07-23-2010, 09:39 PM
(07-23-2010, 12:15 PM)Chazman321 Wrote: Radios vary by price for numerous reasons... Better materials aside you have the options of a regular CB or one with SSB (single sideband). Instead of 40 channels, you have 40 AM channels and 80 SSB "channels". The higher the price of the radio, the more bells and whistles you get.
My radio has a built in SWR, modulation, power, and RF meter. It also has talkback (if you really want to hear how you sound on the radio, I keep that option turned off. One feature I do use is the roger beep when I'm talking SSB, when you're done talking it gives a little beep that way the people you're talking to know you're done speaking. It comes pushing 4 watts, but a simple 2 minute turn of a variable resistor and I push about 25 watts on AM and about 45 on SSB... Is it legal? No. But i figure if the FCC ever asks to inspect my equipment it wouldn't be hard to turn them almost all the way down into legal power again... lol
-Chaz
What make/model?
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