I Turned On My CB radio In 2023 And THIS Happened!!!!
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Ah man when I was a kid I loved my CB. My dad put a huge tower next to our house so I could use it. I had CB friends and we played CB games and even got together for potlucks. This was the late 70's and early 80's. Thanks for the nostalgia!
In the early 70's, at the peak of CB radio, I sold, installed, and repaired CB radio's. I had SSB radios brought to me for tuning after hearing another one I had tuned, and one radio held from Virginia to Oregon because nobody else was allowed to touch his radio. Truckers for the most part were active and polite. In the 80's I put a Motorola radio (my favorite) in my car and the truckers were plentiful, but vulger and I took the radio out. Recently I installed another radio in my car for use on the hiway and the truckers, while there, are very silent unless there is something they need to know. I find it interesting how things change over time.
You have GPS now that we did not have back in the 70’s, You can get GPS that tells you where the Police/Radar are setting up, You have Cameras that are forward and rearward facing … There are several that make RUclips Videos with the cameras … Everyone has a Cell Phone … with all the scammers and such I am not convinced a CB is a good Idea … I took Mine out … Want to know about Road Closures and Traffic in front or behind you … Google Maps shows all that …
@@jas8256 How does that work? At one point, I uploaded red light cams to a Garmin Nuvi, but it required people to upload the locations to an enthusiast site. The experts then converted that to points of interest. Then you downloaded and installed. It means stuff was maybe weeks behind being current.
In the 70s they sold emergency CB radios to carry in your car. The one we had was kind of like a walkie talkie that plugged into the cigarette lighter for power. A few times we did use it to ask for traffic conditions if we were on interstates and headed for known bad traffic areas. One time we were south of Richmond headed north and eventually got traffic reports relayed from around Fredericksburg, this being on I-95.
By the late 80s or so when I was driving I never used it because truckers had gotten rude like the OP said. Long since lost that thing.
I’ve analyzed WHY drivers don’t use the cb like we used to.
There are a few logical reasons.
1) GPS , like the fellow above mentioned
2) Satellite radio gives drivers umpteen listening options
3) cell phones.. people can’t function anymore without them
4). TEAM DRIVING. That’s the big one. Team driving has exponentially increased, and along with the other reasons above , they keep the cab silent so the sleeping driver can rest.
Could you do some repair videos?
Me and all my buddies in high school had CB radios in our trucks back in the 1980's those were good times.
Back in the 80s the cb was a very popular thing. All my friends had one in their car or truck. It was a lot of fun. As an adult and a prepper im seriously thinking about getting back into it 😊
Definitely, the prices are close to what thay were back then,I picked up a bear cat
The early 80s
Hi from Australia guys, CB and Ham/amateur radio are alive and well here, I'm a little north of Sydney near a city named Newcastle and the locals here are always chasing skip and we constantly hear and talk to the U.S from here, especially Flordia and Hawaii. I'm always listening on 38 aor 35 LSB, CB is rapidly becoming as it was in the 1980's when there was lots of propogation and world wide commuications was possible, we are currently climbing to the peak of the cyle again.
You’re picking up what’s called Skip. Very common. I love CB radios back in the 70s. They were the best way to communicate.
Yes I know I have been doing this since I was 9 and I have Been a ham operator since 2002
@@HamRadioConcepts ,,,, Is a license required for 2 meter?
@@davidleatherneck Yes
@@davidleatherneck you do need a license, but it is not difficult to study for and pass the test. Higher licenses take a little more effort, but once hooked you will keep going. I have been licensed since March, 1962 and still enjoy the hobby.
Retired over the road trucker, got my first CB back in 71 or 72. It was a Pace 123, 23 channel. Going on 79 yrs old now, and I've still got a CB in my pickup truck. They will install a CB in my casket, when I'm dead. Pizz on the FCC and the DOT.
One day cell phones will be out and cb radio will be used.
I'm thinking the same way
Ahh, I have 3 CBs and I never use them. Probably been 10 years since I hooked them up. Not really interested in talking to truckers. They’re just not very interesting. If my phone went down I’d see it as a blessing and just enjoy the silence.
@randyj8834 You never know but silence is nice too.
Ham radio will be used even more.
Please be tomorrow.
All depends on the region; there are areas where a c.b. radio is still heavily used (rural areas) and then there are those areas where it is not (city areas), I can say as an OTR trucker for the last 30 years there is a decline in the use of c.b.'s on the road and this has led to major issue, like major traffic accidents. Myself and many old timers in trucking still run c.b. and I will always have one up and running.
