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Midland 75-785 Handheld CB Radio | 
 enlarge | Brand: Midland
Category: CE
List Price: $69.99
Buy New: $28.00
You Save: $41.99 (60%)
New (48) from $28.00
Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 1293
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7 x 2.1 x 1.8
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 75785
Model: 75785
UPC: 046014757851
EAN: 0046014757851
ASIN: B00005Q4ZV
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Midland 75-785 Handheld CB Radio
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| Features:
| • | 40 channels | | • | 7 watts input/4 watts output | | • | Automatic noise/gain control | | • | High/low power switch | | • | Lighter socket adaptor |
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Amazon.com Product Description
This handheld CB radio comes with seven watts of input and four watts of output (the FCC maximum allowable.) This model is 33% smaller than its predecessor. Other highlights include: automatic noise control, automatic gain control, a bright LED display, high/low power switch and a flexible antenna. This mobile radio operates on nine AA batteries. Battery saver circuitry helps saves energy; there is also a 12V DC lighter socket adaptor included to help save batteries. What's in the Box
One 75-785 CB radio and a user's manual.
Product Description
Midland is a world leader in wireless two-way and weather/hazard alert radios, with an extensive line of land mobile radios, CB, GMRS and FRS radios, MURS radios, weather-monitor alert radios, itinerant radios and a line of quality antennas and accessories.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 ok for some things July 31, 2008
they look great but our two way GMRS radios get better range then the cbs
 Not Obsolete July 8, 2008
This comes in handy when traveling. Mobile phones still have their limtations. But with Citizens band radios you have no limits.
Great price but weak power even with external antenna June 24, 2008
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!
 Hand Held CB June 5, 2008
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.
 good but bad range indoors June 2, 2008
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
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