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Having a CB radio while traveling may be an priceless tool for emergencies and for keeping up on road conditions, and the Midland 75-820 40-channel handheld CB is one you ought to unquestionably consider. It comes with everything you need to get started in a hurry, including a battery pack for times you want to run the unit on six AA batteries and a cigarette lighter adapter for battery-free operation in your car.

The Midland 75-820′s design is ideal, with a push-to-talk button on the side, squelch and volume knobs, and a little LCD screen that displays the current channel, signal strength, and a potpourri of other utile information. Several buttons on the device may be applied for scanning, whether quickly flipping amid the emergency channel (9) and the general highway channel (19) or activating the LCD’s backlight. The unit likewise comes with a short, flexible antenna.

Overall, the 75-820′s portability is excellent–comparable to a child’s walkie-talkie. Unfortunately, the unit’s compactness hampers it is usefulness, because the comparatively little antenna has a hard time pulling in distant signals. In our tests on local highways and on the interstate, transmissions seldom could be heard from more than half a mile away. However, when we connected the Midland 75-822 to a whip antenna that was various feet long, the range increased considerably. As a result, we commend laying out capital in a better antenna before using the device in your car, altho the radio still works well for communication with nearby semis when you’re attempting to find out the source of a traffic jam.

We had better luck using the radio to monitor National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather Radio broadcasts, which we were competent to receive from almost anyplace since Weather Radio stations transmit at much higher power than mobile transmitters. These broadcasts are repeated each few minutes, are modified each few hours, and may help alert travelers to severe weather conditions. It’s a nice feature to have on a portable CB and makes the Midland 75-822 a standout choice for travelers who want to be in the know. –T. Byrl Baker

Pros:

• Truly portable
• Car adapter kit included
• Ability to monitor Weather Radio is a nice touch

Cons:

• Short antenna dramatically cuts down on range

Having a CB radio while traveling may be an worthful tool for emergencies and for keeping up on road conditions, and the Midland 75-820 40-channel handheld CB is one you will have to unquestionably consider. It comes with everything you need to get started in a hurry, including a battery pack for times you want to run the unit on six AA batteries and a cigarette lighter adapter for battery-free operation in your car.

An priceless tool for emergencies and for keeping up on road conditions.

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156 of 165 persons found the following review helpful.
Full Feature, outstanding price
By A
All the complaints I’ve read regarding this scanner are pretty pointless. This is the best Hand Held scanner I’ve ever owned. Go to Sears or Best Buy, see what HH CB’s they have in, Probably just one, the Cobra 37 ST. Does that have channel scan, 5 memories, memory scan, freq. display, REAL mobile adpater not just a car power cord, NOPE. How much do they want? $40 in Best buy, and get this, $79.99 in sears, check their website.

The difficultnesses with range come with any handheld. I do not see the problem, take any hand held in a car and it is range will go way down, But midland is only company that provides you with an external antenna hookup/power cord combined and make your radio the size of most mic’s, you can not go wrong. The best you’ll get from others is a DC power cable, but no way to connect an external car antenna to it. and they will still be full length.

You could likewise MOD this unit to pick up 120 channels CB (all you need to do is solder one connection…) if your more experienced, you may mod it to pick up 400 channels (dont believe me, try a search engine and type “Midland CB Mod”…

This scanner is the BEST on the market, and I can not belive the price. Would be nice if it has USB/LSB but hey, you can not get everything. It covers all the bases.

56 of 56 persons found the following review helpful.
Compact, reliable, outstanding battery life
By E. JOHNSON
I couldn’t be much happier with this unit. Where it genuinely shines is in battery life. I’ve applied this in respective 4×4 competitions and my teammates use a great deal of much larger, clunky handhelds that require 10 batteries and eat them up quick (several sets in a weekend). I use 6 nicads in my midland unit and they last and last.

Its a beauteous decent mobile unit too with the adapter. With an external antenna the range is tremendously improved. My only real complaint is that I wish that there was a way to lock the backlighting on when using the car adapter – this would make it more comfortable to use at night.

50 of 52 people found the following review helpful.
compact and versatile
By A
This is a very compact, well designed, and versatile unit that may be effortlessly moved from one vehicle to another or used as a handi-talkie. The number of utile features and sensitivity of the receiver enjoyably amazed me. With an external antenna, I found the NOAA weather band usable with broadcasts 50 miles distant and the CB effective at five miles. Adjacent channel selectivity is rather good. Perhaps the only limitation in this unit is the comparatively low audio output that might require near greatest or most complete or best possible volume when the windows are open at highway speeds. But, audio quality is very good with no distortion even at greatest or most complete or best possible volume.

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