I still run my CB (Tweaked Connex) in my rig (semi) and consider it an important tool.
There’s A LOT of trash talk and Chatty Cathys but its kept me out of a lot of problems on the road.
Love those connexs
...Candy cane?...Candy cane?...it's me, Rusty Nail...
My CB handle was Soggy Biscuit. I got it from a trucker at 4:00 AM trying to get home for the Holidays.
He was talking to another one who told him to drive careful and get some sleep.
He said he would and said he was so tired he felt like a soggy biscuit!! 🤦
I’m 54 this year and in the 80s I had a York JCB 863 CB ……… They were the best times in the UK to be on the air, I was also a member of a club (this may sound crazy today) called D.A.R.T (Distress, aid and rescue teams) that monitored the air waves 24/7 for people in need of assistance
CB Radio is like old fashioned party line telephone
I bet most don’t know what that is. I remember my grandparents having that in the 70’s
I remember us being on a party line telephone when CB was really taking off in the early 1970s. I was just a kid then. Tried to no avail to get my Dad to buy us a CB radio. He never did. I still don't quite understand why he didn't. I was crazy about radio in those days. Still like it but only fire up a radio every now and then when the radio bug bites me. I really need to invest in some base station gear and an amp to do a little DX work. Long distance always fascinated me. The ability to pick up a mic and talk to a random person on radio several hundred miles away is still like magic.
Lower and Upper Side Band are where all the action is.
It's been that way since the 70s.
In the 70s I had a base station in Saginaw Michigan with Willson 500 dual beam antennas! On a good night I could talk skip to South America!
That's not just a CB. It's a side banded radio. That's how he's able to get all of those and depending on the time of day, he's getting skip traffic. ✌️
I had a Colt 1600. My brother had a President Grant. Started off with a Cobra straight 40. It’s all coming back now.
When a major disaster hits and takes out the cell towers, the ham radio operators come on the scene.
Been there, done that, but there were no cell phone towers to loose. 3 days working communications for the Red Cross.
CB Radios are making a comeback!!!!!
Typewriters are making a comeback!!!
Flip Phones are making a comeback !!!!
Sewing Machines and learning how to splice and braid rope and tailor clothes are making a comeback!!
How our grandparents gotten through the 1920 - 30's Economic Depression, their grandkids want to learn from them, because those who knows those skills will survive 😉.
What's Old Is New Now !!!
oregon trail.
horse drawn buggies.
steam ships crosssing the ocean.
meazles,tb.
Mozes crossing the red sea.
Beatles getting back together.
cb is super use full on the highways. last two road trips i ran an old rat shack and k30. 1st trip i hit a highway stoppage, fired up the radio and got a response from a trucker about a lane closure up ahead, 2nd trip, was just listening and found out the exit i was about to get off on ahead had a traffic jam.
I wish cb was still busy like it was years ago in the uk,hardly anyone uses it now here
I'm an old ham, I bought a couple of CB radios for nostalgic purposes, but I haven't been using them. I still keep renewing my old call . I hold a commercial radio license as well, guess I got burned out on radio since I've been in it all of my life. I checked out the CB radios and was amazed at how few are on it these days. They all went to the internet.
Cell phones have taken a lot of a driver's time away from the airwaves.
Here in the Northeast, we have preaching, foreign languages, people running a lot of power(with bleed over), cursing, base stations running power and bullshitting all day on channel 19 and those ANNOYING beeps every time people release the mic button. Drivers up here have enough to put up with, and turn off the CB so they don’t have to deal with that crap.
During the recent black out some major carriers went off line a strange thing happened with the old timers and truckers***and cb ops started to carry *health and welfare traffic. Ie messages were given to truckers then travel to local city's***drop off messages. **Then move on . Though it didn't last long it's there cb for ever😊😊😊
The best noise reduction on CB radio here in Australia is turning the Volume switch to the Off position.
I'm on my CB's, 2Meter, 70cm, 20m and 40m Daily. There are thousands of people with their ears on. Welcome back.
You know I'm a licensed ham operator myself and you're exactly right. When the band is open there's more activity on 11 mm in 10 m. So those who say CB radio is dead well they might want to turn one on and find out
Well, that's 2.5 minutes I will never get back...
Cool, and I just wasted 0.7 seconds reading this useless comment...
NEVER EVER WATCH MY VIDEOS AGAIN... IS THAT TOO SIMPLE TO COMPREHEND?
