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[@shawno66]

Ah man when I was a kid I loved my CB. My dad put a huge tower next to our house so I could use it. I had CB friends and we played CB games and even got together for potlucks. This was the late 70's and early 80's. Thanks for the nostalgia!

[@DellFargus]

10m-20m has been wild lately, including ssb CB. The clarifier on there radios just dials the frequency up or down a kHz.

[@homersaypian3798]

I made a contest contact from here in Texas to Romania on 20m last night. 5990 miles seems open to me. Go to 27.385 and it’s nothing but QRN.

[@tomhendricksen1805]

@@homersaypian3798 sometimes a simple antenna will do wonders. I once put up a 15 meter dipole from the corner of the house to a cyclone fence. Not high at all, but I must have run a wire to the Russia/China border, which is just about all I could reach with it.

[@tomhendricksen1805]

In the early 70's, at the peak of CB radio, I sold, installed, and repaired CB radio's. I had SSB radios brought to me for tuning after hearing another one I had tuned, and one radio held from Virginia to Oregon because nobody else was allowed to touch his radio. Truckers for the most part were active and polite. In the 80's I put a Motorola radio (my favorite) in my car and the truckers were plentiful, but vulger and I took the radio out. Recently I installed another radio in my car for use on the hiway and the truckers, while there, are very silent unless there is something they need to know. I find it interesting how things change over time.

[@jas8256]

You have GPS now that we did not have back in the 70’s, You can get GPS that tells you where the Police/Radar are setting up, You have Cameras that are forward and rearward facing … There are several that make KZbin Videos with the cameras … Everyone has a Cell Phone … with all the scammers and such I am not convinced a CB is a good Idea … I took Mine out … Want to know about Road Closures and Traffic in front or behind you … Google Maps shows all that …

[@auteurfiddler8706]

@@jas8256 How does that work? At one point, I uploaded red light cams to a Garmin Nuvi, but it required people to upload the locations to an enthusiast site. The experts then converted that to points of interest. Then you downloaded and installed. It means stuff was maybe weeks behind being current.

[@Thane36425]

In the 70s they sold emergency CB radios to carry in your car. The one we had was kind of like a walkie talkie that plugged into the cigarette lighter for power. A few times we did use it to ask for traffic conditions if we were on interstates and headed for known bad traffic areas. One time we were south of Richmond headed north and eventually got traffic reports relayed from around Fredericksburg, this being on I-95. By the late 80s or so when I was driving I never used it because truckers had gotten rude like the OP said. Long since lost that thing.

[@Samuel-I]

I’ve analyzed WHY drivers don’t use the cb like we used to. There are a few logical reasons. 1) GPS , like the fellow above mentioned 2) Satellite radio gives drivers umpteen listening options 3) cell phones.. people can’t function anymore without them 4). TEAM DRIVING. That’s the big one. Team driving has exponentially increased, and along with the other reasons above , they keep the cab silent so the sleeping driver can rest.

[@jamowrer]

Could you do some repair videos?

[@CWR66]

Me and all my buddies in high school had CB radios in our trucks back in the 1980's those were good times.

[@davelynch3064]

...Candy cane?...Candy cane?...it's me, Rusty Nail...

[@ludicrous7044]

My CB handle was Soggy Biscuit. I got it from a trucker at 4:00 AM trying to get home for the Holidays. He was talking to another one who told him to drive careful and get some sleep. He said he would and said he was so tired he felt like a soggy biscuit!! 🤦

[@entenmanny3061]

CB Radios are making a comeback!!!!! Typewriters are making a comeback!!! Flip Phones are making a comeback !!!! Sewing Machines and learning how to splice and braid rope and tailor clothes are making a comeback!! How our grandparents gotten through the 1920 - 30's Economic Depression, their grandkids want to learn from them, because those who knows those skills will survive 😉. What's Old Is New Now !!!

