Been a ham operator for 16 years. One of the best tools ever. More people need to get back into the hobby. Good job Wes show them how all this got started.
CB's still work, we use them for hunting, and the biggest reason lately is keeping track of the 7 year old lol. Bought some good Midland hand held units, all the neighbors bought them for their kids too. The rule is now they all have to be home by 7pm, and they all get turned off by 8 and handed to the parents, otherwise they keep us all awake lol. Great videos,keep up the good work.
Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June In a Kenworth pullin' logs Cab-over Pete with a reefer on And a Jimmy haulin' hogs We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh 'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck. "And I'm about to put the hammer down."
I like those Cobras. Always had luck with them. Have one in my RV. Great tool to have out on the road. As far as people bothering you while working, maybe change the channel your going to use daily.
It's the bandit ,snowman, frog, and the smoky all over again. I can't believe it took you this long to get radios. Once you have them, you can't believe how you got along with out them.
YUP ,THE 70'S-80'S WERE GREAT ,IT IS CALLED "SKIP" WHEN YOU SKIP THE SIGNAL OFF THE ATMOSPHERE .I WAS IN S.E.TEXAS AND YOU COULD RAISE NEW YORK,OR IF YOU HAD A LINEAR BASE STATION YOU COULD TALK TO S.AMERICA OR ANCHORAGE OR WHERE EVER.DEPENDED ON THE OUT PUT AMPERAGE,I NEED TO SET MY BASE STATION UP ... THANKS WES THIS IS A GREAT PROJECT. BUT I HAVE JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING YEPP GOD BLESS YOU ,YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR FARM
Started out on CB in 1980 and if the conditions were right I could talk to Australia from here in NZ, they have gone to UHF so know one on now days. Great video.
Back in the 70s had a base unit in the house ,my antenna was a 30ft linear on a60ft tower.on a good night was able to talk to people in Hawaii,I lived in bloomsburg , pa. I believe it was because of the skip. Great vid.you'll have lots of fun.
My father had a beam antenna that could rotate on a tower on top of the garage and I remember him talking all over the world it seemed. Had a 1000/5000 watt amp ?, maybe more not sure but he was into it big time.
I about fell out of my chair when you got all that hooked up and the kids were practically falling all over each other trying them out! I run those exact radios when I'm in the trucks.
I tried one of those through glass antennas and it really didn't do well at all. Went back to the 102" whips and K40's to get out. Give Ryan a holler over at how farms work in his new ride. I think his handle will be rubber duck! LOL!
Wesley you are missing your Tractor Trailer's and Pickup's :-) They need it too you will see how Zack has it all setup as well. Guess you talked to him about it LOL
We used them in our tractors back in the early 90's and they worked great. Got to know other folks using base stations at the time who would relay messages for us if we was too far away from each other. Remember this was before cell phones and the radio shack mobile car phones was just coming out. Btw, we call that skip land where you could pick up and talk to people all over the country.
We used to use the trusty 550 and 770 Nextels. When they fell off the fender of the tractor you simply hung them back on your belt. No need to replace the screen.
Wes,CB's are not obsolete by any means,I've been into ham/cb radio since 1970 and have communicated all over the world with CB radios and I still enjoy the hobby.
@Tsunauticus III I have Nextel for work going on road calls. Useless. Barely works. Doesn't get enough signal to dc. Plus then you don't have to pay a ridiculous fee for the business account
@@Bill-sp8py I was out in the middle of a large metro city I couldn't get the thing to dc. I ended up using the phone more than dc. It's expensive as hell.
Those are a pretty good radios.I-went the cheep route first time around and bought really cheap CB radios.Don’t know what we would do without them now.Time consuming getting everything setup with them though.
Those glass mount antennas can be hell on SWR's. A 4-ft magnet mount on the cab would probably work a lot better Wes. I'd put a base radio setup in the house for Teresa & William when he gets older. The receive doesn't sound too bad.
