The Best CB and antennae combo that you can get over the counter?

True....
15 mi and more is possible and can be done without gobs of power..

 

Yeah so i hear as well....Im guessing it was cause the ant were attached to a small hunk of metal in behind the fibreglass of the roof....Never had one or even looked into it so i dont know forsure..Those mounts were nothing either,seen a few of them all broke up or hangin off a few cabs.

 

Ok, I'm just saying it is possible to get good performance from a stock factory antenna. But not for long! They have the therory right and can achieve acceptable performance, with a splitter no less. But don't expect it to last longer than a month. They cheaped out on the trivial things.. likely the pl-259 conector. The worst of the worst crimp-on style.

If you are in a brand new truck it will last long enough for you to get a feel for it if it's going to be your thing or not. A used truck? Don't bother, waste of time, .need to run your own coax.

 

Let me tell you the automatic squelch is a godsend. Like the ronco electric food dehydrator, set it and forget it.

 

With these new trks that statement describes the entire trk..lol

 

Just tured mine on to try it for the 1st time..East of toronto it gets quiet all the way to novascotia...

 

Now understand SUPER WEAK signals you will not hear but 99% of what you DO hear is a legit transmitted signal. If you need to hear the super weak signals keep turning the auto squelch know clockwise slowly and it will kick it out of auto sq and into manual with it set super low and you'll hear everything.

 

When you “think” it’s gone quiet is the point you’ll want the WEST MOUNTAIN RADIO CLEARSPEAKER.

I had skip from all over the country last night running eastern Oklahoma after re-installing it. Turned off Squelch and max’d RF Gain.

Voices on top of voices. Make a curve on the highway and some will fade out and others will fade in.

Might be faint, but it’s out there.

Backed things down to where its just the guys within 100-miles.

So, Craig, my little Uniden has a better receiver than a Fine Tune 955 Stryker, huh? (And it’s powered off factory binding posts).

Consider the other tools: CMC choke & filter, 12V filtering at both ends, etc. They make a difference. (But none of that is in place at present with the cubby setup I’m running. With my back-of-sleeper antenna).

The fuel card points UNIDEN scores!!

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And (whew, almost forgot) the factory coax is screwed up.

(So, what’ll it be like when I’ve got the big dog Galaxy back in here? All the other tools in place? Game, set, match, it’s looking).