[@dingleberryxo7623]

oregon trail. horse drawn buggies. steam ships crosssing the ocean. meazles,tb. Mozes crossing the red sea. Beatles getting back together.

[@80Dantheman]

One day cell phones will be out and cb radio will be used.

[@joshuapierce8891]

I'm thinking the same way

[@Dawg7227]

Ahh, I have 3 CBs and I never use them. Probably been 10 years since I hooked them up. Not really interested in talking to truckers. They’re just not very interesting. If my phone went down I’d see it as a blessing and just enjoy the silence.

[@80Dantheman]

@randyj8834 You never know but silence is nice too.

[@jdailey19811]

Ham radio will be used even more.

[@fargoalspach557]

Please be tomorrow.

[@DavidVanHelden1]

I turned mine on in California and found out nobody speaks English anymore ....

[@RJ1999x]

Si

[@jdock32778]

"Que Mala" ... sound familiar?

[@TigerHighaf]

No hablo inglés

[@1946luke]

Thank dementia joe & the dumbocrats for that.

[@plateshutoverlock]

When a major disaster hits and takes out the cell towers, the ham radio operators come on the scene.

[@tomhendricksen1805]

Been there, done that, but there were no cell phone towers to loose. 3 days working communications for the Red Cross.

[@johney4484]

You’re picking up what’s called Skip. Very common. I love CB radios back in the 70s. They were the best way to communicate.

[@HamRadioConcepts]

Yes I know I have been doing this since I was 9 and I have Been a ham operator since 2002

[@davidleatherneck]

@@HamRadioConcepts ,,,, Is a license required for 2 meter?

[@ClarkeMarek]

​@@davidleatherneck Yes

[@tomhendricksen1805]

@@davidleatherneck you do need a license, but it is not difficult to study for and pass the test. Higher licenses take a little more effort, but once hooked you will keep going. I have been licensed since March, 1962 and still enjoy the hobby.

[@1946luke]

Retired over the road trucker, got my first CB back in 71 or 72. It was a Pace 123, 23 channel. Going on 79 yrs old now, and I've still got a CB in my pickup truck. They will install a CB in my casket, when I'm dead. Pizz on the FCC and the DOT.

[@TomGorman-x8q]

CB Radio is like old fashioned party line telephone

[@mykehunt2430]

I bet most don’t know what that is. I remember my grandparents having that in the 70’s

[@johnnorman7708]

I remember us being on a party line telephone when CB was really taking off in the early 1970s. I was just a kid then. Tried to no avail to get my Dad to buy us a CB radio. He never did. I still don't quite understand why he didn't. I was crazy about radio in those days. Still like it but only fire up a radio every now and then when the radio bug bites me. I really need to invest in some base station gear and an amp to do a little DX work. Long distance always fascinated me. The ability to pick up a mic and talk to a random person on radio several hundred miles away is still like magic.

[@mcemtpockets1775]

We will need them when war breaks out in the U.S.

[@ernest9606]

Back in the 80s the cb was a very popular thing. All my friends had one in their car or truck. It was a lot of fun. As an adult and a prepper im seriously thinking about getting back into it 😊

[@alkempton1512]

Definitely, the prices are close to what thay were back then,I picked up a bear cat

[@originalsusser]

The early 80s

[@paulvelasquez6943]

Well, that's 2.5 minutes I will never get back...

[@HamRadioConcepts]

Cool, and I just wasted 0.7 seconds reading this useless comment... NEVER EVER WATCH MY VIDEOS AGAIN... IS THAT TOO SIMPLE TO COMPREHEND?

[@paradisebreeze1705]

Was boring

[@Alabaster335]

The best noise reduction on CB radio here in Australia is turning the Volume switch to the Off position.

[@Bay0Wulf]

I still run my CB (Tweaked Connex) in my rig (semi) and consider it an important tool. There’s A LOT of trash talk and Chatty Cathys but its kept me out of a lot of problems on the road.