Nice.... that's Nice to go back to the old days... sometimes a simpler way to communicate is easier... Nextel had quite a good setup with that stuff... just wait to you get a basestation again soo she can call u and you can talk to william from the field
Wes take it from an old-time CB and Ham operator, keep the other SWR meter it's more accurate than the built-in meters!!! We use FM now on the farm which is great but CB's are good but I never trusted those window mounts I tried a couple and did not have good luck!!! Enjoy!!! It makes things a lot simpler in our operation!!!
we run them in all our tractors and grain trucks for years across field never seen one fall apart yet I like either a Wilson 1000 or a Lil will antenna
I've had the glass mount antennas before, extremely short range and have swr issues. You would be better off buying the cheap walmart magnetic based antennas. FireStik antennas would be my pick, very durable. I like old school. Most 18 wheelers don't even bother using them either more. Keep up the good videos.
Wes , I’m a licensed ham radio operator and I can tell you now , you need to Swr the antenna to the radio and get ride of them glass antennas, one mile distant max with glass mount antenna ,
SWR = Standing Wave Ratio. You need to tune the Antenna to the output of the radio by adjusting the length for max performance. Lots of videos on RUclips
SWR: standing wave reflective ratio. When an antenna is properly tune for length....the wave end in a zero. When too short or long the wave ends with a unreflective voltage anywhere up to the maximum power transmitted ....hence power radiation or transmitted signal.
I hope those work out well for you. CB's were a good backbone for us, but the skip during the day made any reliable communications nearly useless especially if we had to be more than 5 miles apart. So we had to make the transition to commercial VHF radios. The initial fees were not cheap and the yearly licencing is a pain, but considering the longer range and no interference it made life so much easier for us. The average Base to mobile range was typically about 30mi so it made life pretty good, or about 15mi mobile to mobile. (Keeping in mind our terrain is fairly flat. Also our TV tower on the house plus the high gain antenna was about 45')
@@timothygunckel7162 want to bet?, just recently I had DX running on all 40 channels not less than S7 to S9 on signal strength. On the"SUPER BOWL"channel-6,I had signals running as high as 80+over 9 on signal strength,on my 1953 Collins R-391/URR Military receiver.
You will need to check the SWR on each radio to make sure the antennas are matched to the radios. If they are not, the finals in the radios will burn up while transmitting.
I'm sure its not an issue with your new equipment but be sure they are all negative grounds.... old Macks for example have positive grounds.....a mag mount antenna are a better choice for long term (less hassel) ex4 them getting knocked off by low branches as you go down the road....Love Vids and All the Best to Willy and Ms T...too
we have motorolla radios in all our trucks combines tractors and some walikie talkies like for loading but its great cause no one else is on our frequency and they talk 39 miles clearly and its not to exspensive next time you may check them out and they are nice radios wes
They don't talk 39 miles clearly unless either (a) you've got your own repeater up on a tower at a high location that all of your radios are talking through or (b) you are renting repeater time on somebody else's system. You aren't doing 39 miles simplex, guaranteed. And what you are talking about involves significantly more up-front cash or monthly per-radio radio feeds to whomever is operating the system you are renting from. Sure, Wes will not have the range (and will hear comical skip from "468 in the Buckeye State" and such when the band is open), but what he and the How Farms Work folks use are cheap and easily replaceable. Granted, anybody can monitor them, but I doubt they care. Minnesota Millennial Farmer uses digigal (NXDN48) radios in simplex mode, not as easily monitored.
good choice. now you can order a cheese burger from the cab... or maybe just a cup of coffee. seriously, being able to communicate when you need to is going to be a big plus for your operation.
The loggers around here like MARINE RADIOs. They leave the mike off hook so they can monitor the channel. Being VHF radios the range is line of sight.(If you can see it, you can talk to it..) Cops, Taxis, and etc run vhf-fm radios. Local cops do not monitor marine radio channels. At 40 below zero and you go into the wood to load, it is nice to know you can call for help where there is no cell phone coverage.
