Darn, TURN OFF THE BACKGROUND MUSIC! It is beyond me why UA-cam content creators think playing background music over their voice is somehow enhancing their videos, it is not, it is distracting and extremely annoying. We came to hear you, not to fight background music. Many folks have hearing difficulties, thus while concentrating on your voice they must also concentrate on tuning out the music; frustrating. Your background music ruins an otherwise exceptionally good presentation.
Super narrow fm is superior over Am mode ,what Uniden is lacking is ctcss/dcs sub tones on its cb sets vs president and wouxun cb models for fcc use. A feature thats almost becoming standard now on European cb radios. QRM noise free blocking using ctcss or dcs sub tones,Uniden need to add this feature to AM/FM sets. Uk and Europe have had fm mode a while now.
I find it distressing to hear a professional organisation such as Uniden use a term like AM frequencies when talking about using AM v FM on CB radio. It suggest they are seeing new frequencies when in fact they are seeking to have us use FM in place of AM on the same frequencies.
I see that In Law Enforcement Comms. Dept's want to Encrypt their Freq's or Trunking and they knock themselves out of the ability of InterOperability with other agencies within their jurisdictions. You made a very smart statement here.
FM requires more TX power due to having a wider bandwidth than AM. Suggestion request duplex frequencys and ctss tones from the fcc to enable the installation of FM CB Repeaters on 27Mhz CB Radio.
Manufactuers should include CTCSS/DCS as routine for FM mode. Such, would particularly suit home base and family car setups. Here, you can have CTCSS on, squelch off, volume up and the radio will stay dead quite, UNLESS it receives the tone you've set. Means not having other unwanted signals and noise breaking squelch at home and thus disturbing home life, you can have a quiter home!. Bear in mind that CTCSS/DCS is not encryption, so what you broadcast, is readily understood by other operators, you just wont hear them. Manufacturers could include say a few "memory" slots so you can enter a few channels and assign differing codes to those. CTCSS should not be used on any recognised "road/highway channel", nor on Channel 09 (09/19), or on the SSB call channels 38 and 35, latter used outside Continental US.
If you read the old CB magazines from the 1960s, quite a few manufacturers had tone squelches available either as accessories or standard equipment. They were popular with the business and industrial users. But as the band became a form of social media the B/I users tired of the constant interference and moved to the FM business radio service. CTCSS has been used in VHF/UHF ham radio as an interference reduction tool for the past 50 years. It prevents skip signals and intermodulation from opening the repeater. When used in a mobile or portable it prevents microprocessor-produced interference from opening the squelch. But the usage patterns for CB are vastly different than they were 50 or even 60 years ago. Cell phones have taken over the function of inexpensive communication for families. One could argue that they have taken over the social media function as well. That leaves short-range communication and wannabe ham radio as the primary users. Transportation will never go FM because of the sheer number of AM radios still in use. The local slag pit will never change because of the short distances involved. They just turn the squelch up to eliminate interference. With the band opening, I hear a lot of FM coming from south of the border. But American operators have no compelling reasons to move to FM. Channel 9 was useless due to high-powered Puerto Rican stations since the beginning of the service but the Banana Boys, with their constant high-powered shootout stations, have made channel 9 useless for anything. Nobody monitors the channel anymore, and calling 911 via cellphone is far more reliable. The "emergency channel" designation has long outlived its usefulness.
From playing around with it myself, yes. I’ve transmitted with FM to AM radios and the guys said they could hear what I was saying.How well, idk. Would distance have an affect? Idk.
Yes, CB folks will have to buy a new radio with FM on it. AM does not talk to FM and vice versa so you must have FM transmit and receive also. BTW, don't forget single side band, SSB. For full function radio you'll need all three modes built in.