Was boring
I had a lorry with a CB radio in the UK. All i could here was radio enthusast talking about there radios and equipment or people having arguments. I also picked up a shunter driver calling me lots of names to the other shuntter drivers over his little 5 channel radio. I stopped switching it on after a few days.
A later glorified 1980s SuperStar with no freq counter. I went Galaxy 88 to solve that problem. Then just went straight ham like my father who was MARS in the 70s during NAM.
I remember waking up early on a Saturday morning to get on the rig first. “Breaker 1-4 for a copy. Yeah you got a copy, take it up two good buddy. What’s your 20?”
And in the car “Eyeball eyeball”.
Only those that know will understand.
Breaker 1-9, Breaker 1-9. You got a copy Rubber Ducky! 10-4. Oooga Booga Good Buddy!
Had cb in the early 80's radio will never die .
I put CB Radios in two of my trucks that we take hunting fishing and camping, mostly for the weather band.
We had a 19 channel CB in out car the late 70's, used it to get the smokey reports on the highway as we were traveling. Channel 19 was the one to tune into back then. Haven't used one since, don't even know if they're even a reliable source of info while traveling anymore.
I turned mine on in California and found out nobody speaks English anymore ....
Si
"Que Mala" ... sound familiar?
No hablo inglés
Thank dementia joe & the dumbocrats for that.
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I have found a couple brand new in the box Cobras @ Goodwill for$15. They are great in a jeep with a firestick type antenna.
I'm a retired trucker I have 4 c.b's And 1 base station. It's a Sears road talker 40 and it run's on 12 volt or 110 volt and it will reach with my antenna ( nothing fancy ) from Wa state to Mexico Another one i have is a combo cb and side band and 3 like the one you are showing .All of which will carry out to a minimum 50 miles. the trick is having the right antenna and a little elevation .and on a good day with the proper weather conditions that radeo should reach Hawaii or new york .and don't forget to have a good ground plane
Great. I have a simple Midland 40 channel portable CB radio that has power and antenna hook up in my vehicle and a power pack ( 8 AA batteries) for transportation, I get signals and clear conversations from Massachusetts, New York, Florida, and I'm in SW united states'AZ. I'm trying to figure how i can boost my transmission further,if possible?
Band is alive almost every day, just wish you tube communications community would pick a nationwide FM channel. 73's
"That's all I can drive my amplifier with" 😂😂😂 that has me dying
I'm still laughing
#TexasStar
@HamRadioConcepts hey you're legal nobody will ever know 😈
I fitted two CB’s to the car, one for the highway channel the other for talking.
Still widely used in Australia.
CB radio isn't dead it's more less there is no skip coming in and most people love talking across the ocean. I think CB is alive and doing ok
Back in 93 i used to have CB...i talk to operators from taiwan,china,japan,saipan and guam...thats how powerful this radio since then
back in 93? why did u stop
I lived in Ocala, Florida in the mid 70s.. My handle was ‘Shoestring’.. Worked some 15 miles from my home, & the CB was in everyone’s car.. Used to listen to the truckers on 75.. You were Da Shit if you had massive antennas on both rear quarter panels.. Good times.. 👍
Still play with my CB's. Lots of fun talking to random people. I've got a base station in the Philadelphia suburbs. A bunch of us maybe 10 people or so are on the radio a lot. I enjoy cb because it's antenna to antenna...no repeaters. 366 Mr Smooth.
The old CB didn't cost a dime to use. Much cheaper than a cell phone!!! 😊 GO breaker come on 😊
This is true
A lot of those long distance talkers are just beating their gums on a 300 watt linear and everybody in 4 states can hear them but they can't hear you on your 8 watt LSB radio.
10m has been open to Europe and South America all day
I wish I could comment on the latest video, but I can understand why comments are off. I want to say that I appreciate this channel, your reviews, and the way you explain and describe things to your viewers. I have been encouraged by you over the last few years, and am jumping back into cb after being away for nearly 20 years (and considering maybe someday ham). In fact, I’m buying a radio based off your review - don’t get discouraged by negative comments, you are a positive influence to a hobby full of grumpy narcissists that can’t figure out why nobody wants to get into radio.
Sales of C.B.'s is up 30% each year for the last 8-10 years.
Someone is buying them..
We will need them when war breaks out in the U.S.
I still have my cobra 29 cb in storage somewhere, I used to get England once in a while in the evening, then I got my cell phone in the 90s and put up the cb, I think I'll find it and hook it up, I'll need a good antenna and see if I can get someone to look at it,
Fantastic.
