I had CB"s for a couple of years, worked very poorly. In 1980 I bought the first two mobile Johnson PPL6000 units- about $800 apiece then. Soon they went to automated mfgr so as I bought more units the price came down to about half. These are UHF-FM, over 490 frequency. Call Guard is a separate frequency that "unlocks" our radios when calling, so we hear only ourselves, no one else hears us, unless a mike is left unhooked. I built my own tower, and at 70 feet, no repeater, can typically call home from a vehicle at 40 miles. One mobile to another (tractor to pickup), have talked almost 25 miles. Portable is a Maxon brand, about $500, and have talked with that while driving, over 20 miles. Terrain here is slightly rolling, mostly open farmland. Maintenance has been little, always the same mobile unit. I"ve seen similar setups at farm auctions where you can get multiple units (same frequency) for about $100 per unit. Motorola and Johnson have the biggest market share because of their dependability. Safety issue when driving a machine or vehicle: easier to grab a mike and talk than use a cell phone.
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Today's Featured Article - More Memories of a Field Service Engineer - by Brian Dye. Introduction: The author worked for one of the largest Ford tractor dealerships in England as a trouble-shooter on tractor engines, hydraulics and combine harvesters from 1963 to 1972. In 1972 he became a dealer manager and finally left the dealer net in 1975 to run his own electronic design and manufacturing company. [Editor] We live right in the middle of Norfolk. The dealership that I worked for sold Fordson Tractors from the 1920's and some of t
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