We have CB's in everything I own, truck, car, tractor's, combine, everything. They don't seem to get as far as 20 year's back, but faster than a phone. Channels 19, 25, 30 very noisy here find u a dead channel with less chatter in your area. COBRA makes great CB's 29s top quality, 25s cheaper and smaller but will do just as good of a job in a tractor, 19s built to cheap for the bounce. Have a great day from LA.
Sweet!! My father had a cb shop when it was popular. Get the echo mike or the mike that moans ,that will piss people off. The side band should give you more watts then straight 40 channels.
Delta tune set at 12 o'clock. rf and mic gain all the way up to 5 o'clock and if you put them in the semi's it should be really simple most trucks are set up already for one just might have to replace the antenna if it's old or broke.
5 radios my first thought was the good old-fashioned two-way radio I work for a company to use them we got up to about 50 miles I think my best with the CB radio for the same kind you got was maybe 10 miles and that was professionally done then I was told to semi had too much fiberglass to make it super effective
Chicken boxes are perfect for you're application as long you don't go too far away, I give up with those in the 80's now a ham operator I can talk all over the world with ease.
Yea better quality then hand helds also next step tho would be 2 ways where you would buy a subscription for a certain frequency that only those radios programed to it have access to
those cobras are brilliant. Glass mounted antennas have very limited range and not very easy to get the swr tuned in. I would go with a mirror mount or mag mount on roof the longer the antenna the better. I always fit din mounted radios if there is a spare slot
I’ve used Zello for the last 3-4 years doing snow removal way easier and cheaper than putting 2 way radios in over 20 pieces of equipment and we can use it still when not near the truck or tractor
Just a reminder, the radios need to be matched to the antenna or you will take out the transmitter. To do that you need an SWR meter. Also through the glass antennas do not work as well as a mounted on a metal roof.. Best way is get help from a ham or a CB store.
Cool deal you are adding CBs to the tractors. Cobra 29's are the standard all other radios are compared to. If you're looking for any kinda range out of the radios you really need to go with a different antenna solution though. The through glass antennas just don't work that well over any kinda distance. Don't want to get into a deep dive in radio theory, but the short of it is you are artificially creating the correct wavelength by loading the base with a resistor thus reducing your receive and transmit capability. You are further loosing more transmit and receive capability because of how the induction principles work with the two antenna components through the glass. I've worked with glass mount antennas in the P25 world when those were a suitable undercover antenna for police radios and they just absolutely SUCK. A traditional 4' fiberglass whip and a firestick molded side mount bolted into metal on the side of your cab would be an excellent setup for cheap.
farmers used CBs back in the 60s then they became super popular in the 70s so they were being walked over no matter what channel they tried. Then they swithed to the FM radios and paid repeater fees . Then the internet and cell phones came around. CBs became less cool. Now they are back to what they were in the 60s but with modern technology to take advantage of
There's no need for power mics today. They used power mics back in the day. Now all you need to do is peak and tune. Get a good noise canceling mic and your golden 👍👍
Been a ham operator for 16 years. One of the best tools ever. More people need to get back into the hobby. Good job Wes show them how all this got started.
CB's still work, we use them for hunting, and the biggest reason lately is keeping track of the 7 year old lol. Bought some good Midland hand held units, all the neighbors bought them for their kids too. The rule is now they all have to be home by 7pm, and they all get turned off by 8 and handed to the parents, otherwise they keep us all awake lol. Great videos,keep up the good work.
Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin' logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"And I'm about to put the hammer down."
I still use one in my work truck, same as what you have, peaked and tuned, super modified. I run a Browning Broadband 88 antenna.
LOL,Its great when you get the kids excited over something that almost antique!!
I like those Cobras. Always had luck with them. Have one in my RV. Great tool to have out on the road. As far as people bothering you while working, maybe change the channel your going to use daily.
to get a radio test. I usually say "stupid one calling stupid two" usually gets a return from stupid too.