[@hughjazz9875]

Love those connexs

[@shanehumberstone5262]

I wish cb was still busy like it was years ago in the uk,hardly anyone uses it now here

[@BlueOx2277]

Breaker 1-9 this here’s the Rubber Duck

[@cal30m1]

The last time I used a CB they only had 23 channels.

[@WilliamRichards-ut1hk]

Remember the 6 channel ones?

[@edwardambrose8704]

Got a Pearce Simpson 23 channel Cheetah with Upper and Lower SB. 5/8 wave on the roof , got out like a champ ! Roger That ?

[@edwardambrose8704]

@@WilliamRichards-ut1hk Yes I Do ! Needed TX. and RC . Crystals for other channels ! Inserted in the face plate . Lafayette model !

[@AEZAEZEL-187]

CB Radio is anything but dead! Me myself have about 4 CB Radios and 2 fiber glass antennas and I love CB Radios!!

[@denelson83]

Well, try telling that to Ben K2LAK up in SD. He has a CB radio and could not hear any activity on it.

[@kealiimaxilom2465]

Don't be quick to disregard that tech..if hostile occupation happens we will need those.

[@kurtwise7356]

In the 70s I had a base station in Saginaw Michigan with Willson 500 dual beam antennas! On a good night I could talk skip to South America!

[@GrdDog]

All depends on the region; there are areas where a c.b. radio is still heavily used (rural areas) and then there are those areas where it is not (city areas), I can say as an OTR trucker for the last 30 years there is a decline in the use of c.b.'s on the road and this has led to major issue, like major traffic accidents. Myself and many old timers in trucking still run c.b. and I will always have one up and running.

[@nobodysbusiness566]

Hi from Australia guys, CB and Ham/amateur radio are alive and well here, I'm a little north of Sydney near a city named Newcastle and the locals here are always chasing skip and we constantly hear and talk to the U.S from here, especially Flordia and Hawaii. I'm always listening on 38 aor 35 LSB, CB is rapidly becoming as it was in the 1980's when there was lots of propogation and world wide commuications was possible, we are currently climbing to the peak of the cyle again.

[@SuperBC10]

I remember waking up early on a Saturday morning to get on the rig first. “Breaker 1-4 for a copy. Yeah you got a copy, take it up two good buddy. What’s your 20?” And in the car “Eyeball eyeball”. Only those that know will understand.

[@briandibben9140]

Breaker 1-9, Breaker 1-9. You got a copy Rubber Ducky! 10-4. Oooga Booga Good Buddy!

[@dizzysdoings]

Had a CB radio back in the day.

[@raysoucie489]

KOOL Information --- I worked at K-40 Electronics and I was one of their Engineers

[@malibuconv1968]

Lower and Upper Side Band are where all the action is. It's been that way since the 70s.

[@kaykool9589]

THE LOSS OF THE CB IS WHY THERE ARE SO MANY MAJOR PILE UPS IN SNOW STORMS BECAUSE TRUCKERS DONT TALK TO EACH OTHER ANYMORE! PLEASE LORD BRING BACK THE 70'S!!!!!

[@1946luke]

Nah, they do talk. Getting others to listen is the problem sometimes. Having the CB turned off or way down while blasting music, is counter productive.

[@mikefriedman593]

Don't these units have a squelch button to filter out the unwanted skip?

[@KevinsCampingAdventure]

That's not just a CB. It's a side banded radio. That's how he's able to get all of those and depending on the time of day, he's getting skip traffic. ✌️

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

Breaker 19! This is the rubber duck! You got Your ears on?

[@mikejordan8259]

10-4 Rubber Duck, this is Mr. Moose II here what's your twenty?

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

@@mikejordan8259 Just right out of Tupelo! I copy good buddy, Just spotted some Smokies so keep Your ears on! Got to get to Texarkana cause there's Beer there!

[@TheHiredGun187]

Channel 19 is the place to be on a CB

[@countryjoe3551]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@charlesdudemandude3554]

What's channel 19

[@SuperBC10]

Or 14 here in the UK.

