Subj : Wannbe HAM
To   : JIMMY ANDERSON
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Sun Sep 18 2016 01:44 pm

 >-=> Tony Langdon wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-
 >
 >-=> JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-
 >
 >JA> Here in the US it's still 40 channel CB's sold in truck stops, etc. I
 >JA> assume that's a local thing?
 >
 >TL> Yes, UHF CB was one of those uniquely Aussie things.  Other countries
 >TL> now have UHF CB or similar, but ours is still very unique - we have
 >TL> repeaters, for one thing. :)
 >
 > Repeaters for CB! WOW!


Stop thinking about 11 metre CB frequencies, instead think of 450MHz UHF ones.

The cost of an 11 metre duplexer would be horrendous, not so with a 
70centimetre one, not to mention the physical size and gain of the relative 
antennae.





                       .....Bob


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