Love my GME 1W Handhelds. Great little units, USB rechargeable, good range for a 1w unit, good battery life and very light and easy to use. Also love my GME TX3100 which was purchased originally as a Plug & Play kit but have since upgraded the antenna and hard wired it into the car. Just wanting to upgrade my 2nd in car radio to a GME XRS one of these days
Great share Tony-have just bought XRS for the car and a 2watt handheld for the friends who tag along with no UHF/navigator/Ngkala chat! GME is just super quality gear!
Depends on the person, if you are not too savvy with installs we would recommend using an auto-electrician to do the install and ensure it is done correctly!
Hi all just looking for a two-way for long distance as most of our driving is outback a lot of flat roads .as I have Pajero sports and not a lot of room in cab which CB would suit any advice welcome
Hi Dwayno, For this we would probably recommend a hideaway unit like the XRS-330C to keep as much space as possible in the cab, this would be paired with a higher gain antenna like the AE4702B or AE4018BK1 depending on conditions. If you give our friendly team a call on 1300463463 with some more info they will be able to advise a specific set-up!
It's hard to give a km range due to the variable on what the antenna it is paired with, the environtment around and more. But note the PNP solution has the same output power as the rest of the fixed mounts.
I've seen other videos about CB radios in Australia, I've seen also who use the 27mHz. which band is best used? first I was, as non Australian, a bit confused seeing CB radio on UHF, then I read that it was the frequency assigned. but just now I seen RUclipss from about a year old where they use 27mHz
@@GMEaus will it not cause unsafe situations, if someone goes out in the middle of nowhere thinking he has a way of communicating and than finding out that people in that area use another frequency band. still looks a bit weird to me that there are 2 types of free frequencies both called CB🤔
@@wilfredprins9718 not really. UHF CB is extrememly popular in outback touring and we always recommend that people take multiple means of communication, be it a PLB or Sat Phone as a back up.
UHF CB should absolutely be your first "CB" band choice. Its a "system" - than a mere radio band, think repeaters, etc. The UHF CB channels used here in AUS, are also used in NZ. Service is legal to use in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, see also Malaysia, (Fiji, Tonga, etc). US GMRS should NOT be used here in region,- owing frequency allocation issues. (ACMA/NICTA) 27MHz is fine for dedicated enthusiast folk, but do absolutely fit UHF CB as well, as during weather emergencies (floods, fire, war) it is the go to band for local communities, - when mobile phone services go extinct, - after a cyclone or ECL - East Coast Low, in bushfires. With 27MHz (HF) - you have the potential for "skip", - those DX long-range skywave contacts - that go hundreds of kilometers, out to thousands. NOT guaranteed. Legal 27MHz modes in Australia are AM and SSB. FM mode, is not yet authorised under our Class License (as at Dec 2024). It has that 'capture' effect, its nicer to listen to - car to car, car to base - than say traditional AM and SSB modes. As with many UHF CB service radios, some 27Mhz units have the CTCSS/DCS, a feature that operates on FM mode. These are privacy codes; you choose an *unallocated channel*, then set a code of choice - for all your family or farm/business radios. What you then get is a "quite channel", and it stays that way until one of your identically programed radios calls, only then will you hear anything, even if a non coded radio is just outside broadcasting, it'll stay quite;- must have that code! With (HF) 27Mhz, groundwave - is your local use range, (slightly different to UHF's frequently described "line of sight"), it will go around/over close by hills or mountains - a tad more efficiently than UHF. "A few kays away and my UHF signal is full strength, I take a particular hairpin turn, and within a few hundred meters that signal has dropped right out, gone. The 27Mhz FM signal also drops right down, but its still usable along the windey valley, it stays low in signal - but level - for most, but not all the way to the next town a few kays away". Here on that journey, the CTCSS/DCS will either lock onto that Code, or if not - your radio goes dead quite. Now, even with FM and CTCSS/DCS - you still get that background 27MHz 'noise' - the noise, static - embeds itself into the received, now much weaker in signal strength - FM (and other modes) - when your listening to your other, - say base station. 27Mhz aerials typically involve much larger aerials than UHF. An issue for many vehicle installs. Understand that CTCSS/DCS used on any band, is NOT radio signal encryption, anything your radios broadcast, is understood by other CB's not using CTCSS/DCS, you just won't hear them, unless you change channels - where your CB reverts to being a CB once again! Go back to your CTCSS/DCS programmed channel, and all goes quite once again. I can have a base in Papua New Guinea, and here in NSW - I could use say FM and its CTCSS/DCS feature on 27Mhz, and make near daily DX contact, but it is and forever more, will be a noisy band - with varying signal levels of darned noise, thus actual signal usability varies - for both local and DX. Therefore, Mr, Mrs, Ms Human Being, are much better advised to fit UHF CB in this region of Earth. On both bands, the 'emergency channels" are government allocated at law, 05/35 on UHF and 09 on 27Mhz. If SHTF - that is when they'll come alive. Stay off them, unless . . . Basic road channel is 40, this includes PNG. Note that its common for road users on the Pacific Highway - SYD to BRIS (M1/A1) to use 29; done - to free up other adjacent roads of this busy route, from unnecessary radio talk on 40. Exit the Pacific Highway, go back to 40. Call Channel is 11. Note the repeater channels, stay off the repeater inputs altogether.
