Thread: Which UHF for RRS ?

Originally Posted by DoctorJ

I personally went GME over icom as they are Australian made which I believe is important. The 2 units have very similar features but as stated the icom unit has a speaker in the handset however for $30 you could get an external speaker (which I don't believe is necessary) so it shouldn't be a deal breaker. For the best deals checkout Prestigecom.net.au Your No1 Australian Destination for Twoway Radio, UHF CB, GPS and Wireless Communiations you can buy bundle packages as well (cb and aeriel) and it took 2 days to arrive. This is my 2nd GME unit and haven't had an issue so far.

Best of luck

Cheers
Julian

I can second that on he deal, on the good Dr's recommendation I bought mine online from Prestige and it was by far and away the best deal I could find, bought a GME with the controls in the handset in a bundle with an aeriel. Haven't installed yet so can't say anything about the unit, but the price and speed of delivery were great.

I'll see what I can get it for locally, think there's a place in Frankston selling them but if not I'll give Prestige a call. Thanks for the recommendation.

Hey guys,

Did anyone have a close look at the GME plug & play UHF?

I don't have the need for a permanent/hard wired uhf but something better than my hand-helds would be nice when I do go away

I know the ariel won't be as good, but for me probably ok...

Originally Posted by Rohan

Hey guys,

Did anyone have a close look at the GME plug & play UHF?

I don't have the need for a permanent/hard wired uhf but something better than my hand-helds would be nice when I do go away

I know the ariel won't be as good, but for me probably ok...

I'm very interested in responses to this one. I go away in a convoy once a year and just need something for car to car chat. The whole messing around in my D4 to install something permanent isn't where I want to go at this point.

GME have a 5W handheld (TX6100) which comes with a small hand mic/speaker. I used one until I got around to installing a fixed unit. No issues as far as communicating with a travelling convoy. Comes with a charging dock but you need to separately purchase a cig. Plug to use with it.

ICOM also does a waterproof handheld that has a remote mic/speaker you can add on, as well as a battery replacement (powers the unit directly rather than charging battery) that you plug into the Aux power socket.

Have a remote head GME in my current setup, but decided to go with the portable unit for the D4.

I just bought extra mounting brackets for my Icom 440 and just move the radio from car to car - an I never leave it in the vehicles in case it gets knocked off. Takes about 30secs to unplug the aerial, mic, power and radio from the car and about 1 minute to put it in its cradle and reconnect.

But then my cheap $85 5w FDC handheld works quite well as well.

Garry

Hello Rohan,

I use a GME BX730 which is a commercial version of the GME 6100.
The BX730 may have user defined frequencies programmed. This was helpful for myself as I sometimes go to sites using frequencies outside of the Open Band.

Anyway I have found the BX730 to work well in convoys but the aerial in the weakest link.
I shall install a external aerial one day to help with this.

NTB