This Is Why CB RADIO IS DEAD!
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- This Is Why CB RADIO IS DEAD!
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In this video I attempt to find out whether or not CB radio is dead, dying or reviving. I've heard all too many times that CB is dead. However, as you'll see from the results of this video, it doesn't seem too dead to me. The CB is set up in my 1995 GMC Suburban K1500.
My gear:
Cobra 29LX CB Radio: amzn.to/2UDyQjL
Wilson Little Wil: amzn.to/2Cpn0Tg
As far as I can tell my Cobra 29LX CB radio and Wilson Little Wil CB Antenna are set up correctly. The SWR meter on the CB radio shows a very low SWR. I realize I should back that up with an external SWR meter but for what I have, I'm doing the best I can.
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As someone who drives a truck daily, cb certainly isn't dead.
Lol never kept mine on. Garbage racism. Especially in Atlanta
I’m down in Savannah and every one on 95 is great
@@seanharvey1250 LMFAO no they're not. Only between 106 and 109 bc the ports. Other than that, lots of garbage talk
I agree. I usually keep mine off, but I use it for many of my pickups at rock quarries, power plants and cement plants.
You need it for daily driving in the construction industry. I drive dump truck and I need it for going to the quarry and back picking up stone.
Bad mistake throwing cb radios to the curb.
ITS FREE COMMUNICATIONS .
And you may need to use them again as last defense of communication.
PEOPLE GET BACK ON CB RADIOS.
TheParanormal70 Need to start a movement! I miss using a CB. And would be a good tool if things go wrong
@@SladesVWBeetle cb radio cannot be shut down with a push of a button.
Computers ,internet and cellphones can be shut down total blackout to keep people from communicating with a push of a button at the whitehouse.
People need to go back to cb radios or other two way radios systems as back up when goverment decides to blackout internet,tv cable,satellite and phones .
TheParanormal70 I agree 100%. It don’t take much to shut everything down! CB would be a good way to communicate and keep each other informed of things
@@SladesVWBeetle Pass out flyers at your local university! Let them know all they need is a Cobra, an Antenna and a little amp and direct them to a local channel. Make it cool again that way
Even though I'm not a user, I do keep one around for emergency use. Haven't had any need for it yet, but nice to know it's there if needed
As a trucker, CB is still an essential tool even in the 21st century. Many large shippers and receivers use CB to communicate with trucks making deliveries and pick ups.
Even some plants in my area have signs saying what channel they are on for tuck deliveries!😲😲😲
cb is still OK
my dad used to run CBs on family road trips, and any time we had a multiple vehicle group. they were just the cheap 'help' portable kits that plugged into a cig lighter. they definitely helped whenever someone needed a stop or had an emergency... which happened a few times, flat tires, missed turns, etc...
My family made two 24 hour plus road trips every year - Upper Michigan to Arkansas and to Maine. The cb radio and the AM radio talk shows are a fond memory of those trips.
I been CBing since 1974 and am a Retired Truck Driver and don't plan on pulling the plug on my CB anytime soon.
@Paul Newman QSL cards my dads handle was The Big Scout KPF1882 he would hook up a 100 watt tube amplifier to his base station and talk skip all over the world his first radio was a Johnson one with three channels using crystals he installed a jack on top of the radio where you could change the crystals to different channels
@cmtmj2006 rubber ducky you're the one you make bathtime lots of fun Rubber Ducky I'm happy in love with you boo boo pa doo
@@FredTheLutinoCocatiel Hey there,Little Ajax KJR5756 here from Deerfield Mo. I grew up around CB, had a Hummingbird Linear amp warming my feet under the desk. It's output is still classified.
CB radio sounds 100 times better than a cellphone when you live in a rural area.
Ben Cooke you have that right my grandpa and his buddy’s still talk on the ol cobra 1000 home unit like it’s the seventies
Dang right!
The infrastructure for these phone services is actually pretty garbage, and often outdated. This is why, funnily enough, it often sounds better when you talk through a decent voip over the internet than it does your actual normal calling.
Phones today have surprisingly good mics, but you hardly hear it during normal phone calls. This is why the HD calling some offer sounds so much better. Because it's basically a voip program.
There's a couple of guys out my way that talk every night for about an hour starting at 8pm. lol @@truckstuffmore875
Ben Cooke you live around central Mississippi might be them their call signs are short stump birddog and cockeye
I've always thought of CB as an intercom system between semi-trucks. It disturbs me to see how many big trucks no longer seem to have CBs.
I've now got two CB's. One I use as a base station, and the other I carry in my car. For me, my CB radios were money well spent. On my way to Cincinnati yesterday, there were two accidents. One that resulted in a car fire near the on ramp to I-71 south (where I normally get on the freeway), the other was a fatality north of a little place called Washington Courthouse. I knew about both of them thanks to my CB. I hope you find yours as useful.
...working in the woods you're required to have a cb just to call out mile markers while traveling the roads. Unless you want to be a bug on a big windshield. Out there there's no left/right side of the road unless you know someone's coming. The trucks stay in the center until they can't.
I’m in Columbus and like you I still have my CB’s a 72’ Regency CR185 and a newer Cobra 2, I love having a backup communication system.
@@besticudcumupwith202 same here hauling coal, we’d call coming off the top loaded or coming up empty etc. like you said there’s no passing lane.
There are almost always wrecks in those places lol
The answer is, nothing is as fun as it was back in the 70's. The end.
D. Jones some good times were had for sure ! Such a great time to be alive and a teenager!
And every generation after that will say that 20 years prior were the fun years.
@@KeithsReviews the 70s sound pretty cool. I was born 2001. We can't do shit without getting in trouble and the future looks shit for the west with the erosion of all freedoms. That's why everyone plays a good old game of rope neck in the forest.
@@kazsmaz Technology has destroyed a lot of things. The 80s and 90s still had a lot of charm. Honestly it was after 9/11/2001 that everything went to shit.
Oh yeah it was FUN.. tracking down Winnies that threw dead carriers by locking down there mics.. people would start going on in there Mobiles to track and find them either some unknown base or mobile doing it.. sometimes a real physical fight would happen because of it or an agreement that turned into someone going out looking for someone,. and back then they didn't have all this anti-violence crap going one to protect cowards that tried to screw someone over.. this Anti - Violence preaching garbage was started by the Clintons,. now We have mass shootings going on.. instead of a Good ole Melee to get it out of your system
If CB's were still used in all the trucks you wouldn't see as many multi vehicle pileups on the freeway. You cant warn people with your cellphone
Honestly thats the only time I hear the CB talking. Is Either to tell each other what lanes you need to be in or just bullshittin while stuck in a jam.
Most newer vehicles do not have any place to install a CB. Also a lot of the larger trucking companies will not allow the drivers to have CB radios and some companies even have cell phone signal blockers that will not allow a signal while the truck is in motion. These rules are mandated by the insurance companies. Those same companies are trying to extend those same policies to personal vehicles. Keep an eye on your state legislators!
@@quickshot100 you can tell that the rules are made by people who have no idea what a truck even is
You can warn people with your cell phone. Get the Waze app.
Is that not what variable signs are for?