FM the noise is under the squelch ots still there sun noise engine noise , noisy distributor ect. Ford ect AM jelps you realize you got noise but any cobra 25ltd will have a great NB no activity in my big city on FM nonine uses it also no skip on FM
Going back to the 1960s, CB was supposed to be inexpensive, so AM was chosen over FM. Public safety and commercial services embraced FM and its inherent advantages in the 1950s. CB today is basically a low interest hobby radio service, with transportation needs sprinkled in. Cell phones are doing the job that CB radio was intended to do. My local slag and gravel pit uses channel 1 for yard work, and they use AM only. They don't need FM because they're all less than 1/2 mile away.
Cell phones and the Internet are very fragile things - and someone else is always in control of those forms of communication - We basically have permission to use them CB/GMRS/Ham - not so much All that's needed is power and an antenna Prepare accordingly
Its not really a review its really just stateing facts about the differences between am and fm they really should have included single side band though
sur une radio de cette taille avec toutes les fonctionnalités, je pense que ce sera agréable de ne pas avoir à prendre une taille DIN pour avoir un bouton de réglage de la puissance tx et rx et un bouton de gain du micro sur la radio ou le micro et que c'est une très belle radio mais beaucoup de gens veulent et ont besoin du bouton de réglage de puissance rf rx tx dans l'émetteur-récepteur radio de petite taille et la taille din n'est bonne que pour les camionneurs et l'entreprise doit toujours faire la taille din car presque tous les camions sont construits pour recevoir déjà une radio de taille din peut-être quelque chose en 2024 un la société a créé une radio qui sur 27 MHz comme noise gate nb anl rf tx et rx power ajust bouton et inclut ctss et dcs ...avec ton scan ..... le projet de loi du président s'adapte bien dans une très petite voiture ou sur un quad atv peut-être que quelque chose peut ce sera un peu plus gros qui inclura toutes les fonctionnalités que je viens d'écrire et la mention prendra une avance majeure dans la vente par rapport à son concurrent dans le futur dmr + cb radio advance go advance mindland, unidend ou laissez le président cb obtenir 95% du marché dans les 5 prochaines années probablefutur. com visualiser le futur à distance
Fm definitely has better sound quality if you have a strong signal am is readable with weaker signals and ssb is better still and is allowed more power
FM is only good for a few miles unless you have a big Burner. FM CB has been a thing in the UK for decades and it is crap compared to AM for range, which is why a lot of UK truckers have am/fm illegal sets with burners and use them. The UK govt is a terrible at most civil liberties. Stick to AM if you're doing distance and only get FM if you are local all the time. FM is a lot clearer and doesn't suffer interference like am so these are the facts.
Sorry but that's wrong, FM will generally outperform AM on distance with the same output power. We've been using FM legally in the UK for over 40 years, hardly anyone uses AM but people have done extensive testing and in almost every situation, FM will travel further than AM and sound clearer.
FM has proven to be more reliable than AM. Also the useful or usable signal comes beyond AM on 10~12 meter band. AM suffers terribly from all kinds of interference and noise, which sometimes makes intelligibility at a distance impossible. FM is much more reliable in that regard.
FM mode is superior to AM, cleaner, easier listening than AM, so is great truck to truck/car etc. Manufacturers should include CTCSS/DCS for use with FM.
Darn, TURN OFF THE BACKGROUND MUSIC! It is beyond me why UA-cam content creators think playing background music over their voice is somehow enhancing their videos, it is not, it is distracting and extremely annoying. We came to hear you, not to fight background music. Many folks have hearing difficulties, thus while concentrating on your voice they must also concentrate on tuning out the music; frustrating. Your background music ruins an otherwise exceptionally good presentation.
WHAT?! 👂
Yeah it's quite loud!!
Im one of those guys that cannot hear if ANY background noise is going on. Sorry i cut the video off.
It's there just to Piss You Off.
Super narrow fm is superior over Am mode ,what Uniden is lacking is ctcss/dcs sub tones on its cb sets vs president and wouxun cb models for fcc use.
A feature thats almost becoming standard now on European cb radios.
