Do You Need A CB?

I just came here to show you guys that you don't need to spend hundreds of dollars on 10 meter export radios to talk 45 miles...

4 watts and a decent antenna system is all it takes..

 

and the area your in there's nothing special about a 4ft.firestik.or a 4 watt cobra 29 that setup will not do that kind of receive or transmit where I'm at now...which is i80 westbound in il.60 miles from the Iowa line heading to cali

 

Kind of helps when he's pushing a hundred Watts to get into my noisy low gain receiver and it kind of helps when his low noise high gain receiver is on the other end to pick up my weak 4 Watt signal. Otherwise it never would have happened.

 

Perhaps you could make us a recording to show us how easy it is to do this on a daily basis with complete strangers in random locations...

 

A few months ago I was northbound on the 410 loop in San Antonio, OKC bound.

"Northbound, you've got about a 5 mile backup just about 2 miles ahead of ya."

"Thank ya hand. I ain't seen nuthin' to bother ya back to Pleasanton."

I jump off on I10, east to 1604, then north thru Universal City and hit I35. Missed the whole darn thing.

Last month I'm eastbound on I40 in OKC, headed to the stockyards. About 4 miles before my exit.

"Back it down eastbound! You've got a wreck ahead. Just happened. Looks like all lanes blocked. Cars everywhere."

I jump off on MacArther, east on 15th to Agnew. Scaled in, loaded, scaled out and boogied out of town. Traffic STILL tied up over on the eastbound side.

Folks can say it doesn't help all they want, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. If ya don't want to listen to it, then by all means, don't. No one is telling you that you have to. But I've been helped by other good folks over the CB too many times to not run with one.

 

well according to you it has to be a mark Sherman to mark Sherman radio. well it's not like it used to be for that to happen anymore.. like I know it used to happen back in the day. I've been out here doing this for a minute... $50 shipping and $50 shipping back to you plus his $175 radio work comes to $275 if I can still add correctly. you could buy 2 cobra 29's for that and a really good antenna. or a radio like a galaxy 47 hp. I m too busy working out here or could really care less about recording radio distances out here. but you do what you do I see nothing wrong with that...I'm too busy to watch that stuff but I'm sure or I guess others do watch those videos

 

kind of simple to me you don't run a radio especially in the winter your pretty much a idiot------things can happen very very quickly out here. there's such a thing as a driver going way too fast or way too slow.... either one can get you-me or someone else killed. i kinda like knowing just where those drivers are others drivers will often enough tell you where there at... weather their running eastbond-westbound whatever the case may be.

 

Sadly I knew one gentleman that died in that wreck....his tractor is pulling the black van in the photo. He drove for TranService out of their TN yard.

 

sorry to hear that. proves how dangerous and serious doing this job actually is !!!