One of the first things I did when I bought my RV, after retiring, is put a CB radio in it. I got a little mini winning but I do a lot of traveling and certain areas it's pretty dead. But once you get on the interstates for the most part you can almost always find somebody that's chattering or somebody to strike up a conversation with if you need to
Just picked up this same CB, gonna get home and try to set it up. Dad and grandpa were both truckers. Grandpa was “Roadside” and dad was “Greasey” or Grease Monkey. I do roadside assistance on big rigs now so excited to start using it.
Update: must not be doing something right. Power to the cigarette lighter and magnetic antenna but it’s used, I’ll buy a new Little Wil and a SWR meter too.
I still use mine everyday. And so does the hundreds of thousands I hear on there every day. If people would quit texting and looking on facebook while driving, there would be 70% less accidents on the highway.
I noticed right away with my first cb, that keying a mic and scrubbing through channels isn't nearly as distracting as a cellphone notification sound.
I have a yardsite along a highway and i gotta say, its a bit scary knowing that people pull full superbees while texting on their phone. You can see them go by all the time, but anyone with even a slightly custom truck, its rare to see them on their phones. Most times truckers who text and drive are in white volvos or freightliner cascadias.
At least 70 percent
I agree completely
And 70% more cb's
I get ignored most of the time but when my wife talks the truckers have tons of fun talking to her...
“Yuup!”
Have to make sure she isn’t getting pumped by some of them otherwise you is cuckoled boy!! Lol
Thar ya go, get a Female Voice Emulation Module to find out what's going on.
that's the way it is brotha
Christopher Olsen: Her handle wouldn't happen to be "Candy Cane" would it? LOL
Been ages, but single CB antennas benefit from a full length whip. Most truckers had duals mounted on the edge of the mirror frame. 10 miles was not uncommon if it wasn't too hilly.
Honestly the best part of CB's was you got to talk to new folks, without the danger of talking to new folks. Your not exchanging numbers, etc. etc. That makes it significantly different the amateur radio where your regulated by call signs.
Ratchet jaw
I'm glad you found someone with a CB. I'm on the same truck. It's hard to find any commo with other CB's. I have the Cobra 19 Ultra on my pickup truck and a Midland 75-822. They work very well but then again not to many people with CB's out there. Thanks for shearing. Saludos from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
I drive trucks, I'll tell you CB's are still happening
Didn't truckers move from channel 19 to 39 a long time ago? What channel do they use now?
Randy Stegemann 19 typically unless you’re having a conversation with someone you’ll switch to another channel so you’re not hogging channel 19
If my trucks moving my radio is on
Just not on the I25 corridor.
@@rephnoress3942 Or the 40. Or the 1. Or the 5. Or the 80. Or the 10. Shall I go on? I can.
Let's bring CB radio back!! Ten four.
Steve Kuykendall Amen I agree, using my husband phone, see you, this is Maria from scavenger’s treaso
I use my CB Daily and Drive Truck
Steve Kuykendall I’ll give u a big 10-4 on that me and my friends use it everyday headed to school
Working on putting one in my jeep.
They use single side band here in Washington they run a net on ch 40 Lsb every. Saturday night at 6 pm. Puget sound 11 meter SSB Net.
Brother you're cracking me up getting radio checks from truckers that are probably 100 feet from you ( you are at burbank blvd and they are at burbank blvd) but also it's inspiring me to setup my base station since i'm on a hill not too far from you. You know what I'm gonna do it! For inspiring me I'm going to give you some radio tech tips: don't say breaker just say break as in break one nine, the best mobile antenna is also the cheapest: a 102 inch steel whip mounted dead center, it's fun driving around town smacking all the trees and breaking the florescent lights at the drive through and CB radio works by a line of sight: if you can see something you can talk to it: drive up on a mountain top. Thanks for making this video
That embedded SWR calibration/meter is nice. Radio Shack use to charge a pretty penny for a separate SWR meter.
Yes I would like to see CB make a comeback it's like a wireless party line and it reminds me of Smokey and the bandit!!! 😀
Vic' back in the day that's exactly how it was. A lot of fun. Just regular folks joking around. I miss it.
I got a couple of em sittin on the shelf waitin for the comeback, comeback!
It’s making a comeback!! 320 the snowman
@@bobdillashaw4360 No. Some rediscover it but it's like facebook now - full of arguments, angst and idiots. Realistically, why would it be any different to FB?
ThePaulv12 didn’t hear hardly any arguments on 38lsb, as that’s where I normally parked, now in the past 2 years because of conditions being non existence, I can’t imagine to many arguments going on, now that might be going on with channel 6, but again, I don’t use am and haven’t since the late 90s, but as for making a comeback, yes it is, all the videos like cb radio show and tell, and the like are getting people interested again, maybe not as fast as you’d like but then again conditions suck and people like this dude in the video need to be educated in how all this works! Had a dude who was new to cb asking where he could get a good “skip radio”😳 I had to tell him there was no such thing, and went on to explain how skip works and gave him pointer on better equipment, while everyone else was berating him, that kind of shit will keep people away from the radio, they need encouragement and help, not being laughed at or called an idiot! As for being like Facebook, it was much like Facebook back in 88 all through the 90s, so what! Took a break for some years came back in 2014 and it wasn’t know where near as shitty as it was back then unless you went to ch 6!
im 30, I keep the cb on everytime I travel.
Its saved me many times. The Cb should be on in every truck it saves lives.
Just too many douchebags/Fake tough guys on it now.
Cb receiver should be in ever car
I'm 32 and keep mine on as well Haha
I'm 27 and I'm thinking about getting both a CB radio and HAM radio. I've been studying for my HAM radio tech license, but looking for the right place and time to be able to take it. I used to have a CB in my car in school and was incredibly handy if I didn't feel like paying the $4 to use my phone's navigation (VZ Navigator on my Samsung Juke, LG Chocolate, and LG Dare.
@@teamramrodmtb if you are on the west coast the Los Angles group that does testing is only 5 dollars where as AARL testing is 15 if on the east coast I don't know how accurate this is but a Florida group used to do it for free.
@@plaguenation4722 Thanks for mentioning that. I'm about 60 miles from Buffalo and Rochester NY so I'm more of an east coast. They do testing near either city for around $10 which isn't bad.
I am in the exact same boat you are in. I bought a CB radio about four weeks ago for cross country trip, wasn’t getting any responses with my radio checks, and then finally had a conversation with a guy on I 90 in Billings, Montana. I was super stoked after we were done talking.and I agree, I’d love to see CB radios make a comeback! Good video!
I’ve been using Cb radio since age 14.
My first radio was the old Kraco 23 channel.
Awesome little radio. I’ve owned many many radios. Cobra, Kraco, Panasonic, Radio Shack, Galaxy n Connex. I run a cobra148 in my semi an a cobra 29LX on my pickup.
Became a ham operator in 2020 . Did the mods on my HF rigs to listen to my trucker buds from home. Now I operate on 1.25cm,70cm,2m,10m,11m,12m,15m,17m,20m,30m,40m,80m n 160m
Will always be running a radio.
73’s keep the videos coming
CB radio are very necesary. Here on Puerto Rico after the Huricane Maria, we lost every single comunication. And then the autorities found out that the only way of communication was the CB radio. I meet a guy to work for Cobra here on PR and from here he got comunication with he's friend on Georgia. Excuse my english.
Your english is god enough!
So great to hear you could use oldtimer technology when it got bad. So guess its a good idea to kep them old Cb's running!