QRM noise free blocking using ctcss or dcs sub tones,Uniden need to add this feature to AM/FM sets.
Uk and Europe have had fm mode a while now.
I find it distressing to hear a professional organisation such as Uniden use a term like AM frequencies when talking about using AM v FM on CB radio. It suggest they are seeing new frequencies when in fact they are seeking to have us use FM in place of AM on the same frequencies.
So - when will you make a drop in replacement for the 520XL? Needs to be the same size so I can do a direct replacement.
Well it's actually the same frequncy, modulation type is different....
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I see that In Law Enforcement Comms. Dept's want to Encrypt their Freq's or Trunking and they knock themselves out of the ability of InterOperability with other agencies within their jurisdictions. You made a very smart statement here.
FM requires more TX power due to having a wider bandwidth than AM. Suggestion request duplex frequencys and ctss tones from the fcc to enable the installation of FM CB Repeaters on 27Mhz CB Radio.
Manufactuers should include CTCSS/DCS as routine for FM mode.
Such, would particularly suit home base and family car setups. Here, you can have CTCSS on, squelch off, volume up and the radio will stay dead quite, UNLESS it receives the tone you've set.
Means not having other unwanted signals and noise breaking squelch at home and thus disturbing home life, you can have a quiter home!.
Bear in mind that CTCSS/DCS is not encryption, so what you broadcast, is readily understood by other operators, you just wont hear them.
Manufacturers could include say a few "memory" slots so you can enter a few channels and assign differing codes to those.
CTCSS should not be used on any recognised "road/highway channel", nor on Channel 09 (09/19), or on the SSB call channels 38 and 35, latter used outside Continental US.
If you read the old CB magazines from the 1960s, quite a few manufacturers had tone squelches available either as accessories or standard equipment. They were popular with the business and industrial users. But as the band became a form of social media the B/I users tired of the constant interference and moved to the FM business radio service.
CTCSS has been used in VHF/UHF ham radio as an interference reduction tool for the past 50 years. It prevents skip signals and intermodulation from opening the repeater. When used in a mobile or portable it prevents microprocessor-produced interference from opening the squelch.
But the usage patterns for CB are vastly different than they were 50 or even 60 years ago. Cell phones have taken over the function of inexpensive communication for families. One could argue that they have taken over the social media function as well. That leaves short-range communication and wannabe ham radio as the primary users.
Transportation will never go FM because of the sheer number of AM radios still in use. The local slag pit will never change because of the short distances involved. They just turn the squelch up to eliminate interference.
With the band opening, I hear a lot of FM coming from south of the border. But American operators have no compelling reasons to move to FM.
Channel 9 was useless due to high-powered Puerto Rican stations since the beginning of the service but the Banana Boys, with their constant high-powered shootout stations, have made channel 9 useless for anything. Nobody monitors the channel anymore, and calling 911 via cellphone is far more reliable. The "emergency channel" designation has long outlived its usefulness.
Can my old AM CB radio understand the new FM CB radio transmissions?
From playing around with it myself, yes. I’ve transmitted with FM to AM radios and the guys said they could hear what I was saying.How well, idk. Would distance have an affect? Idk.
No it cannot
Yes, CB folks will have to buy a new radio with FM on it. AM does not talk to FM and vice versa so you must have FM transmit and receive also. BTW, don't forget single side band, SSB. For full function radio you'll need all three modes built in.
FM the noise is under the squelch ots still there sun noise engine noise , noisy distributor ect. Ford ect
AM jelps you realize you got noise but any cobra 25ltd will have a great NB no activity in my big city on FM nonine uses it also no skip on FM
Plenty of skip on FM here
Wrong, FM will skip just as well as AM!
- Have had FM Aust to GB, AUS to NZ.
I've used all kinds of Uniden s in my trucks and cars since 1980s.. NEVER ANY PROBLEMS AND I RUN 1000 WATTS!!! EXCELLENT RADIOS
1000 watts?! Is that legal?
