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    Is an 80 channel uhf worth buying

    Seeing as most talk is done on anything lower than channel 40 trucks, 18 for caravans
    and 10/15 for everyone else etc etc . Is it really worth having an 80 channel UHF.
    I do own one but its in my camper as a home base unit.
    How many acually use the higher channels??
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    Aren't they around the same price anyway? Why not go the new system?

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    Yes it is. Way of the future. Your not still using VHS are you threedogs, or are you?
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    why would you when you communicate ok now
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    I have a 80 channel unit I scored through work, but ill never bother to fit it unless my current 40 ch UHF dies.

    I only really use my UHF for social outings (groups of friends in 4x4s),when in groups, you are always restricted to use 40 channels if just "one" person in the group does NOT have a 80 channel unit, I think this will be the case for many years to come, as UHFs last for years and years, and most people wont bother replacing a perfectly working UHF.

    Any other time I go to use my UHF, I get the s#*ts with all the stupid chatter (ch 7 etc), so i end up turning the UHF off in favour of listening to a CD
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    Quote Originally Posted by 04OFF View Post

    Any other time I go to use my UHF, I get the s#*ts with all the stupid chatter (ch 7 etc), so i end up turning the UHF off in favour of listening to a CD
    One of the features of the new radios addresses that problem with each channel having the ability of being broken down into about 100 others. I don't know all the tech stuff but an agreed predetermined code set by all your party and you won't hear anyone else on that channel.

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    I have an old Uniden 40ch in my car, it works perfectly so I have no need to change it.
    It's never been a problem for me but if everybody I went driving with wanted to use the higher channels I would probably update.
    For now I will keep what I have.

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    One of my radios allows me and my friends to select as eg say channel 15.7
    we can hear others but they cant interupt our conversations.
    VHS ?????
    Yeah why throw away a perfectly good UHF
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chubba View Post
    One of the features of the new radios addresses that problem with each channel having the ability of being broken down into about 100 others. I don't know all the tech stuff but an agreed predetermined code set by all your party and you won't hear anyone else on that channel.

    Its not about getting interrupted during a conversation, its only annoying for me when im travelling by "myself" and the UHF is on "scan" mode.

    In group usage, we just find a free channel at the start (with no tossers), and normally the group convoy is close together and talking so much with each other , its quite rare to get interference from other party's.

    On my current UHF I can actually set it to ignore individual channels, or just scan certain channels, but in reality, its too much dicking around to set this up while driving, and say if I set it to the Trucker channel, there is often too much swearing (if you have kids in the car) and a lot of rubbish talked ,so off it goes again.
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