Looking to get a GOOD CB setup

Clay is still across street from Petro, was just in there Friday...

 

Never heard of them

 

Wow what a bunch of crap info being thrown about.

OP find a good shop where they can properly realign the receive and tune the transmit, don't allow a wood butcher to get into it and clip parts, that is only for idiots and fools. A good tuned 29 with a proper alignment will be better than a lot of the crap on the market today,

 

Someone must be a ham operator with that condescending tone.

 

I see this all the time. Clip this, and peak that, make the radio a garbage box.

Too bad people don't listen to those who know.

 

That's a radio which is illegal to use by anyone without a Ham radio license. Well, it's illegal to use on 10 meters. Be careful with this.

For anyone who is interested, a beginner ham radio license is very easy to obtain and opens up huge spectrums of radio for use. You can easily communicate hundreds of miles with ham radio on 2 meter, with repeaters on towers all over the nation.

If anyone is interested in obtaining a license please feel free to send me a PM and I'd be happy to help. Once you key a mic and get a response from someone 50 miles away like they are in your back yard, you can get addicted very quickly. You can also have a family member obtain one and use it instead of cell phones. They are legal to use in all 50 states, even where cell phones are illegal to use in cars.

 

Just for future reference, any radio you see with a "meter" designation, like 2 meter radio, 10 meter, 20 meter, even 70cm, that's all Ham radio frequencies thus require a license to operate on. If you're wondering what the hell this meter designation is, its the approximate length of one wavelength at that frequency. For CB, the 28.XXXmhz that CB uses is about 11 meters from peak to peak, or trough to trough, for the radio waves at that frequency. The higher the meter designation, the lower the frequency. Ham radio goes as low as 160 meters, which is 3.5mhz. That's an antenna the size of your back yard. Since the lower the frequency, the larger the antenna, you can look at an antenna on a car and get an idea of what frequency it is used for. The little stubby ones you see on cop cars that are like 3 inches long are 900mhz ones used for their laptops and sometimes for the comm radios. Larger antennas are used for comm on lower frequencies and also for CB and Ham use. When you see massive antennas on vehicles thats usually all Ham radios, usually down to about 10 meters. Anything lower and the antenna is so big its hard to make a good one that's mobile. The ones for our cell phones have to be very tiny, thus cell phones actually communicate very high, in the 2.4ghz range. The antennas are about an inch long, if that.

It's really funny to see CB antennas in truck stops when some of them say GOOD FOR UP TO 15000 WATTS!! And for CB, the max legal output is 4 watts. Even with a Ham radio license, 10 meters would be up to 1500 watts, max. NOBODY can legally communicate over that as an individual. You can only go over that as a radio station like for a car.

CB used to be the old Ham 11 meter band. However, its not referred to as that anymore. But since 10 meters is Ham radio and 11 meters is CB, you will sometimes see some CB antennas advertised as CB and 10 meter antennas. The 10 meter and 11 meter bands are very close, thus can sometimes use the same antennas.

And unlike CB, the FCC actively monitors Ham radio use, and also Ham operators do as well. Some are experts and have equipment to find illegal operators. They can and will report you and the FCC WILL come after you.

So just take the simple little test and become a legal Ham radio operator. And you'll quickly see how bad CB really is.

 

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Brandon, thanks for the info but unfortunately you’re preaching to the wind. a lot of these guys on this forum already know this and understand it. But this is a CB forum and that’s what they mainly interested in. I’ve made a lot of good friends over the years in the CB clubs and a ham clubs. The main interest that both groups have is their love for radio. Unfortunately not everybody is going to obey the rules, and it doesn’t seem to matter which club they are in.