"Geo" wrote in message ...
Any recommendations on either? Purpose is purely weather alerts,
traffic updates while we travel (which is fairly frequently). Thanks in
advance.

I've used the 75, and I wouldn't recommend it. The squelch is utterly
useless. I've found that if you adjust the squelch just above the noise
level, it has a tendancy of cutting out signals that you should be able to
hear as well (within a few miles), so you're basically stuck with either
listening to the white noise of squelch all the time, or only hearing the
strongest stations (s7+). There's many different CB's that come in that
handheld/mobile format, just do a search on the net (google.com is a good
place to look). I know there's one that comes with the remote mic/controller
and you can snap that into a battery and put an antenna on top of it and
walk around with it as a handheld. I think it's a Cobra model.