Thanks Intense , I have several friends that are also getting this radio and our thoughts were maybe getting a little more range with SSB as opposed to just AM and possibly less radio traffic for our chatter .
I'm still trying to find out if there is really much difference in Talk and Receive range as well .
I guess my thinking is if I were ever to get into any kind of emergency off the trail out in the boonies with no cell signal , that having SSB and regular CB would offer me ways to get help .
For that kind of money, you could buy a good 2-meter ham radio that would have a lot more local radio traffic and tons of repeaters to use also.
The last (and only) time I ever used SSB on the cb bands was in Alaska 33 years ago, before I had my ham license. It would go 20 miles in perfectly flat terrain, but 2M ham will do better than that with much better voice quality any day of the week.
Thanks 1911 , I may look into the Ham license in the future but for now this will probably be what I get . They sell a power supply to turn it into a base station as well so if I went Ham that would work well for me .
I just wanted to find out if the range was better on SSB .
1911 , do you have any links for someone looking to get into Ham for beginners ?
Thanks Intense , I think after reading some on wiki that the 2 of you have more wisdom than I , lol .
So I'm just going to gather all the info for the Technician test and get a 10 meter radio and be done with it once , instead of spending for 2 radios I can always get a cheap cb for the trails .
Well after all the hype of ham I bought a Ranger rci 2970n2 and am very happy with the results so far .
Ive made some DX contacts as far away as Canada and can still keep in contact with the locals very well
I'm sure you got it figured out by now. SSB is a more efficient way of talking. Usually the upper end of the band is where you will find SSB mostly LSB. With a quality radio SSB will sound just as good if not better than AM. There is always talk of 2m radios doing more, yeah they do have more RF output but everybody forgets about the lower frequency will go farther easier. The VHF/UHF has more attenuation than 27mhz.
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