There’s plenty of breakers still on the air near me but they don’t know the lingo anymore. 😢
We have handheld CB Radios in our evac backpacks. 800+ channels and a scan function.
We use them when our phones don't work.
I used to use mine every day going to and from work.
We had a hurricane evacuation about 15 years ago and I turned mine on scan while loading my 4WD.
We caught a group of people planning on breaking in to houses.
My home never hot broken in to. But geez. AMH
USMC 1986 - 1994
10m propagation is open too. If you don't hear anyone, call CQ and put out your call. Don't just spin across the dial and assume the bands are dead. 73 and good DX
I've been calling CQ on my Icom 7100 every day all day (with the voice recorder on my SD card) in my work truck, and nobody ever responds.. I push the button one time on 27.385, I get England.... go figure
I have a DX969 in the box I had in a rig in 2006. I peaked and tuned it. Puts out 4W to 63W adjustable. I need to set it up again.
Don't be quick to disregard that tech..if hostile occupation happens we will need those.
Still have a Navajo base with upper and lower sideband. And also a 100W linear for when the miscreants show up.
For those days you want to make the toaster talk.
@@greylensman2834 Have talked 5 miles off a 500W light bulb used for theatrical scoops used as a dummy load without the linear. Had 1:1 SWR on it.
Breaker 1-9 this here’s the Rubber Duck
Still have cb in my camper on all my atvs. Their cheap reliable for out on the ranch.
Had to have an SWR meter to adjust it right, early 80s I put them in a long with alarms and stereos.
Oh hell no, in fact, I think it’s making a comeback. I had considered getting back into cb radio because it seems to be coming back to life.
will be essential when EMP takes down internet and phone service
10m-20m has been wild lately, including ssb CB.
The clarifier on there radios just dials the frequency up or down a kHz.
I made a contest contact from here in Texas to Romania on 20m last night. 5990 miles seems open to me. Go to 27.385 and it’s nothing but QRN.
@@homersaypian3798 sometimes a simple antenna will do wonders. I once put up a 15 meter dipole from the corner of the house to a cyclone fence. Not high at all, but I must have run a wire to the Russia/China border, which is just about all I could reach with it.
Ah the good ole days. Had cb's in late 80 early 90's. Talked all over the world. Still got some equipment I need to get worked on... one day.
Fix'n them is my thing.
in 1991-2001, I had a Radio shop out of my home in "Northern Michigan CB's From Pest" 150 miles I could talk over skip clean as a bell . No Kickers Just a little MOD and the Antenna I used, My Truck I had a Super Star that put out 20 watt I talk to my Base at the house 150 miles away . Back in my time no cell phones and living in the Back Woods everyone wanted a good radio . SWR of a 1.1 to 1.5 the radio would last a life time . Hundred of books then everything to do a tune up on 99% of every radio from 1940 to 2001 damn cell phones took over.
My wife and I had CBs in our cars in the late 80's and 1990s. Took them out when cell phones became popular, but we still have them. Never know when they may be needed.
My parents said they used to play some kind of hide and seek game using CB radios in the 70s with a bunch of cars
I live way up in northern Canada and a friend of mine bought a home based CB unit at a garage sale and buddy hooked it up and put the antenna up in a tree. We were listening to truckers down in Alabama talking to eachother on their two way radios. We interrupted there conversation and they couldn't figure out how we got on their channel.
Something gets scrambled in the atmosphere because in the early winter months at night we could pick up FM radio stations on AM radio coming out of Seattle.
On the planet that I'm own,Smokey and the Bandit just came out on the drive in picture show! LET'S GO!!!
Someone should create a CB club across North America.
My wife and I got walk-in talkies the other day for travelling.
If you and your wife got one of those "blister pack" radios that boast of having upto 36mi range or similar, that range statement is, well, definitely not going to be very realistic.
In either case, you likely bought those "GMRS" radio (i.e. walkie-talkie) that have like 22ch if I remember right?
Anyways, those radios are GMRS, which, technically, you need to acquire a license to use them on the GMRS channels let alone whatever "GMRS repeater tower" you plan on going through.
However, you can use, for example, ch8-ch14, which are called FRS channels andvrequire NO license to transmit on. Your transmit output wattage is dramatically reduced internally to the radio down to like 0.5W
Whatever the case, they are still good radios to use when 2x cars are being used and very easy to use.
Finally, very unlikely the FCC will go after you for not having a GMRS license... BUT... just be aware that it is a possibility and a fine will be issued as well as possible jail time.