Over and out.
That's exactly why I got a pair of CB's for the family. When the grid goes down - it has and it will - anyone with a cb will be a communication god.
yeah anyone thinking cb ham are dead has never been in an emergency away from cell coverage.
I’ve made several ham radio contacts into Puerto Rico recently from just off the coast of Texas. Ham radio 🙂
Yeah, I'd love to see CB radio come back strong again. I used to have a mobile and a base station in the early 90's and i miss it quite a bit. Just bought a new CB radio and I'm looking for someone to install it for me as I'm not really good at that sort of thing.
I got a cb radio when I was 16 yrs old.I'm 71 now.The biggest thrill I had was when the atmosphere was just right (called skip)at night and would talk to other states and would send each other QSL cards in the mail as proof.Everyone had different design cards.Yeah It was fun.
In my younger days my father and I got a skip one time from where we were in Illinois all the way down to Florida.
I had QSL cards from all over america, italy and many others, i live in england uk.
I still have my CB radio but it's not setup. I used to love talking DX on skip. Made many QLS's and sent and received a few QSL cards with people in other parts of this country. I am in Australia but I used to make regular contact with a bloke in Indonesia and also spoke into Hawaii and California a few times up on 38 LSB with the beam antenna I built. Great times and great fun. Wanting to put my CB back in the car and see if I can make some contacts again. 489 out!
Skip conditions at night? You must be talking SW frequencies. For me using 27MHz (11 meter) the skip ran during the day when the ionosphere was being energized by the sun. But I do also remember listening to very far away AM radio stations only at night.
Oh man does that bring back memories!
My first CB was a crystal controlled unit where you needed to install different crystals for a new frequency. My unit had 3 channels... We had to have FCC licenses for CBs back then and I can remember when they reduced the license fee for $4 (IIRC)... And then came the 23 channel units... Wow... What would we ever do with 23 channels? And then came the 40 channel units... It's probably been 45+ years since I've been on CB, but I still remember my license number... Strange how useless pieces of information like that stick in your head... After I got out of the military, I never got back into CBs again... Back then, motorcycles were my only means of transportation and they were not conducive to 2-way radio operation...
Don't know if I'll ever bother to install one in a car again... I could see it as having a use if I was offroading with a group of people in terrain where you might need to communicate with a spotter, but I don't live in that sort of terrain...
Get a Cobra handheld. You can use an external antenna and a cigarette lighter adapter to conserve battery life and still get a full 4 watts power Cobra handhelds are excellent!
im 64, my dads license number in the 60s was kpn3823...................
Back in the 90's, I did repairs in a CB shop in Elfers Florida and for the crime watch in my subdivision. Swear to God, true story. The shop I worked at was a new mom and pop shop. The husband's name was Mike. One day, both he and his wife were at the shop so they sent a note to school with their kids asking for them to ride the bus that ran by the shop. In the afternoon, the kids came into the shop and Mike brought them back to my work room. He said, "Jeff, these are our two kids, Michael Jr. and Crystal." I said, "Leave it to a CB guy to name his kids MIKE AND CRYSTAL." He looked at his wife strangely wide eyed. "I never thought of that!"
My wife and I are in our 20's, yet I joke all the time that I'm going to ditch my cell phone and use a CB.
She thinks I'm joking.
My girl friend and I had very different incomes. She could spend $60 dollars a day on coffees in cafes. But she needed to have hours of chat through the night on the phone which due to costs I couldn't reciprocate as she had a nervous disorder and received money to help. So $50 dollars per night was not unusual. The cheaper option was she got a cab or for my part to reciprocate I could invest in CB. So spending a few hundred on a good system made loads of dollar sense. Then she could talk as long as she liked.
LOL
@kingofallcrypto
What CB? Lol. Since the Millennials destroyed the oceans and polar Ice Caps. We who live in the post apocalyptian era under the psychedelic orange glowing 24 hr a day sky need CB just to keep informed about where the Zombies and piranha-penguins are. We're lucky the USA hasn't contacted the Aliens yet. They may be out there. They may be intelligent. They may have learnt to speak English from the USA. But they may have no purpose for nice people.
@j mcmann
It wasn't the smoke which travelled at light speed. It was the light of the naked fire. Worked as long as the invasion wasn't on a misty or foggy day or night.
@j mcmann Indian style smoke signals were very vulnerable. They rose up above the elevated place so others could see the 'Alert' was signalled. A few grey clouds behind them and they merge with the background. A cross wind blows them a cross and out of sight. In the High Rockies finding enough dry brushwood for a fire may not always be possible. The speed of smoke is not the same as the speed of light. Smoke would be dependant upon there being light. At night a house could be on fire and you won't see any smoke from a distance.
Seeing the light is dependant upon there being some light to see. Lighting beacons were used centuries before the Indian smoke signals were ever heard of out side of the Americas.
I use mine in the woods because it's required on gravel roads. I don't use it on the freeway because everyone curses like drunk sailors and I don't want my kids to hear it.
Jimmy, good work man. I am also a CB enthusiast and trying to revive its use, but it looks pretty empty in the air.
10 Million other people in my city and not a single voice to be heard on any channel most days. If you do hear something it's almost always in Spanish on 5 or 7 or in Jive on 6. Also I live 200 feet from Interstate 10. Nothing. I have a Vector up 30 feet using RG213 hooked to a Cobra 2000 with all new caps. Tested all to hell. It's perfect. Not a single voice all day. Dead.
I've got one in my van. Best use for me is to find out which lane is open if there is an accident ahead. I use Waze but it doesn't tell me which lane the wreck is in. I'll just call on the CB and find out that way I can get in the correct lane well ahead of time. Love it.
I'm getting back into it. I was into it big time back in the 70's. I had a Cobra 139 base station, a 40 foot tower with a Moonraker 4 antenna with rotor. On sideband it would reach out 20 miles. I just cleaned up my old Pearce Simpson Cheetah SSB CB radio. I hope it still works. My handle was Hang Glider and I was a real bucket-mouth LOL.
Holy roller was my pastor
Those are definitely the Good Ole days for CB I remember them well my brother and I were Kings of the foxhunt. We used to lose on purpose so other people would play.
I just bought 102 in steel whips for 2 weeks ago and received an SWR meter yesterday that I ordered. I'm down here in Florida there might be somebody to talk to I live down here in the 80s had a base station and talked a lot of skip.
I know that excitement. I was ten when my dad first gave me mine in 1984. I would talk to him when he left for work and came home. He had an old CB in his truck and I had a Radioshack walkie talkie CB. I got about a mile, he got about four. I miss him, wish he was here to see/ help us build our truck camper/BOV. Cheers.
My Dad used to drive me out into the country, drop me off somewhere and drive, just to see how far we could talk. I had a pair of 100 mw walkie talkies that were reputed to talk 40 miles! Like FRS radios today, that was highly exaggerated. However, we did get six miles. The fun part was doing it with my Dad. I miss him, too.
My Dad always had CB's in the house and car over here in the UK back in the 80's and it has always fascinated me. He got his Ham ticket back in the early 1990's and I, along with mhy brother, got my Foundation Ham license (max of 10w) back in 2004 and i'm still fascinated by it today at the age of 42.
Even though I have my Ham license, I still have a CB in the shact, just not wired up, but this video has inspired me to give it a go again and go back to my roots.
