Quote Originally Posted by timbo2410 View Post
There is quite a price difference between icom and GME ... ??
That is because Icom is sort of a "crossover" between reccy and amatuer/commercial equipment so Icom is a next step up in quality again and is essentially a derated commercial set.
Icom sell a gazillion more commercial comms and amatuer band units than reccy.

Most commercial brands (Motorola etc) don't market UHF CB for a variety of reasons.
Commercial or licenced bands if you prefer have a higher allowable power output for example (25 watts usually).
Because of that a lot of manuf make programming dongles for commercial sets harder to obtain so CB dudes have trouble hacking their freq's/power.
That is also the reason why so many of the Chinee sets are illegal in Oz, they can all typically be reprog'd by the owner to transmit on higher than allowable power so don't pass our regs for CB use.