[@charlesdudemandude3554]

What is it

[@JeffTullock-yx1hd]

Need a cb to build a convoy.

[@DougPoulton]

A lot of those long distance talkers are just beating their gums on a 300 watt linear and everybody in 4 states can hear them but they can't hear you on your 8 watt LSB radio.

[@richarddutchholland4780]

I’m 54 this year and in the 80s I had a York JCB 863 CB ……… They were the best times in the UK to be on the air, I was also a member of a club (this may sound crazy today) called D.A.R.T (Distress, aid and rescue teams) that monitored the air waves 24/7 for people in need of assistance

[@Steven-re7xt]

During the recent black out some major carriers went off line a strange thing happened with the old timers and truckers***and cb ops started to carry *health and welfare traffic. Ie messages were given to truckers then travel to local city's***drop off messages. **Then move on . Though it didn't last long it's there cb for ever😊😊😊

[@markpritchard]

I had a lorry with a CB radio in the UK. All i could here was radio enthusast talking about there radios and equipment or people having arguments. I also picked up a shunter driver calling me lots of names to the other shuntter drivers over his little 5 channel radio. I stopped switching it on after a few days.

[@mpybals8002]

Back in the late 80s these were my cell phone. I was the Dirt Jeep and my friend was Buck Skin Baby.

[@MausMasher54]

It's called Atmospherics....And Solar Flares cause it and was once upon a time called "Skip", is more prevalent during the Solar Max Uptick....IMHO

[@xerxese7909]

I enjoyed your comment! They don't know.

[@cindys1819]

Well, if you want to get into CB radio make sure you get an older TUBE CB and put it back in 100% working order. Then put it in a deep dry shielded box. Cause one Chinese ENP weapon and all your bright shiny microprocessor controlled toys are going to be boat anchors.....

[@rcas350pilot8]

Cause one Chinese ENP weapon and all your bright shiny microprocessor controlled toys are going to be boat anchors And one H bomb from the US and a good part of China is reduced to a big pile of radioactive rubble.

[@DerekOwenLangdon]

And china will say, thankyou for the H bomb. Now try one of ours!@@rcas350pilot8

[@tomhendricksen1805]

The same goes for your car. One good EMP and your car will stop running where it sits. An old car with breaker points will not even notice what happened.

[@georgehays4900]

Last time I tried my CB, everyone on it was speaking Spanish, no etiquette whatsoever.

[@kurttuttle1817]

How is it on FM? If I bought another CB, that is one of the main reasons I would get one.

[@rwl8150]

I have found a couple brand new in the box Cobras @ Goodwill for$15. They are great in a jeep with a firestick type antenna.

[@cpoky]

Im 51, grew up in the CB 70s. When I got one for my van in 2004, being from that era, 2 things that shocked me right off the bat. The amount of Women truck drivers today AND unfortunately the Cursing. I dont mean to sound like a snowflake child but MAN back in the 70s they were ON YOU if you said even shit or damn. Was not ready for the Freedom Of Speech of 2004 CB users lol

[@alcad3209]

Someone should create a CB club across North America.

[@Ben-rj7xs]

CB radio isn't dead it's more less there is no skip coming in and most people love talking across the ocean. I think CB is alive and doing ok

[@bodeine454]

Might think about getting a better, external mic because the one on the phone just doesn't convey the sound details to us the way it does for you when you're recording. Much of it sounds like popcorn popping inside of a soup can. I always ran a good external speaker with my C.B.'s, they sound so much better than the tin can sounding speaker inside of it.

[@oldgrayhairs8246]

I use an External speaker too.👍🏼

[@GONAVYCHIEF]

I'm on my CB's, 2Meter, 70cm, 20m and 40m Daily. There are thousands of people with their ears on. Welcome back.

[@tracykennedy7678]

10m has been open to Europe and South America all day

[@stevenjordan6389]

What was this video about?

