CB Radio & Accessories
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CB Radio & Accessories
So whats a good CB Radio to go with.... and whats the goodies to add to make it a more pleasurable experience??? Any info on this subject is helpful because I know NOTHING about em.... at all!!!
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Re: CB Radio & Accessories
Originally Posted by unkut2003
and whats the goodies to add to make it a more pleasurable experience???
I have a Cobra 29 and it does a great job. Bone-stock model that has at least an 8 mile range in good conditions. Get a noise cancelling mic(I forget the actual name of those mic's ops: ) with that you can ride down the road with the radio rocking and window's rolled down. When you talk on the CB everyone can still understand you plain as day, without one, we will only hear the background noise.
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Cobra 25 or 29 without the soundtracker feature or a Uniden 68 or 78 series radio. Add to it a Roadking or Astatic Noise Canceling Mic and a good antenna and you are all set once you make sure your SWR is good to go.
The only other toy I added was a mic keeper. Love that thing. Works so much nicer than bungee cords for the grab and release of the mic.
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Funny, I've never associated pleasurable and the CB together.
As previously stated, for the most part its a bunch of mouth breathers who like call other's racist names and threaten to beat you up if you cross them (although none of 'em has ever shown up to the challenge :lol: ) Keep it cheap, I have a radio shack CB that I bought at a pawn shop about 25 years ago, it still works fine, its bone stock no fancy echo mics and other assorted juvenile toys. I use it for shippers/receivers....thats about it. Mic keepers are good, but too pricey for me, I just use a mini-bungie cord.
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You can go to a CB shop at most any truckstop and they will tune it for you if your unsure what your doing. At the same time you can get them to turn the power up some but please, the rest of us don't need to hear you from 40 miles away because you got the power jacked way up.
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A Cobra 19 is a good basic radio you can probably buy for around $50. Some of these guys spend hundreds of dollars on radios with echo and/or excessive power and other accessories and you cannot understand what they are saying. As far as I am concerned they wasted several hundred dollars. I had a Cobra 19 for many years. I paid $35 for the radio and antenna and got many years of use out of it. OK, it has been quite a few years ago. I also have a Uniden 78 and an old Radio Shack radio. A Cobra 29 is a good radio, as is the Uniden 78. Both can be purchased for around $100. I would not spend a lot of money on a CB. There is just too much garbage on the radio these days. I would buy a good basic radio. That is all you really need. Most of us keep our radios turned down because of all the trash. I use mine to listen for road conditions and occasionally at receivers or shippers. Some times I will try to get directions to a facility, if it is one that I have never been to before. Of course, with so many drivers turning their radios down or off, it is sometimes difficult to find someone who can help. Even the cheap radios will reach out 2-5 miles. That is all you really need.
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I have a Galaxy 949 that was peaked and tuned. Other than that, I've done nothing special. In fact, I have the factory antenna's on it. The only reason I have the Galaxy is that my Uniden 68 fried on me after 6 years.
I took the Uniden to a CB shop. When he opened it, it was plain to see that it was fried beyond repair (no idea what actually caused it). When I started looking at new radio's I realized I could buy the used Galaxy for the same price as a new Cobra 29. If the Uniden hadn't fried, I'd still be using it. Especially since I only turn the thing on during bad weather or am coming into an area where I need it on for traffic reports. I don't care about bear reports as I can only run 67mph.
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