It's the bandit ,snowman, frog, and the smoky all over again. I can't believe it took you this long to get radios. Once you have them, you can't believe how you got along with out them.
Loved the years when I was trucking would go on short wave and talk to guys all over the world nice wes
Legend has it joe is still riding around looking for another radio wave lol
Back in the day before cell phones we had 2 way radios in every piece of equipment. Put repeaters out for long distance. Worked quite well.
That is awesome ! Love CB's had one in my F-100 years ago :)
YUP ,THE 70'S-80'S WERE GREAT ,IT IS CALLED "SKIP" WHEN YOU SKIP THE SIGNAL OFF THE ATMOSPHERE .I WAS IN S.E.TEXAS AND YOU COULD RAISE NEW YORK,OR IF YOU HAD A LINEAR BASE STATION YOU COULD TALK TO S.AMERICA OR ANCHORAGE OR WHERE EVER.DEPENDED ON THE OUT PUT AMPERAGE,I NEED TO SET MY BASE STATION UP ...
THANKS WES THIS IS A GREAT PROJECT.
BUT I HAVE JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING YEPP
GOD BLESS YOU ,YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR FARM
Started out on CB in 1980 and if the conditions were right I could talk to Australia from here in NZ, they have gone to UHF so know one on now days. Great video.
Back in the 70s had a base unit in the house ,my antenna was a 30ft linear on a60ft tower.on a good night was able to talk to people in Hawaii,I lived in bloomsburg , pa. I believe it was because of the skip. Great vid.you'll have lots of fun.
My father had a beam antenna that could rotate on a tower on top of the garage and I remember him talking all over the world it seemed. Had a 1000/5000 watt amp ?, maybe more not sure but he was into it big time.
KBQ 1362 Remember the days when the formalities meant a lot. The trucking world depends on CB radio so you can’t go wrong. Great content as always 👍
Use to have the CB in the pick up truck . Great to have for long drives .
I about fell out of my chair when you got all that hooked up and the kids were practically falling all over each other trying them out! I run those exact radios when I'm in the trucks.
I tried one of those through glass antennas and it really didn't do well at all. Went back to the 102" whips and K40's to get out. Give Ryan a holler over at how farms work in his new ride. I think his handle will be rubber duck! LOL!
I have always used the co ax direct to the mag mount on the whip.
Nice video Wes CB's are cool
Been saving up to add cb radios to all the trucks and tractors.
Wesley you are missing your Tractor Trailer's and Pickup's :-) They need it too you will see how Zack has it all setup as well. Guess you talked to him about it LOL
This is why I miss Nextel was great on the farm!
🎙”Attention Mr. and Mrs. America and all ships at sea.”
Those midland micro mobiles look pretty slick too
we went to radios two years ago way better than telephone and walkie talkie best thing ive done in a while you will like it fine
I love how ya just throw shit and tools across your shop it reminds me of myself
We used them in our tractors back in the early 90's and they worked great. Got to know other folks using base stations at the time who would relay messages for us if we was too far away from each other. Remember this was before cell phones and the radio shack mobile car phones was just coming out.
Btw, we call that skip land where you could pick up and talk to people all over the country.
We used to use the trusty 550 and 770 Nextels. When they fell off the fender of the tractor you simply hung them back on your belt. No need to replace the screen.
I've still got my Galaxy 99 I bought off a trucker for $200. His misfortune was my good luck. Peaked tuned wall to wall tree top tall.
Wes,CB's are not obsolete by any means,I've been into ham/cb radio since 1970 and have communicated all over the world with CB radios and I still enjoy the hobby.
4 gauge my dad was big into them in the 70 80s, call sign was galaxy out of oshawa ont canada. Cq cq cqdx I recall him calling out.
@@TiMneR-tx1ys My old license call letters are KAZG-2692 on CB radio and my ham call WAS KB8PMQ.