[@voltijuice8576]

About two and a half minutes long.

[@SuperBC10]

I had a Colt 1600. My brother had a President Grant. Started off with a Cobra straight 40. It’s all coming back now.

[@nicholsonjay4724]

My wife and I got walk-in talkies the other day for travelling.

[@Taco274x4]

If you and your wife got one of those "blister pack" radios that boast of having upto 36mi range or similar, that range statement is, well, definitely not going to be very realistic. In either case, you likely bought those "GMRS" radio (i.e. walkie-talkie) that have like 22ch if I remember right? Anyways, those radios are GMRS, which, technically, you need to acquire a license to use them on the GMRS channels let alone whatever "GMRS repeater tower" you plan on going through. However, you can use, for example, ch8-ch14, which are called FRS channels andvrequire NO license to transmit on. Your transmit output wattage is dramatically reduced internally to the radio down to like 0.5W Whatever the case, they are still good radios to use when 2x cars are being used and very easy to use. Finally, very unlikely the FCC will go after you for not having a GMRS license... BUT... just be aware that it is a possibility and a fine will be issued as well as possible jail time.

[@kenreice7774]

whatever you do, do not use channel 19 in Lewiston Idaho. 19 is for locals (they actually talk about guppies) and they will make that very clear. The driver channel there is 15.

[@jimburdin]

maybe they should learn that 19 is the Trucker's channel...

[@kenreice7774]

unless you'd like to talk about guppies you'll have no one to talk to, lol

[@auteurfiddler8706]

Guppies the aquarium tropical fish? Or is that a new hip term meaning gay yuppies or something?

[@kenreice7774]

it's true, locals talk about the colors of their fish, guppies

[@TM-gv6zv]

You know I'm a licensed ham operator myself and you're exactly right. When the band is open there's more activity on 11 mm in 10 m. So those who say CB radio is dead well they might want to turn one on and find out

[@aaronkuntze7494]

Sales of C.B.'s is up 30% each year for the last 8-10 years. Someone is buying them..

[@gene2200]

Had to have an SWR meter to adjust it right, early 80s I put them in a long with alarms and stereos.

[@WayneSnow-nu6ww]

I still have my cobra 29 cb in storage somewhere, I used to get England once in a while in the evening, then I got my cell phone in the 90s and put up the cb, I think I'll find it and hook it up, I'll need a good antenna and see if I can get someone to look at it,

[@captainsuperman4925]

We all need to get these now we are going to need them I am going to dig mine out

[@SuperBC10]

Fantastic. There’s plenty of breakers still on the air near me but they don’t know the lingo anymore. 😢

[@magnoliav12]

I'm an old ham, I bought a couple of CB radios for nostalgic purposes, but I haven't been using them. I still keep renewing my old call . I hold a commercial radio license as well, guess I got burned out on radio since I've been in it all of my life. I checked out the CB radios and was amazed at how few are on it these days. They all went to the internet.

[@lilblackduc7312]

Cell phones have taken a lot of a driver's time away from the airwaves.

[@paulne1514]

Here in the Northeast, we have preaching, foreign languages, people running a lot of power(with bleed over), cursing, base stations running power and bullshitting all day on channel 19 and those ANNOYING beeps every time people release the mic button. Drivers up here have enough to put up with, and turn off the CB so they don’t have to deal with that crap.

[@brianwilson6403]

I would love to get another CB, but in newer vehicles, there's no place to mount them. Fireman Freddy KATR 3523

[@HarleyRider503]

A later glorified 1980s SuperStar with no freq counter. I went Galaxy 88 to solve that problem. Then just went straight ham like my father who was MARS in the 70s during NAM.

[@Bullworm562]

I bet most of the stations heard are running illegal amplifiers.

[@bluecollarwatches7048]

I still use a cb on long road trips especially when we’re pulling our trailer.

