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I hardly ever hear any ham radio person say over , or out. we do say things such as clear on Your final, clear, or monitoring. But otherwise we just talk normally for the most part. Most repeaters have a roger beep, that way we know the thing is working. ORIGINS OF HAMSPEAK, CQ, 73, DX, etc.

:ditto: on T. Highway , about the power, ALL mobile Ham radios come with power leads long enough to go directly to the battery to get rid of noise and voltage drop, and they have both a power lead and a matching ground wire and BOTH are fused at the battery.....

Coax, the wire hooking the radio to the antenna, differnt kinds have different signal loss rated in db (decibels of loss per 100 ft) remember every 3 db of loss cuts Your signal in half. You get what You pay for. Antennas , also have a db rating same rule applies a 3 db antenna should have...

Ditto on Cobra and antenna, also the longer the antenna the better, the shorter coiled firestixs and such cut down on the range of the antenna.