Yes, i am in rural Southwest Victoria. I am currently running a discone on 2
Metres which is about 5 Metres above ground.
The closest 2 Metre repeater is approx 100Km line of site and has big
problems with RX, as such i cannot access it with my current antenna. I have
a 20 element yagi on UHF CB with a repeater to the Southeast and us locals
use that repeater to communicate as we have for years, and its our local
link, still, at this stage. So, we're not all surrounded by repeaters in our
back yards in this corner of this state and the terrain isn't all flat
either, our town is built on the Glenelg river and fortunantly i live a
little higher than the centre of town. We still have non amateur friends on
UHF CB and like to keep in touch with them. I pitty those that use UHF CB
repeaters in or near cities, usually it's a waste of time talking on them
but there are SOME good operators there as well. "in the sticks" we use them
for proper conversations instead of kids trying to overpower each other.
Maybe thats why you are wondering why i still want UHF CB

Gary


"Ed" wrote in message
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I was wondering why you need the chook band when you have 2m and 70cm,
2m and 70cm seem like they are half way to CB here, certainly the
lingo is strongly CB.



I don't know about your location, but the need for CB can be quite valid,
even for a ham, in many places. My location, as numerous others, has a
lot
of logging activity, and if one is driving on some of our back roads, it
is
quite helpful to hear where the logging trucks are.... they commonly
announce their presence on dangerous parts of these roads. There are many
other instances in rural areas where CB can be helpful, too.


Ed K7AAT