What is the best cd radio to buy

One that WONT BE STOLEN! Seriously I have a Cobra portable (same one in the truck stops)...only this one was Mint condition for $20 at the local Flea Market.Has battery or plug it into the cig lighter.Take it with me into the hotel(so the homeless guy doesnt use his slim jim in his backpack at 12pm and steal it.JMO

 

I have a Connex 3300 HP-Zx I bought from a guy like 15 or 20 years ago for $40 bucks...it's beat up and been dropped a few times switching trucks and it still works "top shelf" I've been told

 

i too wish i had kept ALL my old cb radios. even the ones that stopped working, just for posterity reasons.

for my kids to have seen, compared to todays garbage

 

A Viking is a big old tube transmitter. Just wondering where it was sitting? On the dash. Lol

To the op, if you want a good radio, any cobra is good start. A 23 channel is as good as a 49 channel.

Get it aligned and properly tuned, don't have it peaked and tuned by some yahoo idiot - most "techs" are idiots.

Speaking of Johnson. They made one of the best radios, very well enginnered, top quality parts and still beats the crap out of the radios out there, and especially the 10 meter crap that is being sold as top end radios. It was a Johnson 323. A 123a as mentioned in this thread (actually an image of it), is a good radio too. The problem with both of these radios is that they were hard to along and messed with by idiot techs who tried to make them into loud radios.

 

This is precisely why my father always took a backup radio. There was only 2 or 3 truckstop techs he trusted. I am not 100% sure but I believe one was working at the El Paso Petro.

 

i did indeed look up the johnson cb line. i did see where the viking was indeed a base station or yes, tubes. so i remember there was a viking guy on the face of the cb, and it was greens. kinda big like a 29 classic.

so maybe remembering the viking emblem, i thought it was a viking..???

i see where they had "messenger" line, so maybe in the end, that;s what it was..???

i tried ebay and can't find what i had, i tried other google searches, nada....

 

If all you’re wanting to do is get bear reports and such from those of us out here that still speak English and run a radio, then.....

Cobra or Uniden as was already posted..
Make sure your coax and antenna (s) are in good shape...Your setup is only as good as its weakest component.

 

OK













Any one of those?

 

I wish I had dad's old 23 ch Pierce Simpson....

 

I am not going to state it in the open because I don't want to start a flame war. However there is a real reason these old radio's are not around much anymore.