Sadly, my Dad passed away in 2014, but he has given me the gift of a hobby for my entire lifetime and I will keep his spirit alive in every contact I make.
Have a great day folks!
Bless you, friend 🙏
@@tomfuller5585 my Dad used to drive me out to the country and leave me, but I always found my way home somehow.
@@osunatransport9116 Haha. Mine usually came back to get me.
Jim that was fun, New Sub. I drove a Stingray a long time and you talk about SWR?
The Corvette is fiberglass, so no way I could get CB to work in my car. Halfway decent anyway.
Minivan? BIG DIFFERENCE! Wow. That was fun.
The signal does not follow the surface well with a basic antenna for local but for talking Skip? Way better!
It's not what you have, it's where you put it baby
I really wanna install a CB on my minivan. I've lived in it off and on over the last year and a half and in that time, I drove on just about every major interstate in the country. It gets really lonely driving long-haul like that, especially if you very rarely get to actually go home and spend time with familiar faces. It would be so nice to have that instant communication ability next time I'm living in the van. Not to mention the fact that it makes reporting on the status of accidents, traffic jams, speed traps and all sorts of other conditions that happen on the roadway so much easier.
Years ago, I was full out CB.
Home base and in the car.
I was it, in a large valley.
CB is independent, no towers.
If SHTF your phone is useless.
Buy a CB radio.
Might save you life someday.
Saved mine in a rollover way
up in the mountains.
In SHTF a CB is also useless if you have no power to put in it...
@@ElektroLUDIKITS :
I'm surprised anyone couldn't know,
about that new solar power thing they invented.
You should check it out.
@@TahoeJones Thing is, SHTF will most possibly be climate-related situations (no surprise). It often mean lots of wind + rain and no sun...
@@ElektroLUDIKITS :
Climate related?
Solar works when it's cloudy, just slower.
Waterwheel generators work great. Cancels your rain theory.
The dangers are: meteor, solar flare, or EMP as an act of war.
Adjustment to climate change has historical success, repeatedly.
Humans are fleas on the dog, claiming they determine direction.
Try some real science. It's quite refreshing.
Uhm there is an sattelite phone and another is Ham radio
That's it, I'm going into my garage and hooking up my old Cobra CB again!!!
I busted mine out a few months ago and it's been epic!
Need update or we are calling lies :)
Do it! I've had my ham license for years. CB is just stupid fun in comparison.
FUCK YA ME TOO !! Right fuckin now......
L8bro; Amen Brother and stand with us together to have a very stronger CB RADIO WORLD ever then before. Please brother let’s spread the words around to help get it back once again. Can you y’all do this for us and for yourself too? Thanks and God Bless
I’ll be doing the same thing VERY soon. Getting my radio this week. Great video!
I was a truck driver for many years. Mostly local city. The last 20 years that I worked I had my CB on channel 19. It made me feel good to help out-of-towners that needed information. I always thought all trucks should be equipped. I don't remember exactly which radios I had through the years but my last two were Cobras. One was a small cheap one that worked fine and I remember using it for a while with a magnetic antenna. I bought an SWR meter and tuned the length of the whip. After that one I had a souped up Cobra LTD and used it for about 10 years until retiring. I went through a number of antennas, both single and dual. I don't think there was an advantage to the dual antennas but I could be wrong. I was no expert but my radio seemed to work fine most of the time unless my antenna got damaged. I only ever monitored channel 19 except for a year or so when all the drivers at a place I was working for used a different channel. That was the only time I had an actual "handle". I somehow got labeled as the "Lonely Rebel" haha. I enjoyed working with those guys. I don't know but I was told that modern CBs have many more channels than 40 and truckers are commonly using other channels than channel 19. I think there are a lot more drivers that speak a language other than English now and probably are using certain channels. I always liked helping strangers out over the radio but it was a pleasant thrill when a friend spots you and yells out to you over the radio. They knew my radio was always on😁
We live in a soulless age of faceless, voiceless, digital communication.
An endless series of quirky, scripted abbreviations.
No voice, no tonal inflections and no personality.
When we experience the sound of a voice during an interpersonal exchange, we 're-discover' communication as it was meant to be...between two or more individuals with vocal cords and the ability to express themselves accordingly.
So the evolution of communication has created an odd phenomenon...VOICE has transitioned from the common-place to a pleasurable oddity.
The absurd has become the norm.
ianrsigel .....well said!
Like when an addict finally quits - being sober is the exotic high.
So true. I just got into DMR and "souless" is a perfect description.
10w UK to Australia and India on beginners licence and restrictions!
You nailed it right there buddy!
It’s like early 2000’s chat rooms
but without the annoying icq oh oh
Kay Belay "ASL?" Hahahah I remember those chat room days
@Coolest Wookie in the Soyhole f or m?
@Coolest Wookie in the Soyhole hey brother...just had to say that I like your handle...
I often comment that it is boomer shitposting
I ran one for 33 years and have one in my 4 wheeler. Never talk about on it but still love having it. Most people do not respond to a radio check and truckers often spot 4 wheeler talk and also wont respond. It is still a very useful tool in driving but there are un written rules.
The frequency that CB uses is more conducive to long range, the ground wave portion of the transmitted signal is relatively short range. The sky wave portion of the transmitted signal can travel very far. As an example I had purchased a new ham radio and was talking to someone local on the 10 meter ham band which is not that far from the allotted CB frequencies, I could barely hear the other person across town using 100 watts but would work an individual in the Carolinas like they were sitting next to me( North Dallas Texas area to the east coast)!
Great video. We live in Northern California and love using CB. With all the Cell phone laws it is much easier to communicate legally using CB on trips or connecting with friends. We installed CB's in all our Kids cars, our vehicles, and most of our friends have CB's now making it a fun hobby.
What channels are y'all using?
I feel like CB radio will become a new Hipster craze in the near future
Nooooo. Hopefully too complicated for those hippies
banjo playing bison - I would really like to believe that, but I kind'a doubt it.
There's no place to plug in a USB data cable, and there's no app' for it, and
Alexa won't run it for you!! What's a clueless Millennial to do??!!
There are plenty of CBs with bluetooth, USB, and obnoxiously bright blue LEDs.
Doubt it, it actually requires brains to set up
@@ChannelMaster720 Imagine being such a boomer than u think a millennial is unable to install a simple CB.
CB saved me twice last winter!
I gave up on CB and ditched mine. My truck was in the shop and I was using a coworkers truck while he was on vacation an mine was being repaired. He called to see how things were going and told me to use his radio, he is very proud of it and didn’t understand why I never hooked mine up. After our conversation he told me I should turn it on during snow storms and freezing fog. With 22 years of driving experience I knew that but I also knew to just keep my eyes open. But for shits and giggles I turned it on 10 seconds after I got off the phone with him. Almost immediately I got an alert from the oncoming traffic that there were multiple accidents Lee’s than a mile in front of me. I looked ahead and seen nothing but break lights. So I got on the breaks cans quickly realized I was on black ice. Luckily I was able to get slowed down just in time. I had a similar situation 2-3 weeks later after I got my truck back and installed a new cobra!
95% of interstate truckers don't install radios. Tractors are wired/ fused for CB but with the new breed of "drivers".