Love my GME 1W Handhelds. Great little units, USB rechargeable, good range for a 1w unit, good battery life and very light and easy to use. Also love my GME TX3100 which was purchased originally as a Plug & Play kit but have since upgraded the antenna and hard wired it into the car. Just wanting to upgrade my 2nd in car radio to a GME XRS one of these days
Great share Tony-have just bought XRS for the car and a 2watt handheld for the friends who tag along with no UHF/navigator/Ngkala chat! GME is just super quality gear!
Tony's beard is still on point.
Hey Tony, love the Beyond Blue coloured HandHeld UHF on the shelf behind you
You’re onto it mate 😉
Do most people install them themselves or get them through an electrical dealer that sells these products?
Depends on the person, if you are not too savvy with installs we would recommend using an auto-electrician to do the install and ensure it is done correctly!
Hi all just looking for a two-way for long distance as most of our driving is outback a lot of flat roads .as I have Pajero sports and not a lot of room in cab which CB would suit any advice welcome
Hi Dwayno,
For this we would probably recommend a hideaway unit like the XRS-330C to keep as much space as possible in the cab, this would be paired with a higher gain antenna like the AE4702B or AE4018BK1 depending on conditions. If you give our friendly team a call on 1300463463 with some more info they will be able to advise a specific set-up!
Tony, does the PNP unit have approx 15kms reception?
It's hard to give a km range due to the variable on what the antenna it is paired with, the environtment around and more. But note the PNP solution has the same output power as the rest of the fixed mounts.
An old 4500 is one of the best they made....
I've seen other videos about CB radios in Australia, I've seen also who use the 27mHz.
which band is best used?
first I was, as non Australian, a bit confused seeing CB radio on UHF, then I read that it was the frequency assigned.
but just now I seen RUclipss from about a year old where they use 27mHz
Hi Wilfred,
Majority of people use UHF CB so we would recommend using that over 27mhz.
@@GMEaus will it not cause unsafe situations, if someone goes out in the middle of nowhere thinking he has a way of communicating and than finding out that people in that area use another frequency band.
still looks a bit weird to me that there are 2 types of free frequencies both called CB🤔
@@wilfredprins9718 not really. UHF CB is extrememly popular in outback touring and we always recommend that people take multiple means of communication, be it a PLB or Sat Phone as a back up.
UHF CB should absolutely be your first "CB" band choice. Its a "system" - than a mere radio band, think repeaters, etc.
The UHF CB channels used here in AUS, are also used in NZ. Service is legal to use in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, see also Malaysia, (Fiji, Tonga, etc). US GMRS should NOT be used here in region,- owing frequency allocation issues. (ACMA/NICTA)
27MHz is fine for dedicated enthusiast folk, but do absolutely fit UHF CB as well, as during weather emergencies (floods, fire, war) it is the go to band for local communities, - when mobile phone services go extinct, - after a cyclone or ECL - East Coast Low, in bushfires.
With 27MHz (HF) - you have the potential for "skip", - those DX long-range skywave contacts - that go hundreds of kilometers, out to thousands. NOT guaranteed.
Legal 27MHz modes in Australia are AM and SSB. FM mode, is not yet authorised under our Class License (as at Dec 2024). It has that 'capture' effect, its nicer to listen to - car to car, car to base - than say traditional AM and SSB modes. As with many UHF CB service radios, some 27Mhz units have the CTCSS/DCS, a feature that operates on FM mode.
These are privacy codes; you choose an *unallocated channel*, then set a code of choice - for all your family or farm/business radios. What you then get is a "quite channel", and it stays that way until one of your identically programed radios calls, only then will you hear anything, even if a non coded radio is just outside broadcasting, it'll stay quite;- must have that code!
With (HF) 27Mhz, groundwave - is your local use range, (slightly different to UHF's frequently described "line of sight"), it will go around/over close by hills or mountains - a tad more efficiently than UHF.
"A few kays away and my UHF signal is full strength, I take a particular hairpin turn, and within a few hundred meters that signal has dropped right out, gone. The 27Mhz FM signal also drops right down, but its still usable along the windey valley, it stays low in signal - but level - for most, but not all the way to the next town a few kays away". Here on that journey, the CTCSS/DCS will either lock onto that Code, or if not - your radio goes dead quite. Now, even with FM and CTCSS/DCS - you still get that background 27MHz 'noise' - the noise, static - embeds itself into the received, now much weaker in signal strength - FM (and other modes) - when your listening to your other, - say base station.
27Mhz aerials typically involve much larger aerials than UHF. An issue for many vehicle installs.
Understand that CTCSS/DCS used on any band, is NOT radio signal encryption, anything your radios broadcast, is understood by other CB's not using CTCSS/DCS, you just won't hear them, unless you change channels - where your CB reverts to being a CB once again! Go back to your CTCSS/DCS programmed channel, and all goes quite once again.
I can have a base in Papua New Guinea, and here in NSW - I could use say FM and its CTCSS/DCS feature on 27Mhz, and make near daily DX contact, but it is and forever more, will be a noisy band - with varying signal levels of darned noise, thus actual signal usability varies - for both local and DX. Therefore, Mr, Mrs, Ms Human Being, are much better advised to fit UHF CB in this region of Earth.
On both bands, the 'emergency channels" are government allocated at law, 05/35 on UHF and 09 on 27Mhz. If SHTF - that is when they'll come alive. Stay off them, unless . . .
Basic road channel is 40, this includes PNG. Note that its common for road users on the Pacific Highway - SYD to BRIS (M1/A1) to use 29; done - to free up other adjacent roads of this busy route, from unnecessary radio talk on 40. Exit the Pacific Highway, go back to 40.
Call Channel is 11.
Note the repeater channels, stay off the repeater inputs altogether.
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