Communications Equipment / Radios
Who has CB/ ham/ or radio scanners in their vehicles, and why? I've been considering the three for a while, and ended up ordering a CB setup last night. I don't have a ham license and don't want to...
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jshupe wrote:
For those of you who do ham radio, I have some questions.
I'm going to work towards getting my license. I currently have 2x CB antennas (Firestik 4') and 1x Firestik 4' scanner antenna that will be mounted on my truck. Firestik makes an aesthetically matching antenna for ham, but it happens to be single band only. How big of a deal is single vs dual band? I suspect that dual band opens up a ton more possibilities...
With that being said:
If single band is sufficient, what radio should I get?
If I should look at dual band, do you know of any antennas that look similar to Firestiks?
If not, do you have any recommended antennas that are not mag-mount?
if you intend to work VHF and UHF (2-meters and 440) then a dual band antenna will be fine. I'd look for a collinear type antenna as the need for a ground plane is less important or a good quality glass mount antenna. a glass mount will be a compromise in terms of efficiency and performance but then so will a "traditional" dual band antenna that requires some sort of actual ground plane mounted on a fiberglass body RV. either way you likely won't break any distance records with the radio but, at least for me, that's not the goal.
