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Don't matter if you use FM or AM. 1w AM is there or thereabouts the same as the FM due to how AM works...

Hi,

I have just fitted a multi band CB radio in my 4x4 and I wish I had saved my money as there are no one about, anywhere! I used AM CB radio when is was illegal in the 70s and into the 80s when FM was legalised. So I thought I'd fit one in my truck, I already have Amateur radio in there. What a ...

Hi,

I have just fitted a multi band CB radio in my 4x4 and I wish I had saved my money as there are no one about, anywhere! I used AM CB radio when is was illegal in the 70s and into the 80s when FM was legalised. So I thought I'd fit one in my truck, I already have Amateur radio in there. What a ...

I very nearly bought this rig...

TEAM RoadCom-FS

It's a DIN fitting rig, so is large, I could not find a suitable location in my Terrano, so ended up with a PolMar Venus - http://www.thunderpole.co.uk/mobile-cbs ... venus.html from Thunderpole - thanks guys =D>

As I have a new CB radio, the way I understand it, if I am in the UK I must use the UK band. If I used the EU band and use the AM freq I am breaking the regulations??

Thanks Andy... 8)

Thanks for your answers....

What about these...

1) I know it is multi band and that in theory, being in the UK you should be using the UK FM bands, but does anyone 'stray' off onto the AM bands?

2) Also things have changed regarding CB and from listening on the UK FM bands, I hear very few ...

As I said in my introduction, I have used CB from the 70s (AM :lol: ) through to the mid 80s, when I got my Amateur licence. Just lately I fancied getting a CB and I have now bought a Polmar Venus CB radio. I know it is multi band and that in theory, being in the UK you should be using the UK FM ...

Hi,

Name here is Steve, QTH, just north of Ipswich, Suffolk.

I started to use CB in the 70s, AM of course, then through to 1981 when it went legal. I stopped using CB in the mid 80s, but now have a hankering to get another CB. Eventually I bought a Polmar Venus from the guys here at Thunderpole ...