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NE Alberta | Previous posts all have good info, but I might add:
-We use UHF without any trunking and it is fine for the distances we need. It is MORE line-of-sight than VHF so will bend over hills less. In our hilly terrain we barely get 5 miles reliably, and 10 miles in perfect terrain. If your base antenna is high you will be able to reach much farther with it than mobile to mobile.
-When we got ours years ago (in Canada, in our area), if you got VHF you would almost certainly have had to share your frequency with other users, while with UHF you normally did not share.
-While with todays equipment it may be less a factor, UHF was thought of as being less susceptible to interference and other degrading factors (overall more reliable within it's shorter range than VHF). That is why many essential services (ambulance and police) use UHF with trunking (with the high towers you get long range, reliable operation).
-UHF radios are sometimes slightly more expensive.
-UHF radios us shorter antennas, and if you use antennas that require a ground plane, the ground plane required is much smaller.
You may want to check on what frequencies are available in your area before making a decision. | |
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Uhf/vhf radios which are better