It's a must for weather, accidents, scale houses and highway patrol spottings. A lot of industrial shippers require CB for working within their property. Without it, just puts safety in the back seat
Havn't CBd since the 90s but this video got me fired up to get back into it
I'm dieing to get back in, I have about 6 good radios with all the bells and whistles, but when I key up, up here in the Northwoods, there is nobody home!
Same here i had a base unit and a mobile unit
Hi I was clearing some old junk out and I found my old midland portapack cb so I'm going to use it again
@@djpaul146 ten fow rubba duckeh
@@fivestar2227 I just need to get a n indoor antenna as the built in one dosant work very well but I have got a block of flats facing me
CB is not dead. Truckers use it everyday. Of course you can't expect much for conversation, it's used for traffic info during traffic jams, wrecks, etc. CB is also used by shippers and receivers. Many Truckers do not leave their radios on unless a problem is at hand. I leave mine on when carrying an oversize load - it's especially handy with pilot car communication.
And yes It would be great if CB made a comeback. Maybe I should leave my radio on more...lol
I'm a truck driver and havent turned my fb on in years.
The reason why no one wanted to talk to him, was due to the fact that he did not know how to talk on a cb radio.. The purpose of a radio check is only to ask someone how your radio sounds, it is not to get someone to talk to you.. Just sticking a antenna on a vehicle and looking at a built in SWR meter on the radio, SWR does not indicate resonance, it only shows what the line is doing.. Remember a 50 ohm dummy load will show 1:1 - but shouldn't radiate any power.. A real antenna physically bonded to the vehicle in the middle of the roof, with bonding on all the body parts, to make the vehicle look as one big lump of steel is the only way to install a antenna.. Your problem was the wrong radio the wrong antenna mounted in the wrong place on the wrong vehicle at the wrong time in the solar cycle.. No matter what type of radio it is, be it CB radio or ham radio, it all involves physics. You have to have some intelligence in knowing how to install the radio / antenna etc.. Just buying something and sticking it up in the air will get you exactly what you saw on the video..
It's mostly trash talk now
@@boknows3841 when I was using my CB, I had a magnetic base whip stuck onto the trunk of my Camaro, and it worked fine. I only needed a few miles range anyway. Sometimes after school I'd just jump on to take a break from life and I was able to talk to people 10-15 miles away. But mostly it was to stay in touch with buddies while driving around town or to the amusement park.
Samual Whittemore I think with the CENSORSHIP coming in now days then CB should thrive 😉
I have my great grandfather's Johnson messenger 250, with microphone stand. This thing is just simply beautiful, and built like a tank filled with concrete, meaning you could roll this down a few flights of stairs and it would probably still work. I just remember all my folks had scanners and cbs running in their homes. When phones came along, they got put away.
Can't wait to get my summer/fall stuff done so I can get back into getting these old relics running again.
I bet that 250 dont work.
@@Johnny35130 oh hell no. It's been sitting in my grandfather's attic for 20 years. The thing is, if I can't get it working as is, I take the guts out and replace it with the best fit modern version. Did that to my my other great-grandfathers Halton radio (it was tube, mice had gotten in it, the speaker was disintegrated and the circuit board was a diagram on cardboard with the components on top and bottom/back and front (super old school)) It only got AM stations anyways. And he decided to coat it with deck stain. Replaced it with an old style/modern updated Panasonic transistor radio. Hardest part was getting the glass and painting the details back on. After I showed my family the work, all these old items just started pouring in. Far too much to do to dedicate alot of time to hobbies, but it's fun.
Still remember my license #, and those of a handful of friends from CB back in the late 70's. Had a base station at home, and one in my car & parents cars. I was partial to Midland brand. Cobra was popular too. It was a fun hobby, but I sure remember adjusting the SWR on our mobile antennas was more complicated than the antenna shown in the video.
CH 17 is most popular on the Interstate 5 corridor. CH 19 almost everywhere else.
source: former truck driver
Ch 21 was popular on I-10 by the Wheel Inn restaurant....went to school with the owner's daughter.
And my sister was a waitress there when they filmed Pee Wee's Big Adventure....Claude Bell built those dinosaurs.
I'm supporting you for a new CB movement for sure!
It seems to really get entertaining when traffic is held up for a length of time. When I was traveling a lot for work. I ran with one all the time. It actually helped to prevent a few crashes with slowed traffic and well just things in the road. They still have a place.
We used them in the late 80,'s. One guy in our group found out by accident that sitting in front of a store with automatic doors that they open every time he pushed the button on the mic. Nobody was near the doors.
It also turns on motion lights outside.😊
Maybe for millennials CB might be dead and for the cell phone zombies ( acronym for CB lingo: C.P.Z.'s ), but for us old farts, it's alive and kicking.
i'm 14 and I have a base station in my house and a mobile in my car
Just think about all the angry messages on a single utube disagreement imagine how much we'll be fighting over the cb radios untill we win the argument of the day
29 and had one in all my trucks since 16. Still have one that's constantly on. But it's True most kids aren't interested. Plus a Honda civic would look kinda silly with a fire stick or whip dangling around.
Far from dead
CPZ's
That's interesting.
I'll have to use that on the cell phone zombie
Thanks.
44 years ago I was 16 years old. Back in high school a bunch of us guys had Realistic brand 6 channel walkie talkies with the plug in hand held mics. We would peddle around town on our 10 speed bikes with our walkie talkies plugged into a 12 volt motorcycle battery strapped under the crossbar for extra power. Our walkie talkies were peaked for maximum wattage output usually at about 8 watts (that's all we could get without blowing the finals lol). We had a blast in a much simpler time in life. At night, we would peddle up to a high point in our city and shoot skip. It was hard for some c.b.'ers to believe that we were getting out around the world on just a walkie talkie. We had a blast. I also had the Realistic brand 1/4 wave base antenna on a 25 foot pole strapped to our chimney. I would plug my walkie talkie into that base antenna along with a pre-amp mic that transformed me into the most "bodacious station in the nation!" I was wall to wall tree top tall, ah mercy good buddy, am I getting out? Ah, those were the days! After watching this video I want to get me a brand new 40 channel radio with the sideband option. My palms and thumb are getting all sweaty just thinking about keying up that new mic! Thanks for allowing me to relive the memories of those Good'ol days! Cheers, this is the Pink Panther XM12-31113 over and out! Is that a big 10-4?
@chris beerad Sweet, those were good days! I belonged to the Blue Coast Horizons C.B. Club of Vancouver, B.C. We had a blast! I remember passing around and collecting QSL cards. Young and old alike, we would go out for coffee in the evenings, occasionally have a Saturday morning breakfast together, car rally's, hide and seek in our vehicle's by giving out glues and power meter readings. Lots of simple fun! And we would compete with our (rivals) with who had the most bodacious base station setups! I was just on Amazon looking at new radios! Ha! Cheers and all the best back at ya .. mercy, this is the Pink Panther XM12-31113 over and 10-10 on the side!
I wish you were my dad
42 years ago I started Realistic 2 channel 100mwand and 28 years later I upgrade to Technician Class Radio Ham License and about 16 years later I passed my Amateur Extra Class test. Who would think that CB radio lead me to Ham radio. CB is still a fun hobby 0n SSB. I love 10m SSB and FM.
