CB Radio
I am about to leave on a 4 day trip from Florida to Banff National Park and I have been getting RV ready for last 4 weeks. I used to full time in it but have been in brick house for last 2.5 years. ...
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Bumpyroad wrote:No. 5 W in doesn't make 5 W out. Amplifiers are not 100% efficient, which is why the final transistors are on heat sinks.mike-s wrote:
Close. The old ones had a limit of 5 W input to the final amplifier. When they went to 40 channels, they changed that to 4 W output (AM).
that was when I thought I remembered also. so if you were in the market for a used CB, an old 23 channel would have 25% more power than a 40?
They had roughly the same power, it's just measured differently.
