I have a question that maybe some of you can help with. I got a cb radio a few months back. Nothing fancy. Just a cheap Midland 40 channel. One of the small, little $30 radios that Pilot and some others sell. Don't razz me for it, it's all I could afford at the time. It seems to work ok, but sometimes I'm not sure. I was sitting at a shipper once, They have a staging area where you sit and monitor your radio. When they have a door for you, they will call you on the radio. I'm sitting there patiently waiting when the guard knocks on my door and tells me they have a door ready for me and they have been trying to call me on the radio. I didn't hear a thing. I did hear them later when they said my trailer was empty. I'm also constantly listening to one sided conversations. I can hear one driver talking, but not the one he is talking to.
My questions are, is this normal? Or do I just have a piece of junk radio? If I broke down and bought a $100 Cobra classic radio, would I still have the same problems? Help?
Is my CB junk?
Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by dodgeram440rt, Sep 30, 2010.
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Lot's time is the mic fault and not the radio, you can hear but wont repond back, try a truckstop , ya i know , just say is there a girl out here who wants to clean my truck
, if your radio works you get a thousand responces at once , if not , then you know its not working , any cb shop can test it too, i had a my dad midland R-456 model great little radio, put duel wilson ants on it , had it peek en tune up , all i need'ed for shippers, the ones thats gets me are the big radio guys think they spend 3 grand , too talk three miles with all there boom kickers en stuff, i hafta ask why, i almost lost a lady one night , becuse this idiot wouldnt get off his big radio, and lucky for me a pareamidic , going by,caught the in betweens on his radio, but myself i wish they bring back the fcc and regulate radios again, i still have my dads fcc call letters, that were too suppse too go on side of car, but sorry got off subject, this a sore subject for me , cause when i need info, there some jerk out there, playing with his roger beep 
, but i just invest in a mic , Everett.
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As i went down too the road , i stopped at rosemount, truckstop , i had my digtal camera, soney model ,this guy was selling his cobra 29 nighthawk, so i met him in the coffe shop, super nice guy, he wanted and was looking for a camera, and since this was just my backup anyway, a deal was made , it worked well for me in the last 4 years on the road and they hold there resale vaule very good too, i still sold it for $89, cause i had the box and still like new,but beware the older 29 were a better deal if you can find them, the newer ones are not, this was a truckdriver told me at the j as i was looking at that roadking for a $1000.98, could no see sence a buying a radio like that i told myself, i rather buy food and stuff i need that i need for truck., but any radio you get, it does wonders for a peek and tune.Everett.
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