Thread: Aldi UHFs back on sale

Originally Posted by 87County

5W is the max you are supposed to use

Thanks. Displaying my absolute ignorance I know, but I have a pair of 1W handhelds that seem to have a useable distance only slightly larger than a pair of yogurt pots and string.

Originally Posted by sheerluck

Thanks. Displaying my absolute ignorance I know, but I have a pair of 1W handhelds that seem to have a useable distance only slightly larger than a pair of yogurt pots and string.

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Originally Posted by sheerluck

Thanks. Displaying my absolute ignorance I know, but I have a pair of 1W handhelds that seem to have a useable distance only slightly larger than a pair of yogurt pots and string.

Originally Posted by 87County

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Don't you mean?
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as opposed to .. ~ ~ ~ ~


Thanks for thinking of me Ian and Muddy!!


Maybe they'll only transmit in "european"?? and I don't want any of their european air either! (so there!!)


Bloody Aldi why won't they open here?

They could close down the 'stockholm syndrome' mob and use their store??

Cheers!!

Is it right that some Aldi products are just versions of products made by major manufacturers and sold under other brand names?

My Aldi 9500lb winch ($399) looks exactly like a noted brand X ($900+). It's had a fair bit of use one way or 'tuther although mainly used for pulling logs out of places I can't get the tractor so probably only pulling 900-1200kg but it's still a fair drag along the ground. It's pulled the "Cruiser ute it's on effortlessly in loose sand when I was forced off a track by an 80kph ******!

Given that the market for UHF cb radios is basically only Aus and NZ it's pretty hard to see Aldi building their own.

Regards,
Tote

Really? They dont use them anywhere else? I didnt know that. I wonder why not? Do the yanks still use AM?

(Ive got a stack of AM CB radios down the shed from past installations back in my youth before they invented the internet for talking to strangers)

Originally Posted by 87County

5W is the max you are supposed to use

5W is the statutory maximum, and, given a halfway decent antenna/installation, will give good reception to the horizon, which is as far as you will get with any power on this frequency (perhaps a little more by forward scatter). I regularly receive transmissions from the fire brigade at Cook's Gap over a hundred kilometres from here - we are both on hills (and have base station antennae), so the horizon is a long way away.

There used to be an ultralight pilot who regularly used our channel while flying, and we got good reception from him at similar distances. I have, on occasion, got good two way communications using a 1W handheld at close to 100km from a light aircraft to a ground station.

The only reason for using higher power than 5w is to talk over the top of other CB users.

John