@@93qfmhippy Hey John, how cool is that! A lot has changed in the way we communicate over the years, actually a lot has changed in virtually every thing we do nowadays!!! A simpler way of life is what I'm really wanting to get back to. Society is being manipulated and socially engineered beyound comprehension ...but that's a discussion for late nite radio lol! Cheers to you good buddy, take care. This is the Lamplighter er (aka the Pink Panther 10/10 on the side!) 👍😎
I miss the old days of knobs and switches on HF rigs, now it's SDR(Software Defined Radios) and Menus. I like new digital variable filters much clearer receivers the days
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Everything you aaid, my friend is absolute truth! I have 2 CB's and we took a trip to Tennessee a few yrs ago and we enjoyed the cb mostly on the interstate.
It's great we don't need cell towers to depend on. If the towers were ever shut down, we would always have communication at our fingertips.
I HOPE and PRAY cb radios make a DRAMATIC COMEBACK! Safer on the highways vrs cell phones! Immtruly in your corner Jimmy! I complain constantly about how they dropped off.
Thanks for your video on cb's!!!
I was a tractor-trailer driver and used to use my CB all the time from the 70s to early 90s. AWESOME!!!!
Cb is alive and well in north east Georgia channel 14 is jumping all time of the day
How about 38 LSB
Every Saturday 7:30 to 8 pm ch14 roll call represent
@@bradleyhewell784 1330 checking in
Hound Dog! Breaka... breaka...
Damn, I'm in North East GA.
this is great. Nice video, and props to that trucker, not allot of them are that cool. I grew up around Semi trucks, thanks to my grandfather and father, both drove/drive. my dad now just uses apps on his phone, lol.
When I drove trucks, I put in the cheapest radio I could find. A radio shack with weather band. I left my truck unlocked yet nobody stole my radio. I still have it.
Here in Puerto Rico after hurricane María we used CB Radio, Ham Radio, FRS, GRMRS and MURS. Been using CB Radio since 1987.
After Hurricane Iniki destroyed Kauai in 1992, CB and Ham radio was the only thing that worked for a whole year! Think of this, using FLdigi on CB with your cell, what a set up! A lot better than 146.520 mhz and everyone steppin on each other, lol!
Third world.
ModSquad in the mini grass 11 brudua
absolutely right! in Die Hard 4 we get to see one hacker using cb radio to communicate with John and there are references that in case of catastrophic events only personal radio equipments are to be functional and trusted
Bayamon in the house 💪🏻
X trucker retired I drive a motorhome on vacation cross country still use my CB to keep up with current traffic conditions when you find a trucker willing to talk. And don't use good buddy!
Whats the furthest distance you have had in a hilly area.
@@sethjenna2561 kind of depends what part I know going through the Appalachians mile and a half tops. There's so many factors that comes in the play some truckers used to have 200 watts illegal of course or it was back then I'm an old man now not really up to date.
I have a radio in my motorhome and my swrs are through the roof! I cannot figure out how to get my SWR rating lower, if anybody has any ideas I'd appreciate it. The RV has aluminum body panels and it's 30 ft long I am running an 8ft 2in whip antenna.
@@michaelburke5750 I am no expert by long shot but you need to find a way to ground your antenna not sure where you got it mounted or if you got it mounted at all.
@@nautiquecowboynautiquecowb5317
The antenna is mounted on the fiberglass cap on the driver side and I have a straight shot ground run to the frame. That leaves me with approximately 32 ft of ground on the chassis frame. You would think with a whip antenna and that much ground my SWR rating would be perfect but I'm in the high 3's.
I have my Ham license and a truck driver of 16 years. I just bought a 2011 Crown Vic Police Interceptor and installing both. It's a great bug out vehicle and it's great to have both on road trips.
I have my CB on every day. I love it. There isn’t a lot of traffic on them anymore but when an accident happens or something that backs traffic up it’ll pick up.
You mentioned all the trucks have their antennae’s, but not talking. That’s because most trucks come with them, and are completely wired to install a CB in a few minutes. Less than half the fellow trucks I drive by have a cab installed. Wish it was more.
CB needs to be revitalized. It is a communication tool that you can still use while driving.
Walter K I agree!! I used one daily back in the later 70s
Very good point. Cell phones are like smoking - so many laws against them. But smoking pot is ok they say. SMH.
Caution: A few states have made PTT communications while driving illegal.
@@1L6E6VHF please cite such a law as all I found (via google) was assertion that two-way radio communication was exempt from the hand-held device restrictions.
1L6E6VHF
All I can find is PTT is illegal in the UK. Link to where it states that PTT communications are illegal in the US?
Truckers never reply to "breaker one-nine" any more... if you sound like a CB nerd on 19, you're going to get ignored. Next time... use a Billy-bob drawl and just say "Anybody hear this radio? Is it working?" Seriously, this is what you need to do. I drove a truck for 25+ years... I'm telling you true. :)
Also... hold the mic closer to your mouth, or your voice will lose all of it's bass tone, it'll sound tinny or high.
Funny how people just pick a subject they know nothing about and then try and make money on YouTUbe. He does not know shit about cb's. I don't think he even knows the uses for a cb, and certainly a cell phone, twitter,facebook have not a damn thing to do with it! The talking on Cb's has gotten to the point you can't even get on and when you do it is some smartass rookies talking nasty shit so the real truckers don't get on unless they go to a different channel or stay off until they need it like at a factory where they use them a lot! You can't use twitter to get around a factory or twitter when your in a snowstorm to help you not get killed or twitter to help you find a warehouse when your cell is dead or twitter to tell the guy ahead of you his brakes are smoking....do your research before you post something you know nothing about!
@@jeffeverett830 I know this guy is dumb, I'm glad he's not smart enough to get his ticket for 2 meter. This idiot prob would call out break 19 on 146.5200 mhz. I hate people that do videos like this. The reason CB traffic is dying is because this weekend warrior is on it........... Oh and there is facebook twitter instagram for the idiots also.....
@@tullyman82 he looks like a frail pussy. what did you expect?
He's also using breaker wrong. When there is a conversation going on, you say breaker or break to request a break in the convo so you can talk. If its silent on the channel, you just talk cause their is nothing to break up.
@@tullyman82 Everyone is smart enough to get their 2 meter license these days. When I took the test, you actually had to know something - without the books - and build a small circuit. Nowadays, you can just walk in and basically get your 2 meter tech license. It's ridiculous. Just basic radio etiquette mostly.
When I started Truckin cross country 43 years ago my cb was a major source of entertainment and it kept me and other drivers awake while we drove away the miles. I gave up Truckin a few years back, but I now have a room full of ham radios and my cb radios are still in there and still on the air. One with a Solarcon A- 99 and the other with a Solarcon Imax 2000. With a solar panel, a 12 volt battery, an antenna, and a charge controller the cb radio will always work.
Good stuff! I’m a local truck driver in Washington State and use CB almost all day 🤙🏼
It is still popular here in Western Arkansas you get into the mountains on the old logging trails to hunt and cell phones don't work. Even our police still monitor channel 9 in case of an accident in the hills.
Todd ditto still alive in AR!
Still going in central ar
Still going here in Texas. Better than a radar detector, works even when cell towers go down or too far, and lets us talk w/o breaking the law.
Thanks. Good to know.
Glad to know that, thank you!
CB radio isn't dead. You're just not where it's being used. Keep playing with it and you'll have fun when you catch skip.
