UHF hand held???

DandS · Senior Member

UHF hand held???

Santa · Guru

Evening all, I'm looking to buy a UHF hand held for use by SWMBO when reversing the KEA into parking area's etc, suggestions as to brand, power, availability etc would be appreciated. biggrin

beachball57 · Senior Member

hi mate for that short distance you'd only need a 1 watt hand held,, i have a pair of 2 watt hand helds that i use in my pilot vehicle from time to time and i got them from dick smiths about 120.00 i think,, go for ones that take aa batteries as the other ones with built in battereis always seem to be flat just when you want to use them

milo · Guru

we have a pair of uhf, hand helds from uniden, got them from dick smiths..
been good so far

Dougwe · Chief one feather

One watt is fine but one word said the wrong way and that might not be fine. smile

Knightrider · Senior Member

I have a couple of 2 watt GME UHF handhelds for that reason & they are rechargeable on 3 AA batteries. Had them for many years & paid no more than $87 a unit. Good value as they are very useful talking to trucks etc when travelling.

Beth54 · Guru

I'm not particularly happy with mine. Sorry, can't remember the brand and the car's up the hill, so not going to have a look. My kids gave it to me. I use rechargeable batteries.

It only has a range of a couple of kms, which is fine by me, but I can only get a couple of words out and it beeps and 'they' can't hear me. I've had several people look at it and can't find what is causing it.

I think I'll be looking at fitting the other sort next year.

But, a handheld will probably be fine for your needs Santa.

rocan · Veteran Member

just bought 2 oricom 1 watt from big w($78) for the same reason.should stop a few arguments.
rocan

Santa · Guru

Thanks for your replies people, sounds like I'm no orphan in the reversing communication saga, anything to keep the peace.
I've got a 5 watt Uniden in the van so a low power hand held should solve one of our problems.