Midland 75-785 Handheld CB Radio
|  | $30.21Availability: 199 In Stock
Condition: NewSKU: 75-785
UPC: 046014757851
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7-watt input and 4-watt output with built-in electronic microphone
Automatic noise control with squelch
Bright, easy-to-read LCD screen with low battery indicator
External speaker jack, charge jack and accessory jack
Uses 9 AA alkaline or rechargeable NiCd batteries
Includes full size microphone with 4-pin screw on connector, DC power cord, mounting bracket, hardware, and user's manual
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Customer ReviewsReviewed on 2008-07-08 
Not Obsolete
This comes in handy when traveling. Mobile phones still have their limtations. But with Citizens band radios you have no limits. |  | Reviewed on 2008-06-24 
Great price but weak power even with external antenna
This is a reasonable product for the price. I liked that I could power it with the included car adapter without any batteries required. With the small attached antenna, it seems the range from inside a car is probably only a few hundred yards. So I bought a magnetic roof mounted antenna at Radio Shack for $35 (I later saw one at a truck stop for $20), plus a $5 adapter to convert the normal CB antenna plug to the smaller plug on the Midland. This improved reception, I'm estimating to about a mile radius (my estimate is based on conversations I hear from truckers in the opposite direction on the freeway; at 60 mph (so about 120 mph differential speed), a conversation comes in and then fades out in about 1 minute total. But a 1 mile radius is still pretty pitiful for a CB, you really don't hear much of the chatter even on a busy truck freeway like the I-10 between California and Arizona. And transmission seemed even weaker; I couldn't get anybody from the opposite direction to hear me, but rather only people a few hundred yards in the same direction. So in short, if you want something to chat with a caravan buddy, two of these would likely work fine and are a great price (and you don't have to mess with batteries like with many newer handheld two-way radios). Add an antenna if you want the bare minimum ability to communicate with truckers. For anything more, you have to lay down more bucks for a much more powerful CB radio that can blast a signal and can pick up signals much farther away.
For those who buy a CB for their kids to have fun on family road trips, be aware that some truckers have really really foul mouths (I have a very high tolerance for those things, and even I think some of the things a few drivers say are just downright gross). It can still be fun, but be ready to turn down the volume! | | Reviewed on 2008-06-05
Hand Held CB
Even driving on the freeway with trucks around me no one could pick me up. I could only hear talk from a few hundred feet away. | | Reviewed on 2008-06-02
good but bad range indoors
this product works well but your range is bad if 1 is indoors and 1 outdoors no range inside vehicles. uses not much batt. power | | Reviewed on 2008-05-19
Handheld CB
Good price, and very practical and helpful for bringing along in whatever vehicle you're using to learn about traffic problems, etc. | |
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