@@4gauge10 73 KD8VEP
@@papajohn357 QSL,73's KD8VEP
Of course, folks who want to communicate with others all over the world do have the internet and cell phones...
An amazing video and nice work 👍
I miss Nextel with the free direct connect
@Tsunauticus III I have Nextel for work going on road calls. Useless. Barely works. Doesn't get enough signal to dc. Plus then you don't have to pay a ridiculous fee for the business account
@@danokerr9929 yeah when sprint took them over the service just sucks
@@Bill-sp8py I was out in the middle of a large metro city I couldn't get the thing to dc. I ended up using the phone more than dc. It's expensive as hell.
@@danokerr9929 yeah I was in Kentucky when it was still Nextel and it worked great when sprint took them over it was just a paperweight
those Cobra`s are good radios got my dads which was manufactured in 91 in my truck
Those are a pretty good radios.I-went the cheep route first time around and bought really cheap CB radios.Don’t know what we would do without them now.Time consuming getting everything setup with them though.
Those glass mount antennas can be hell on SWR's. A 4-ft magnet mount on the cab would probably work a lot better Wes. I'd put a base radio setup in the house for Teresa & William when he gets older. The receive doesn't sound too bad.
a friend in Northern Ireland had a base so powerful he talked to Newfoundland and NewBrunswick
Nice.... that's Nice to go back to the old days... sometimes a simpler way to communicate is easier... Nextel had quite a good setup with that stuff... just wait to you get a basestation again soo she can call u and you can talk to william from the field
Wes take it from an old-time CB and Ham operator, keep the other SWR meter it's more accurate than the built-in meters!!! We use FM now on the farm which is great but CB's are good but I never trusted those window mounts I tried a couple and did not have good luck!!! Enjoy!!! It makes things a lot simpler in our operation!!!
we run them in all our tractors and grain trucks for years across field never seen one fall apart yet I like either a Wilson 1000 or a Lil will antenna
Now ya need an old school Cobra 2000 base station for the house ;-)
I've had the glass mount antennas before, extremely short range and have swr issues. You would be better off buying the cheap walmart magnetic based antennas. FireStik antennas would be my pick, very durable. I like old school. Most 18 wheelers don't even bother using them either more. Keep up the good videos.
Wes , I’m a licensed ham radio operator and I can tell you now , you need to Swr the antenna to the radio and get ride of them glass antennas, one mile distant max with glass mount antenna ,
Ya the glass antennas suck!!
It's called skip. I would of got roof mounted whips. Never had much luck with window mounted antennas.
I agree, but the tree limbs will knock them off
SWR = Standing Wave Ratio. You need to tune the Antenna to the output of the radio by adjusting the length for max performance. Lots of videos on RUclips
SWR: standing wave reflective ratio. When an antenna is properly tune for length....the wave end in a zero. When too short or long the wave ends with a unreflective voltage anywhere up to the maximum power transmitted ....hence power radiation or transmitted signal.
They work real nice for SP choppers and the dump truck fleet
I thought of doing the same thing especially for gathering bales , I honk the horn when I want the semi to stop but they can't always hear it.
I hope those work out well for you. CB's were a good backbone for us, but the skip during the day made any reliable communications nearly useless especially if we had to be more than 5 miles apart. So we had to make the transition to commercial VHF radios. The initial fees were not cheap and the yearly licencing is a pain, but considering the longer range and no interference it made life so much easier for us. The average Base to mobile range was typically about 30mi so it made life pretty good, or about 15mi mobile to mobile. (Keeping in mind our terrain is fairly flat. Also our TV tower on the house plus the high gain antenna was about 45')
To me,this is a excellent idea Wes,if for whatever reason,the smartphone system goes down,CB's will always be around.
Sometimes point to point communications is the only way to go. A lot of room on the cb band these days. No conjestion.
