Transmission and reception with the included rubber ducky antenna is horrible, and probably the source of most of the negative reviews this CB gets - do not plan on transmitting or receiving at anything remotely like a usable range with the stock antenna from inside a vehicle.

It should be providing significantly better reliability on its products based on the very high numbers of negative reviews here on Amazon.

Many of the negative reviews here have to do with connecting this transceiver to bad antennas

Before I purchased this hand-held radio, I read all the negative reviews about it.

and don't worry about those bogus reviews, this is a nice CB for the modern car.update: I did a radio check on ch 19 yesterday and it was 6.5 miles from me.

I'm not sure why a few give it negative reviews as it has never failed me on my bike

I hesitantly took a gamble on this one based on the good reviews, as I thought such a small, compact unit could never be as good as an actual large hard wired unit.

If you're planing on using this on a daily basis I would recommend getting a regular CB if you have the room for it (I don't think a trucker would be happy using this every day).Responding to the negative reviews that say something

I will break down this review in 3 sections, highlighting the major aspects of owning a 75-822.

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I don't like to give bad reviews but this simply did not work for my husband at all

Based on the percentage of bad reviews (one or two-star), it looks like I have about a one in 8-10 chance of getting another bad unit.

The antenna works well as far as I