C B Radio

Thank you Guyjax. Now what's a good antenna? I want to get out there.

It's going to depend on the swr's and the type of reflection there is. Those can only be measured with a meter. The lower the swr (standing wave ratio) the better. Mine is 1 and 1.2 that is the swr for channel 1 and channel 40 respectively. About as good as you can get.

Antenna type does not matter so much as long as it gets low swr's. Steel whip of course for better reception.

Never use anything that can with the truck. Seriously. Even run your own power cord to the batteries. And that includes the antenna coax.

What is the range of these cb's and how much useful information do you really get on them. I feel like they would be populated with random chatter to the point it would be useless.

What is the range of these cb's and how much useful information do you really get on them. I feel like they would be populated with random chatter to the point it would be useless.

Oh you have your useless chatter on there but there are way to adjust the radio so you don't hear it as much or as often.

I always run my radio. Always. Now I may have it set so I only receive a mile or two from me but I run it.

I have been saved from running head first into stand still traffic in Tennessee. Without warning I could have came around a curve in the road at 65 mph and smashed into stopped traffic due to an accident. Some roads in Tennessee have complete blind spots. I have avoided major traffic backups and was able to take detours and save a lot of time due to 20 miles backups. Happens a lot during the summer. Just recently I was able to take the toll road around Denver (470) to avoid 25 South into Denver and I had less than 2 hours on my logs that day.

One thing I hate is coming into traffic backups and people asking what the hold up was or what lanes are open even though construction signs have being flashing lanes closure for 15 miles and drivers have been warning people for 30 miles on the radio.

But it seems now a days people just love to have headphone on or ear buds in while driving which is highly illegal.

Thank you Guyjax. Now what's a good antenna? I want to get out there.

It's going to depend on the swr's and the type of reflection there is. Those can only be measured with a meter. The lower the swr (standing wave ratio) the better. Mine is 1 and 1.2 that is the swr for channel 1 and channel 40 respectively. About as good as you can get.

Antenna type does not matter so much as long as it gets low swr's. Steel whip of course for better reception.

Never use anything that can with the truck. Seriously. Even run your own power cord to the batteries. And that includes the antenna coax.

What's better the Wilson trucker 2000, 5000 or that Big open air coil by K40?

Thank you Guyjax. Now what's a good antenna? I want to get out there.

It's going to depend on the swr's and the type of reflection there is. Those can only be measured with a meter. The lower the swr (standing wave ratio) the better. Mine is 1 and 1.2 that is the swr for channel 1 and channel 40 respectively. About as good as you can get.

Antenna type does not matter so much as long as it gets low swr's. Steel whip of course for better reception.

Never use anything that can with the truck. Seriously. Even run your own power cord to the batteries. And that includes the antenna coax.

What's better the Wilson trucker 2000, 5000 or that Big open air coil by K40?

All depend on what the swr readings are. And that depends on the truck you drive/will be driving. All three of those are good

I have a really old school Cobra radio lying around in my garage when I get my own truck I'm going to put it in

I have the Cobra 29 LXBT. Works great!

Antenna, I run dual FIRESTIK

Dittos on the Cobra. Mine does the job.

For under 100 you could get the Cobra 29 LX CB Radio. It's rated #1 here http://www.squidoo.com/best-cb-radio in terms of the price. It has a nice timer, watch, and alarm feature that I've found handy.