Recommendations for CB/uhf radios?

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Looking to outfit the harvest fleet with radios. Thinking Motorola or kenwood. Was thinking all handheld if they have 12v chargers so I could easily move between equipment year round. Would like at least couple of handheld ones for the grain truck drivers. Anyone have favorites? What kind of range do they have?

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Good to have a couple of hand helds for quick local comunication ,but reach is poor and batteries are expensive to keep up, so in mobile equipment, wired ones,absolutely.

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Depends on range you need,Midland  work for us great

Small in cab unit works with gmrs radio hand held

Different watted for different ranges

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Wired is the way to go brand not as important most  work well. Handheld a for the most part trouble,  range is poor spend the money once . You will never regret going wired ask your dealer he can set you up with a couple systems that are quickly transferable between some less used equipment. I have had both but just my opinion have a great day.

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Hand held are nice for short range when moving or hooking up heads. For actual field use hard wired units are the way to go. 
We use midland gmrs units. Have had great results. If you watch Midlands outlet store website you can get some decent prices.

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Tried the handheld route few years back. Ones I had were hard to hear and always left on and dead.  Ran some cheap wired ones in and way better.

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I would recommend the wired in ones! We run a couple handheld kenwoods they r nice radios but the range is poor! Sometimes won’t even reach across a quarter section!

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I would recommend wired ones. We have used  a bunch of different brands. We have found Kenwood to be the best bang for our buck. Motorola has the most features and maybe a bit more toughness. But not worth the large price premium. We have a couple handhelds for things like moving  cows or setting combines but everything else is wired. We  put antennaes and coax on every piece of equipment and just move the actual radios on some of the lesser used pieces of equipment. We have found range is often an antennae or coax problem rather than the radio. I would go uhf or vhf rather than gmrs or cb for much greater range and privacy

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Handhelds are half a mile range, with a wired one the truckers will let the cart know when they leave the elevator which at times is 35miles away. I've bought used wired ones at northwind radio in lloydminster for less than half what a handheld is worth

Call (844) 200-FARM

Recommendations for CB/uhf radios?

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