He's just kidding - it ain't dead
ZommBleed the big rig driver still have them.
My truck doesn't have one. They keep breaking. This evening I might go pick another one up.
Gotta get on that 38lsb when the skip is Rollin. Ive talked from Galveston TX to Melbourne Australia on a cobra 148 gtl stock with a home made inverted V dipole antenna.
uscgwagner I just bought a Uniden 980 ssb to put in my cab in the morning. I'll se how it checks out. Heard a lot of good things about them.
Hello I'm Randy from Chatsworth,Ga we still use CB radios down here in the south for a lot of stuff like finding a warehouse, a rest area, or to see if the scales are open or closed.
Some of us run on different channels like 5,12,15,19,21,25,30,and36 from about Nashville,Tn to almost the Florida state line.
Thanks for this! I am KB6YD, but want to expand my contact-ability. I'm on the interstates in the Southwest often, and so consider putting together a mobile CB to know and share where the bears and the best choke n pukes are. ;) 73!
We still use the CB in the UK Birmingham city area and is still very active and its just like the 80s again :)
I remember that scene around there in those days. Fun times with my Midland.
Ours is more just a chat ...not much trucker talk any more
....you mean 70’s? Or did Europe get citizens band in the 80’s?
Yes, CB should make a comeback and be here to stay! Cellphones are nice but what happens when those lines of communication no longer function, you'll wish you had a CB. Good idea to have a backup system for communication.
As well, some areas may seem dead, while others are thriving. Here, most locals use 38LSB. When traveling, it's still the best way to hear about radar traps and/or accidents on ch.19. Truckers will alert you to any problems 50 miles down the road...
I invested in handheld two way radios that can do 2 meter and 70cm. I programmed the. To hit any open repeaters on my normal routes and emergency routes as well. I tested them and I am not licensed so I try not being annoying to them.. but I hit repeaters out 10 miles away in handheld mode with stock antenna pretty easily.... sometimes hidden repeater... I found a school was using repeaters on 2meter band for school buses.. wasn’t registered on unlicensed data base but it worked very well, I tested it out on weekends at night when I know wasn’t in use and it reached pretty far, probably by design it reached more than just across town, 30 solid miles away it was still usable even in the backwoods.. sadly they recently killed that system and I don’t know if school bus drivers upgraded radios into trucked radios or if they retired radio systems altogether using modern tech like iPads and iPhones... just know a few months ago that band was dead and and nothing when I tried using it and still dead today..
Sad and weird to see all radios and communications going on same towers more and more and some even sharing cellular bands with towers... while those towers are very robust they aren’t perfect and can be targets if ever a real life SHTF situation and some group wanted to kill communications having it all on 1 tower is such an easy target.. like tornados hit a few areas this year destroyed a few towers ad killed all communications but cuz the police and other emergency services had their own repeaters and stuff they didn’t see any interruptions..
@@Honeypot-x9s If your not licensed you can be tracked down and fined and possibly arrested I do not recommend it unless in which FCC part 97 guide lines state in an emergency where there is immediate threat to loss of life and or property damage. and I highly recommend NEVER using it on police fire or ems frequencies unless you want to be caught fast.
@@plaguenation4722
> fast
If you're causing malicious interference on any frequency, the FCC is sure to come looking for you in 6 months to 6 years.
If you're on an unauthorized frequency but not bothering anyone, then no one will complain, and the FCC will never have the manpower to check out violations like that.
Use it or lose it....with regard to spectrum allocation. FCC can take it away. Never relinquish a freedom or a right.
I did a coast to coast, Feb this year, from San Jose California to Middle Town New York. On the way back, I get a cheap set up from Walmart. I pretty much had it on all the way. Most time it's silent or trash. But it will be busy when there is a traffic jam. The guys behind will ask about the situation, guys at front will report what's up ahead, which lane is blocked, police, fire truck, tow truck action, etc. Really informative. And when in snow storm, every one are lined up behind the plow truck. After the plow truck finish their sector and exit the free way, the driver says something like, my job is done, thanks for your patient, and drive safe.
About radio check, yup, in San Jose, I never count on other one with their radio on and willing to reply me. So, I simply get 2 sets of radio to check each other. lol
Now I have a Cobra 29LX MAX mounted on my truck, and a Cobra RT50 hand hold one. The hand hold one has 2 uses, first is give to my friend when we drive together, replace the antenna with an external long antenna, it works like ordinary radio. The second use it is when hiking around our camping site, I take it and keep the radio on my truck on, so I can tall to people in camping side anytime, without worrying about phone signal.
Last time I go out for driving, one of my friends has a CB on his truck. I feel it's much much handy than phone, because you don't need to dial before talking, and you are not limited with phone signal quality. Just pick the mic, press PTT, then talk.
-Tom, are you sleepy?
-Not at all.
-Are you hungry?
-Umm, tiny a little bit.
-Okay we have 2 hours to our destination, we will set up BBQ first.
-Ah, sounds good.
It's been a while since I've had the CB antenna on my Jeep. If you want longer range when communicating with people in front of you, put the antenna on the back of your vehicle that's supposed to help with your range. When you were showing the installation of your antenna I thought you were going to talk about the tuning of it? I've never done it but I've heard that there is an adjustment up and down with the antenna rod and you set it with the Allen wrench. I always ran with a royce CB I have no idea what the model number of it was and then when multiple cars had a Midland handheld CB that could be hooked up with an exterior antenna or a flexible one right on the CB. Way back I always thought it was Channel 19 for the truckers and then either Channel 11 or 13 for regular traffic.
Guy: CB is dead and sucks
5 minutes later guy: CB iS sO COoL
Hey dude, sorry to say it’s not dead as you say cause a let of people still uses it but not in the channels that we all off. They are different channels and uses a lot the ssb. We can’t have that kind thinking and thoughts in our mines. We must think positive and not negative, you really need to do your research on this matter and be for real with yourself and others.
@@dennisjbalgassr tf are you on about mate
Watch Smokey and the Bandit, and you will want one, trust me.
My Uncle bought a Trans AM the year that movie came out, complete with the factory CB option! lol
Jenny Stardust my favorite movie! Got a beagle named Smokey and had a bird dog named Bandit lol
@@neoasura it's good to be rich
Jenny Stardust
Agreed. If we put that movie back in theaters for a few days, we’d have bucket mouths everwhere.
Josh Rick I’m not a stripper, and you are definitely not cool enough to watch Smokey and the Bandit.
a former trucker told me that its illegal to have a ham radio in a commercial vehicle, if thats correct, I would assume that most trucks have their radio off or are pre occupied. But I would love CBs to come back, I have been trying to revive it forever out here in ND
Pulled out my cb i had packed away in 1977. I hooked it up to my ham radio 40m homebrew antenna and got a safe swr match which surprised me. I called for a radio check and got a contact on first call. It shocked me. 1) I didn’t hear any traffic before hand. 2). I was surprised that being horizontally polarized that I contact someone within 3miles. 3) The radio had not been touched in 45 years.
Hell yes! I'm putting a CB in my 4x4 f250. I think the CB is coming back and is an incredibly useful tool in a tough situation.
Yep, too bad Radio Shack is going under or gone already.
Definitely coming back, because I'm doing the same thing!
I'm going to do the same.
