Most of us have camped in places with no cell reception or tv reception for that matter and each time we are taking a chance hoping that nothing will happen. What can we do if we need to reach some one in the outside world while camping in a remote location, for us we have always carried a set of GMRS radios maybe we could reach someone on these but doubtful.
If we are using our Jeep and our popup camper we have a 10 Meter Ham radio in it that also works on 11 meter (CB) channels we have a much better chance getting out with it.
And we have always carried a Baofeng UV-82 Dual band handheld ham radio that we used while on trips with a local 4X4 club, so I bought one more of them so me and the wife could communicate while I was away from camp and I added a rooftop antenna for on the camper to extend its range. I will do a write up when I install it. I have heard transmissions form Georgia on it while in my front yard here in Montana on it.
I also have 2 CB radios at home right now that I am not using so I will put 1 in the pickup and the other in the 5th wheel so I bought a NGP (no ground plane) antenna for it since we have a fiberglass sided trailer and it is a 4 ft model which as a general rule of thumb with CB's for every foot of antenna you can get 1 mile of range so we would have 4 miles give or take unless we got some atmospheric skip.
I will add a cell phone booster at some point but with those you still need a nearby cell tower, but my ultimate plan is for a dual or quad band ham radio for the most reach.
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