@@BoilersRockno
@@BoilersRock
It does not use 1000w
if they build one with SSB I will buy one. but not until then. and they may not.
Uniden BC980 has SSB
Wow.😢
Going back to the 1960s, CB was supposed to be inexpensive, so AM was chosen over FM. Public safety and commercial services embraced FM and its inherent advantages in the 1950s. CB today is basically a low interest hobby radio service, with transportation needs sprinkled in. Cell phones are doing the job that CB radio was intended to do. My local slag and gravel pit uses channel 1 for yard work, and they use AM only. They don't need FM because they're all less than 1/2 mile away.
Cell phones and the Internet are very fragile things - and someone else is always in control of those forms of communication - We basically have permission to use them
CB/GMRS/Ham - not so much
All that's needed is power and an antenna
Prepare accordingly
@@VicGreenBitcoin Pretty much.
I want a review from a REAL person not a company that wants to sell radios!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its not really a review its really just stateing facts about the differences between am and fm they really should have included single side band though
Why do companies or people compare anything?😀
sur une radio de cette taille avec toutes les fonctionnalités, je pense que ce sera agréable de ne pas avoir à prendre une taille DIN pour avoir un bouton de réglage de la puissance tx et rx et un bouton de gain du micro sur la radio ou le micro et que c'est une très belle radio mais beaucoup de gens veulent et ont besoin du bouton de réglage de puissance rf rx tx dans l'émetteur-récepteur radio de petite taille et la taille din n'est bonne que pour les camionneurs et l'entreprise doit toujours faire la taille din car presque tous les camions sont construits pour recevoir déjà une radio de taille din peut-être quelque chose en 2024 un la société a créé une radio qui sur 27 MHz comme noise gate nb anl rf tx et rx power ajust bouton et inclut ctss et dcs ...avec ton scan ..... le projet de loi du président s'adapte bien dans une très petite voiture ou sur un quad atv peut-être que quelque chose peut ce sera un peu plus gros qui inclura toutes les fonctionnalités que je viens d'écrire et la mention prendra une avance majeure dans la vente par rapport à son concurrent dans le futur dmr + cb radio advance go advance mindland, unidend ou laissez le président cb obtenir 95% du marché dans les 5 prochaines années probablefutur. com visualiser le futur à distance
So the manufacturer makes a fortune
turn the music down!!’
Company propaganda, No real tests, nothing.
Rubbish comment ,have you actually tried FM mode?
What? 🤡
Im a ham operator they were just comparing am and fm they should have included ssb since all 3 modes have their pros and cons
Fm definitely has better sound quality if you have a strong signal am is readable with weaker signals and ssb is better still and is allowed more power
Please re upload this without the music as it distracts from the narration !
If you'd turn up the background music you're video would be even better... 🙄
FM is only good for a few miles unless you have a big Burner. FM CB has been a thing in the UK for decades and it is crap compared to AM for range, which is why a lot of UK truckers have am/fm illegal sets with burners and use them. The UK govt is a terrible at most civil liberties. Stick to AM if you're doing distance and only get FM if you are local all the time. FM is a lot clearer and doesn't suffer interference like am so these are the facts.
i like FM
FM has better range compared to AM
Sorry but that's wrong, FM will generally outperform AM on distance with the same output power. We've been using FM legally in the UK for over 40 years, hardly anyone uses AM but people have done extensive testing and in almost every situation, FM will travel further than AM and sound clearer.
FM has proven to be more reliable than AM. Also the useful or usable signal comes beyond AM on 10~12 meter band. AM suffers terribly from all kinds of interference and noise, which sometimes makes intelligibility at a distance impossible. FM is much more reliable in that regard.
FM mode is superior to AM, cleaner, easier listening than AM, so is great truck to truck/car etc.
Manufacturers should include CTCSS/DCS for use with FM.
Stop with the music
That stupid music stopped me from watching this video.