I'm replacing the coax in my F350 4wd that got damaged years ago. Just catching up after years of radio silence.
CB range is pretty much useless. The range sucks, charity sucks, and not a whole lot of channels to choose from.
My 550 channel VHF has a base range of 25 miles, crystal clear on both ends .
8:03. That is so me when I get a decent radio check without any smart ass remarks! Feels good to know some people (truck drivers and non truck drivers) still have a cb. New drivers look at a cb radio the same way we look at our parents when they talk about records and record players...lol.... thanks for the upload my friend. I run up to that area quite a bit. I hope I hear you on 19... glad to know someone out there is trying to keep it going....you rock!!!
As an over the road driver, my cb was off most of the time. I would, however, turn it on when I hit traffic or during bad weather in the winter. The chatter gets annoying but when it's nice to know what's up ahead, I turn it on.
CBs were once so popular that auto manufacturers integrated them into their AM/FM radios and offered them as a factory installed option.
Turn your rf and mic gain wide open and squelch off .. get closer to the mic so that you fully modulate the carrier. Enjoy your radio! It's not dead .. Good Job! What's your handle Jimmy? By the way, "Jimmy" back in the day was a type of truck. Improve upon your antenna system (you might want to include the Wilson 1K) if you do anything at all and leave the radio alone. You have the perfect vehicle .. Click click!
Mave the mic gain set at maximum as default, and specking loundly with mic close, can be sure way to inure no one is going to respond the to the jerk, putting out a signal that wider then neccessary resulting in poor intelligibility.
I've had a CB in my home sense I was a kid (8 years old 1962 Tuson AZ) there was only 10 people on in the whole town. My dad and Grand paw got one. We did search and rescue with it. Got stuff from the store. had clubs, it inspired me to be an RF engineer and a radio physis proff. If used right they are fantastic and do things no other type of unit can. Have fun!
All i have is a little Cobra 50 WX ST not a bad little ht
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Kind Regards.
Toss the stock mic and get a ceramic. Get the full size Wilson 1000.
CB I don't think is really dead... A lot of people just don't pay attention to it until there are situations. A good snow storm or traffic backup will light your CB right up.
CB chatter has saved me a lot of hours sitting in traffic. I know what's coming ahead and I can plan detours accordingly.
One particular instance comes to mind. I was in the yard hooking up my set listening to the chatter.
Seems there was a bad accident interstate 90 in Wisconsin near Tomah Wisconsin headed East. Traffic was backed up for miles.
Because of the chatter, instead of taking i-90 I opted to take highway 12 East to bypass the situation.
I'm glad I did. I got to talkin to one of my coworkers that had no CB and he got on i-90 and was immediately met with a wall of stop traffic. He said it took almost 2 hours off his day.... Meanwhile I bypassed the whole situation in a matter of 15 minutes.
My Garmin Dezl 770 alerted me to a bad traffic jam ahead on I-77 and detoured me around it two days ago. My CB has saved me a couple times but I usually have it off preferring to listen to talk radio or podcasts.
@@terrywaters6186 nice. My Garmin dezl has done the same for me... But only after I got alerts from CB chatter.
I live in a small logging community in NW Oregon. On the state hwy that runs through town, the log truck drivers still use CB. I drive school bus for the local school district and our buses are equipped with both a Business Band radio (duplex through a repeater to extend range) and a CB radio. My route it nearly all highway and as a courtesy to the loggers and lumber trucks I share the hwy with I call out mile posts so that the truckers are aware of where on the hwy I am and I all call all my stops so that the truckers won't come around a curve and be surprised that I'm their stopped with my red lights flashing. I've had many truckers thank me for warning them I'm stopping on the highway.
The drivers for the school district in the next county also do this (they use the same hwy just a little farther away.
I would love if it came back. When I was a kid my dad and uncles talked with cb radios all the time and I thought it was so cool. I tried to get into it about 10 years ago but didn't find hardly anyone to talk to. The only ones who really talk around here are hunters during hunting season, but they just talk to each other to find where the deer are and where their dogs are. They aren't interested in talking with people they don't know. Maybey I should try to find a radio and give it another try. Thanks for the vid.
In Northern Canada, the CB radio is there to stay. It is even dangerous to drive on the gravel roads in the forest without communicating your position through CB.
same here in the pacific Northwest of the states
@@michaelcarroll2792 Cb is making a comeback too. I make pretty decent money between sales and repairs
I'm in Northern BC and we use VHF resource road channels for forest/logging/mining roads. The largest four wheel drive club in BC has more hams that are members of the club than the largest ham club in BC...CB is pretty quiet here, basically just RVs in the summer.
@@BobHolowenko in Northern Quebec, due to the megaload trucks used in forestry, it is kind of dangerous not to signal your position and direction through a CB radio. There are road indicators. Showing the channel that needa to be used.
@@bogdanst74 yep, that's what the resource room channels are for here.... safety
i love CB radios and HAM radios, lets bring CB back Bro's!!!!
I agree
I just got me a BearTracker 885
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My first CB radio was a Realistic Mini Six, from Radio Shack. I bought it in 1972, when I was 17. I joined Centinela Valley REACT, in Southern California. That opened up quite a world for me! I met a lot of great people, and had a lot of fun helping people! Eventually, I got my HAM license, and moved on. But, I'll always have some great memories of my days as a CBer!
I had a CB for several years recreationally, and had so much fun with it during my 60+ daily miles of work commute. I miss it so much that I'm getting myself another one! How's that Lil' Will working out for you?
Some shippers use the CB, to check in and get your load, etc. It's still something you need as a trucker! A setup like you got is good, I used a setup like that, so I could hot seat from truck to truck!
Your in SoCal. 90% of the truckers in Cal are foreigners and no speaky english. They don't run 19.
i hear a lot of Arabs in my area. :/
Or millennials on their cell phone
Try 17 is for north and south. 19 east west
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@@miguelcastaneda7236 your a troll. Shut the hell up
In the seventies in Australia at Cape York peninsula I had a conversation with the truckers in California on the skip. Owesome
How the fuck you do that ???
Do your selves a favor and Google radio skip. It's unpredictable but certain frequencies "skip" off the atmosphere and can go hundreds of miles or more.
My legal power CB has allowed me to talk to people in Texas from Ohio on the sideband.
At the Cape York witch is the northern tip of OZ talking to the truckers in California I was helped by " liniear amplifier" that gave me 100wats of additional juice to push out so I was able to go that far but it sucked out the battery power and being at least 600 Kim from anywhere did not push my luck,after all you can not push diesel 4wd. Actually I still to this day own the amplifier,but no CB unit.
Religion is poison with the linear amplifier of some substantial power like 100 wats.
@Rustyknifeit didn't. the earth is flat, bruh.
As a trucker I mainly use the cb when there's a back up. Otherwise I keep it turned off due to dead air or cursing.
You call that dead? That's busier than the repeaters in my area. I'm tempted to look into a CB for the car.
Same here ..l like ssb with 200 watt amp ...even more than using my general ham license sometimes lol
Do it let's talk
Ham for me is so active.
Just got my first cb and I learned real quick, it all depends on location. Driving in valleys and parked near powerlines is a recipe for static. Certain times of the day will also leave you sad, especially if you're a hobbyist and all the daytime chatter is dudes working. Weather is a big factor, as it is with most radio wave transmissions.