What kind of Cb

**Poorboy** · 12-31-2009, 11:43 AM

I too have a Cobra 29 with the Weather Channel, Connix Board and Galaxy Finals which Include Echo and Talk Back! Shoulda saved my Money on the Echo and Talk Back cuz I Don't Use them Hardly Ever Unless there's a CB Rambo or Pervert Out there that I Have to Get Over, Other Than that I Don't use them! Nice strong Radio Running Barefoot!!

**Dakota** · 12-31-2009, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by danthewolf00

i've got the cobra 29 with weatherchannel with a 40watt mod so i can hear 60 to 70 miles out.

Can you put a mod on any CB, not sure if I want to hear 60 to 70 out but a little more than mine would be nice, at least 10 to 15 miles, this would cover most of Fort Wayne

**Dakota** · 12-31-2009, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by Heffard

What about the handheld CB's? My employer won't let me install a cb in the truck. Wouldn't use one a lot. Could a handheld do ok?

I was told only "lot lizards" use handhelds

Before I got mine permantley installed I used an old cigarette lighter plug in I had and ran the two wires to it. It worked fine.
Velcro and a cigarette adapter, then get a magnetic attenna or if you can(depending on truck) a permanent attenna, mine attaches to my passenger side mirror bracket. Not wanting to drill holes my wire runs down the door and then underneath the front bottom corner of door, and since the passenger door is not used much, that is why I ran it there, less wear and tear on the wire.

**LDB** · 12-31-2009, 01:06 PM

Watts do not equal reception (hearing). Watts only equal illegal and annoying. Reception range is a function of antenna quality, cable quality, mounting/location quality and radio receiver quality/tuning. You can only "hear" what reaches the antenna. That is a function of the power (watts) of the other guy's radio, not yours. I wish every CB running illegal power would fry itself at 12:37 p.m. so those running legally wouldn't be interfered with. Find a good CB shop and get the best quality cable, connectors, antenna etc. and you'll hear as well as you potentially can. Don't screw up your radio with a bunch of silly junk or an amplifier. If you can find a good shop that can truly "tune" the radio go for that. Tuning it insures the transmission is made in the exact center of the frequency and not off at the edge. Cobra and Midland are as good a brand as any to start with and only sell legal radios, a plus in my opinion. If you want to talk 40 miles away, or 4000 miles away, study and get a ham radio license. You can literally talk around the world with it.

**greg334** · 12-31-2009, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by Heffard

What about the handheld CB's? My employer won't let me install a cb in the truck. Wouldn't use one a lot. Could a handheld do ok?

This is what you need;

A-1 Telecom, Inc.

It is a slip seat box with cutouts and a place to mount the bracket.

Buy a radio that will work for you, don't worry about things like the number of knobs or fancy display. Don't worry about used either, some of the older radios are a lot better than the new ones. The Antenna and a very good coax is the key here, not really the radio, so spend the money on a good antenna, try to focus on what the gain of the antenna is and stay with a name brand.

As Leo said, go to a good shop, have them tune the antenna on the truck (HINT a good shop will tune it on the truck and without your radio) and then get the radio looked at. A LOT of people will claim that you have to tune the antenna to the radio or something like that but the fact is that isn't near the truth. The placement of the antenna, the transmission line (coax) and even the connector matters more when tuning the antenna.

You don't need it peaked and sorry to correct my fellow HAM, the likeliness of it being off frequency is slim so I would make sure that the received is touched up a bit. I only know of one shop that waxes the slugs for trucks, he claims that the vibration causes them to move and the wax keeps them in place.

Stay away from echos, fancy accessories and a the typical cr*p that they sell, the same goes for the fancy radios with the freq counters and printed covers - it doesn't do a thing for you.

**roadman** · 12-31-2009, 09:00 PM

Each driver has there own preference on radios, its really what your looking for. Me for example, I have a galaxy 33 hml,
With a 250 watt linear, all hooked to a browning antenna. Needless to say I can get out 15 to 20 miles. On days with a skip its done over 100 easy.
I would recommend to stay away from the three numbered galaxy radios there not good.
Look into galaxy radios made by RCI, there the best. I had used cobra 29s and there ok. But if your around a lot drivers talkin
back and forth, and you need to get out, power is what you need.

**LDB** · 12-31-2009, 09:00 PM

I should have said tuning will make sure both transmission and reception are exactly on frequency and as Greg said, getting all the reception pieces from antenna tip to radio internals right is your best bang for the buck.

**skyraider** · 01-10-2010, 09:11 PM

I have an old Uniden , vol knob, squelch knob, and channel knob only,,,,,,,,,yes Im using world war one technology,lol, but the darn thing works, and I hear where all the wrecks are and smokeys are located from all the over zealous truckers. I don't talk on it,,just listen off and on, 99 % of the time im on xm radio .................sky Yes my male ego wants a fancy dancy cb radio,, but my wallet says nooooooooooooooooo,,,spend it on food clothing and van maintenance,,,amen.........