was 480 miles over the earths surface between locations.
It was very clear as if the person was a 1/4 mile away. So yes there are conditions where the radio waves can bounce around and get through. This is not the normal distance for signals to be heard. Normally it is line of sight.
I have had many transmissions where I have had conversations of over 25 miles away when one or the other was on a mountain and the other 5,000 feet below with a clear line of sight.
These are all with a standard and not a side band channel or a buster of any kind. Where we can not control the terrine the CB and FRS frequencies and power limits there are better solutions.
I have not even mentioned the people which you can have on the CB frequencies.
As the snow falls, the world goes quiet just to listen!
Our group had started the climb up the hill. We were taking on our CB radios. I heard a Beaker call over the radio. I said “go breaker”. He returned with where are you? I said headed up the hill just turned off of the I-15. He said repeat again, and I did with the added part of 1 mile off of the 15 going east.
My thought was it was probably a trucker down on the I-15 (This was a clear line of sight shot a mile or so behind us.) I asked where he was? His next sentence was “South Sacramento!” I said I knew the area well and exactly where? He said off of Florin Blvd. I lived for a while in Orangevale. We chatted for a bout 2 minutes and I mentioned I would probably loose him as I crest the hill, and I did about 15 seconds later.
This was one of the rear occasions when the Ionosphere conditions were just right the short height of the radio waves bounced back to the earth. So line of sight (if I could see around the earth was 480 miles over the earths surface between locations.
It was very clear as if the person was a 1/4 mile away. So yes there are conditions where the radio waves can bounce around and get through. This is not the normal distance for signals to be heard. Normally it is line of sight.
I have had many transmissions where I have had conversations of over 25 miles away when one or the other was on a mountain and the other 5,000 feet below with a clear line of sight.
These are all with a standard and not a side band channel or a buster of any kind. Where we can not control the terrine the CB and FRS frequencies and power limits there are better solutions.
I have not even mentioned the people which you can have on the CB frequencies.
As the snow falls, the world goes quiet just to listen!
FrenchieXJ
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I sit corrected!Orangevalieans should know it Florin "ROAD".
I lived on Central Ave, about 11/4 miles easy of Sunrise Mall this was 1972 & 73. The area was rolling hills with cattle roaming in the fields. The area has really changed a number of years ago I went to find my old place and thank goodness for street signs. Nothing looked the same.
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85_Ranger4x4
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Usually GMRS amongst our group, CB to listen to trucker chatter on the road.
A year or two ago I was stuck at construction in my Ranger so I flip the GMRS to scan to see if I can overhear any hints from the construction crew about the pilot car status (actually usually works) and I was getting two guys talking west of Omaha, like over an hour away if they were being honest about their location. I was kind of surprised by that.
A year or two ago I was stuck at construction in my Ranger so I flip the GMRS to scan to see if I can overhear any hints from the construction crew about the pilot car status (actually usually works) and I was getting two guys talking west of Omaha, like over an hour away if they were being honest about their location. I was kind of surprised by that.
FrenchieXJ
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I do not have a GMRS radio, but is a CB radio can transmit a 2 meter signal out and bounce off of the Ionosphere and back to earth I would think the same is true with GMRS. I know that they have days every year where the world of ham operators spend time talking around the world to each other. I am sure we have people on here that they know far more then I do. It has been almost 30 years since I studied this information.
85_Ranger4x4
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I assumed it was something like that, I don't hear about it much with GMRS though. Guy was coming in as clear as a bell.
FrenchieXJ
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When looking at the picture in the first post, I noticed something. I did not know they were still using the early model of communication. The Pepsi cup with the string to another cup. I give that person a lot of respect, on the ability of keeping the string tight while driving keeping a clear line of communication going!
Are the cups and string Simplex only?
May your brain keep going as fast, as your wheels keep rolling!
Are the cups and string Simplex only?
May your brain keep going as fast, as your wheels keep rolling!
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