@@timothygunckel7162 want to bet?, just recently I had DX running on all 40 channels not less than S7 to S9 on signal strength.
On the"SUPER BOWL"channel-6,I had signals running as high as 80+over 9 on signal strength,on my 1953 Collins R-391/URR Military receiver.
I still have my base station cb. back when I was a kid I have on in my bedroom and in my car.
CB's are good. I use walkie talkies. Use them when we go on trips with the kids so they don't take the wrong exit. Good move Wes.
It's got to be squatch for Tim, the CB bandito's 😂👍
You will need to check the SWR on each radio to make sure the antennas are matched to the radios. If they are not, the finals in the radios will burn up while transmitting.
you'll be way happier with the cbs versus the walkie talkies.
I prefer business band for the plain fact that not everyone with a cb can fuck with ne
Breaker one, breaker one, might be crazy but I ain't dumb, crazy cooter coming at ya.
I'm sure its not an issue with your new equipment but be sure they are all negative grounds.... old Macks for example have positive grounds.....a mag mount antenna are a better choice for long term (less hassel) ex4 them getting knocked off by low branches as you go down the road....Love Vids and All the Best to Willy and Ms T...too
Wes you should look into 2way radios that have more broadcasting power and make sure you tune those radios out in your field
we have motorolla radios in all our trucks combines tractors and some walikie talkies like for loading but its great cause no one else is on our frequency and they talk 39 miles clearly and its not to exspensive next time you may check them out and they are nice radios wes
They don't talk 39 miles clearly unless either (a) you've got your own repeater up on a tower at a high location that all of your radios are talking through or (b) you are renting repeater time on somebody else's system. You aren't doing 39 miles simplex, guaranteed. And what you are talking about involves significantly more up-front cash or monthly per-radio radio feeds to whomever is operating the system you are renting from. Sure, Wes will not have the range (and will hear comical skip from "468 in the Buckeye State" and such when the band is open), but what he and the How Farms Work folks use are cheap and easily replaceable. Granted, anybody can monitor them, but I doubt they care. Minnesota Millennial Farmer uses digigal (NXDN48) radios in simplex mode, not as easily monitored.
Yes the Motorola radios are much better than CBS we get ex police radios with the frequency changed but definitely need roof Ariel's to get range
yes we rent repeater time i didnt think i had to explain that but it's worth it to have only us on the frequency
good choice. now you can order a cheese burger from the cab... or maybe just a cup of coffee. seriously, being able to communicate when you need to is going to be a big plus for your operation.
You need a base station at home, the girls take controle of the operation. 20 meter antenne, 50 watt of power. Keeps the boys in check
The loggers around here like MARINE RADIOs. They leave the mike off hook so they can monitor the channel. Being VHF radios the range is line of sight.(If you can see it, you can talk to it..) Cops, Taxis, and etc run vhf-fm radios. Local cops do not monitor marine radio channels. At 40 below zero and you go into the wood to load, it is nice to know you can call for help where there is no cell phone coverage.
We have CB's in everything I own, truck, car, tractor's, combine, everything. They don't seem to get as far as 20 year's back, but faster than a phone. Channels 19, 25, 30 very noisy here find u a dead channel with less chatter in your area. COBRA makes great CB's 29s top quality, 25s cheaper and smaller but will do just as good of a job in a tractor, 19s built to cheap for the bounce. Have a great day from LA.
Sweet!! My father had a cb shop when it was popular. Get the echo mike or the mike that moans ,that will piss people off. The side band should give you more watts then straight 40 channels.
Delta tune set at 12 o'clock. rf and mic gain all the way up to 5 o'clock and if you put them in the semi's it should be really simple most trucks are set up already for one just might have to replace the antenna if it's old or broke.
you should change the wax you're using on the 8210 as it makes the fenders look patchy.... sort of brown in places....
Wes, you need to put a base radio in the house for the little woman so she can holler for you if she needs to.
