You are probably correct about UHF CB. Although it's surprisingly easy and cheap to pick up 5W handies and 50W mobiles that will work just fine on the PMR446 channels (all 16 of them ). UHF CB can and does work very well, just check out the Australian and New Zealand UHF (80 channel) CB service. It's more popular than the 27MHz CB down there. The antennas are MUCH smaller, look much less obtrusive and work just as well for mobile operation. Sure, you don't get the upper atmospheric skip conditions with UHF CB, but that is a bonus if you want to use CB to talk to locals.needle bender wrote:vhf/uhf...cb radio...not in my life time thats for sure..934 was'nt brilliant but stolen away from cber's for profit. history now so not worth discussing...446, well with the specs that go with that its fun for the kids only...and clowns who like climbing mountains and coming back down with yarns of a 50 mile copy..I do remember having a set of 49 or 50 meg radios as a kid put out about 10 milliwatts or so, good for a few hundred yards only.but with no pretentions of anything more...
Although, to be honest, there are so few hobby level CB'ers left in the UK, we're probably better of concentrating on 27MHz CB. Especially as we are about to see a whole load of new FM/AM/SSB kit coming from China/Korea.