I can't tell you word for word or all the information on my Cb cobra but I have a fully custom 1974 Dodge van my uncle built in the summer of 76 I owned it since 1984 all I know is she's an old school Cobra and she has upper and lower sideband and she's big as a freaking suitcase sometimes I swear LOL been in that van since 1978 and surprisingly it still works but could stand to be dialed in once again
When I lived in Northern Ontario Canada I had a Navaho single side band base CB with a basic car antenna outside my window of my house and picked up a guy from San Francisco on skip and we started talking to each other. we started talking about the World Series since it was being played that day in San Fran. a little while later things got a little quiet on his end but he came back with a" I don't know how much longer I can talk with you we just had an earthquake and I think my building is on fire!" I told him to sign off and find a safe place which he did. I signed off and went in to the family room where my family was getting ready to watch the World Series when I said that there won't be a game in San Fran that night because they just had a big earthquake. None of my family believed me until the TV went off the air and all you could hear was the audio from the announcers at the game said " Folks, we just had an earthquake rock San Francisco and everyone is evacuating the stadium!". My family looked at me and asked how I knew that happened and I told them about the person I was talking to and that was when we all realized that radio waves travelled faster than the TV satellite feed."
I still use mine. A lot of places still require you to have one
I cruise around with the Cobra on frequently. Love reaching out with skip!
Great radio! I have one myself. The Noise reduction sounds digital because the radio IS digital. It is completely computer controlled until it hits the output amplifier making the signal analog again for the speaker. It's genius! Also, hook it up to your computer or laptop and download the program and you will be very excited to see all that you can do with this radio! You will be very happy.
Had a CB radio back in the day.
That clarifier was a big deal when talking with a driver on the flip side as we could triple our talk time.
Most radios back then were slightly off frequency and therefore susceptible to clarifying. I really liked that one for penetrating where the squelch and noise blanker couldn't .
Exactly, I agree
I just set up an old Cobra, and your right. The frequency is just a little off and adjusting it is difficult for this model. It bugs me because me because when I set up a radio it MUST be exactly on whatever the manual calls for. Especially for SSB rigs, which is why I had a reputation for setting them up and sounding good.
I still use a cb on long road trips especially when we’re pulling our trailer.
I got Radio Shack 9 ft. SS whip and Cobra NW Sound Tracker WC and 400 BI linear and talked all over, Santa Domingo etc..
We all need to get these now we are going to need them I am going to dig mine out
It's called Atmospherics....And Solar Flares cause it and was once upon a time called "Skip", is more prevalent during the Solar Max Uptick....IMHO
I enjoyed your comment! They don't know.
whatever you do, do not use channel 19 in Lewiston Idaho. 19 is for locals (they actually talk about guppies) and they will make that very clear. The driver channel there is 15.
maybe they should learn that 19 is the Trucker's channel...
unless you'd like to talk about guppies you'll have no one to talk to, lol
Guppies the aquarium tropical fish? Or is that a new hip term meaning gay yuppies or something?
it's true, locals talk about the colors of their fish, guppies
My neighbors are into C.B. radio. I've got an old C.B. radio somewhere in storage. Hopefully to install it into my old deully pickup as a novelty.
I'm a trucker and there isn't even 25% of truck drivers out here today that use a CB radio.
That's how you get in Trouble you need to Know what's Ahead of You so you can make a decision.
@@VickieSmith-r1x You know that and I know that, but the newbs don't know that and if they do, they just don't care.
I had a C.B. years ago and a C.B. Shop at I 12 and I 55 in Hammond LA. AKA. REGULATOR 272 IN THE Bayou .😎
When I was driving 20 years ago, CB air was full of garbage. People acting the fool, playing around, insulting each other, etc. I quit depending on the CB because I couldn't get anything useful from it.
We're lucky if 25% of the drivers are even American, anymore.
Personally, I find running without a radio to be irresponsible.
Had a CB back in the heyday 1970s. It was great for tracking smokies and bears. And there was respect. I tried firing up a CB back around 2000 and the rude, annoying, vulgar laced, walking all over everyone comments turned me off. I don’t imagine it has improved any.
In the 70's where I lived, everyone kept their CB conversations short and to the point.
In the mid 80's I put my favorite radio, a Motorola 40 channel, in my car for a trip. The language was terrible and I shut it off. I liked the Mororola because it had a great receiver, but the noise was very quiet while signals were clear to listen to. Pace 2300's were great too, but very noisy when tuned for maximum sensitivity, which I did every time I sold one.