5 radios my first thought was the good old-fashioned two-way radio I work for a company to use them we got up to about 50 miles
I think my best with the CB radio for the same kind you got was maybe 10 miles and that was professionally done then I was told to semi had too much fiberglass to make it super effective
Make sure you have a good antenna and set your SWRs will work better and radio will last longer
My grandpa lived in Ohio and years ago he had a booster for his cb which I believe was illegal. One night he talked on that cb to a guy in England.
Breaker Breaker Good Buddy !!!!!
Man i sur do like that old 7410 hope we see a restore vid someday of it
Good radios.
Chicken boxes are perfect for you're application as long you don't go too far away, I give up with those in the 80's now a ham operator I can talk all over the world with ease.
If you take the radio apart, there should be a dial where you can turn the power up.
everyone on our farm had them
Yea better quality then hand helds also next step tho would be 2 ways where you would buy a subscription for a certain frequency that only those radios programed to it have access to
those cobras are brilliant. Glass mounted antennas have very limited range and not very easy to get the swr tuned in. I would go with a mirror mount or mag mount on roof the longer the antenna the better. I always fit din mounted radios if there is a spare slot
Glad I kept my Cobra's!👍
they look like tiny antenna for CB, they look more like UHF PMR/FRAS type ??
Can’t beat the CB. I still have my fidelity 2000. Would never sell it.
Quality of oldskool radios is like streaming through rainpipe
Zello ap have you updated it we had same problem till we updated
nice thanks for the video wes
I’ve used Zello for the last 3-4 years doing snow removal way easier and cheaper than putting 2 way radios in over 20 pieces of equipment and we can use it still when not near the truck or tractor
Calling joe dirt 😆
Just a reminder, the radios need to be matched to the antenna or you will take out the transmitter. To do that you need an SWR meter. Also through the glass antennas do not work as well as a mounted on a metal roof.. Best way is get help from a ham or a CB store.
Cobra cb's were a good make back in the day...
CB radios are cool. nice install. 2 mile range???
Cool deal you are adding CBs to the tractors. Cobra 29's are the standard all other radios are compared to. If you're looking for any kinda range out of the radios you really need to go with a different antenna solution though. The through glass antennas just don't work that well over any kinda distance. Don't want to get into a deep dive in radio theory, but the short of it is you are artificially creating the correct wavelength by loading the base with a resistor thus reducing your receive and transmit capability. You are further loosing more transmit and receive capability because of how the induction principles work with the two antenna components through the glass. I've worked with glass mount antennas in the P25 world when those were a suitable undercover antenna for police radios and they just absolutely SUCK. A traditional 4' fiberglass whip and a firestick molded side mount bolted into metal on the side of your cab would be an excellent setup for cheap.
We use mirror mounted cb aerials, can't fault them and not at all flimsy
now all the dead tractor batteries from leaving radios on
if they where smart about it they hooked it to the power in the console there thats on the key
@@Wolfhound. Actually you want clean power, straight from the battery.
because any other power is dirty ? please explain cause i run cb's and they are keyed ? @@truracer20
farmers used CBs back in the 60s then they became super popular in the 70s so they were being walked over no matter what channel they tried. Then they swithed to the FM radios and paid repeater fees . Then the internet and cell phones came around. CBs became less cool. Now they are back to what they were in the 60s but with modern technology to take advantage of
Good old CB tag with tractors......lol
YES i talk to myself! BECAUSE SOMETIMES I NEED EXPERT ADVISE! Im an A&P Mechanic.
Cbs are the only way to go as far as I'm concerned
Take them to a radio shop “ in some truck stops “ and have them peaked and tuned and opened up and they will work a lot better !! And get power mics
There's no need for power mics today. They used power mics back in the day. Now all you need to do is peak and tune. Get a good noise canceling mic and your golden 👍👍
I’m just a fan of the little red devil
Next thing Joseph will need to check ham radio where he can get into listening and talking t people in other countries
need a fender there Bud?