I grew up in the 70s and early 80s and all my uncles and aunts had cb's in their homes and vehicles. I still have a cb in my vehicle and with the technology of small compact lite weight batteries now days I can remove my cb and tuck it in my bug out bag with my collapsible antenna and still be able to communicate should the power grid go down. Im currently studying for a ham radio license because you can run them off 12 volt DC and they reach out farther (a lot farther)
I found licencing as a radio dealer easier to obtain, you can also license other people temporarily! That's how it is here in Britain anyway.
Back in the day when I had my one stack mack with the window in the back..strolling down the big boulevard out of Hackensack..I'd drop it in the big hole and gouge on it..wrap my toenails over the radiator..COME ON!!
CB is not dead..Maybe, MAYBE not as popular as it was in the 1970s and early 1980s..But still putting it out
Well, if you want to get into CB radio make sure you get
an older TUBE CB and put it back in 100% working order. Then put it in a deep dry shielded box. Cause one Chinese ENP weapon
and all your bright shiny
microprocessor controlled
toys are going to be boat anchors.....
Cause one Chinese ENP weapon
and all your bright shiny microprocessor controlled toys are going to be boat anchors And one H bomb from the US and a good part of China is reduced to a big pile of radioactive rubble.
And china will say, thankyou for the H bomb. Now try one of ours!@@rcas350pilot8
The same goes for your car. One good EMP and your car will stop running where it sits. An old car with breaker points will not even notice what happened.
Put it on channel 19. And by the way, my Connex 3300 still works Talk on it everyday
I wonder if people are taking advantage of FM on CB, now that it's legal? Of course, AM waves seems to travel further at low power, but FM sounds crystal clear compared to AM.
Actually a.m. which is amplitude modulation at the right bandwidth will actually sound better than FM which is frequency modulation and both on the same frequency will travel at the same distance. People have a misconception about AM FM and single sideband it's all about bandwidth being transmitted
Me and my buddies in our small town put them in our cars back in the late 70s. That way we could all stay in touch while out and about in town.
E did the same. 70s style rock
The same thing in Dallas.
Yep, Pennsylvania too!
I use a cb radio every day and nite to and from work love it
The last time I used a CB they only had 23 channels.
Remember the 6 channel ones?
Got a Pearce Simpson 23 channel Cheetah with Upper and Lower SB. 5/8 wave on the roof , got out like a champ ! Roger That ?
@@WilliamRichards-ut1hk Yes I Do ! Needed TX. and RC . Crystals for other channels ! Inserted in the face plate . Lafayette model !
I found it helpful if there was a highway problem like a blockage somewhere and you could pick another route or in need of some local information.
Your cell phone does that.
@@HansZarkovPhD Nooooo. I once got caught in a major rain storm near Sacremento, CA. We had to stop the motorhome because I-5 was closed. My coworker went to bed, but I played with the CB and found the truckers were going on a bypass road. After looking at the map I fired up the engine and we went home. A cell phone won't do that.
My friend used to have a CB radio that could plug-in in the house and we lived by a major highway, and we used to jerk around with truckers all the time and make them snap😂
I had an old set about 34yrs ago was a sapphire X2000?? Something like that with a magnetic mount and bull whip wire,good times 😊
One thing the government can't censor or block. Everyone should have one for "just in case"
Everything can be censored or blocked.
My mom and dad had a 1000w home station and a 400w linear in the car. We could talk to Australia! My handle was Lil Bumpkin cause my pops was Country Bumpkin, my twin was Muddy Duck, Mom was Lady Catfish and my big bro was Tombstone! Damn those were simpler times! Need to get one again! I remember visiting relatives in Texas and talkin to friends in southern Oregon back home!!! Also remember between little league games getting on the CB and tuning to ch 17 and saying " truck drivers are dumb"! LOL, right by I5, blew them truckers doors off! They would say we gonna find you, i would chuckle and say no ur not cause i aint talkin no more! I knew better with that 400watts screamin!
Wow, those were the good ole days. Did your neighbors get pissed for you walking on their tv and radio signal?
I got a CB around 83, I was about 13, and I stayed on it for 24 hours a day for a whole week once without any sleep. I had the shakes, and every colour I saw was so vibrant, I never saw any hallucinations that everybody talks about, though. Man, I loved that CB until my sister moved out and stole it. 19 for a ladybreaker 😆 the things we did before the internet.
Back in the 80's, every other house in my area of the UK seemed to have an illegal dipole lashed to it. :D
Good thing about CB radios is, if you don't have phone service. Then you got a CB radio to communicate