[@orvillelewis4000]

Cb radio is not dead

[@garysmith6857]

The old CB didn't cost a dime to use. Much cheaper than a cell phone!!! 😊 GO breaker come on 😊

[@Ron-zi3cg]

This is true

[@MrSGL21]

cb is super use full on the highways. last two road trips i ran an old rat shack and k30. 1st trip i hit a highway stoppage, fired up the radio and got a response from a trucker about a lane closure up ahead, 2nd trip, was just listening and found out the exit i was about to get off on ahead had a traffic jam.

[@whoaedgy7345]

Band is alive almost every day, just wish you tube communications community would pick a nationwide FM channel. 73's

[@martinburns7928]

I don't care what anybody says, I don't know enough to understand what I was just watching

[@otero2235]

Still have cb in my camper on all my atvs. Their cheap reliable for out on the ranch.

[@richarddodds9326]

I got Radio Shack 9 ft. SS whip and Cobra NW Sound Tracker WC and 400 BI linear and talked all over, Santa Domingo etc..

[@musoseven8218]

Reminds me of my old Cobra to look at✌️👍😊💜

[@davidleatherneck]

Ya, me too. The 29. with several funny channels added. It's in the garage boxed up. Thinking about installing it in my pick-up truck. Retired trucker here.

[@musoseven8218]

@@davidleatherneck You lucky guy! I had a Cobra 148GTLDX and a Rotel (FM), both good radios. I miss the CB, maybe time to return (I'm in the UK), if I can get my voice to work again. The Cobra was highly illegal here - so we had dummy FM set ups to hide such kit✌️👍😊💜😉😉

[@Adamdaj]

I wonder if people are taking advantage of FM on CB, now that it's legal? Of course, AM waves seems to travel further at low power, but FM sounds crystal clear compared to AM.

[@W4MBU]

Actually a.m. which is amplitude modulation at the right bandwidth will actually sound better than FM which is frequency modulation and both on the same frequency will travel at the same distance. People have a misconception about AM FM and single sideband it's all about bandwidth being transmitted

[@S4inc]

CB is not dead..Maybe, MAYBE not as popular as it was in the 1970s and early 1980s..But still putting it out

[@brybish]

Had cb in the early 80's radio will never die .

[@Joseph-u3t2n]

I grew up in the 70s and early 80s and all my uncles and aunts had cb's in their homes and vehicles. I still have a cb in my vehicle and with the technology of small compact lite weight batteries now days I can remove my cb and tuck it in my bug out bag with my collapsible antenna and still be able to communicate should the power grid go down. Im currently studying for a ham radio license because you can run them off 12 volt DC and they reach out farther (a lot farther)

[@MHLivestreams]

I found licencing as a radio dealer easier to obtain, you can also license other people temporarily! That's how it is here in Britain anyway.

[@Lucysdad66]

Your catching skip I use to talk skip all the time back in the 90's I use to run 2k in my truck and I had a tuber in the house it was one tube driving 3 tubes driving 10 tubes it would swing 3k I lived in so cal at the time sometimes I could walk on the locals in Australia I got 2 raidos left a cobra 2000 with a few hundred channels and a slider and I got a 148 with a messenger in my 84 cj. But haven't used them in probably 20 to 25 years.

[@ColinJJStevens]

You should get into Short Wave, much more creepy and weird things there.

[@mikejordan8259]

Numbers Station stuff.

[@tomaroni6670]

Channel 19 in the old days was the standard use channel across the nation...

[@countryjoe3551]

Now it's just a open sewer.

[@chicagotom1643]

I still use mine. A lot of places still require you to have one

[@bruceshodgepodge]

When I lived in Northern Ontario Canada I had a Navaho single side band base CB with a basic car antenna outside my window of my house and picked up a guy from San Francisco on skip and we started talking to each other. we started talking about the World Series since it was being played that day in San Fran. a little while later things got a little quiet on his end but he came back with a" I don't know how much longer I can talk with you we just had an earthquake and I think my building is on fire!" I told him to sign off and find a safe place which he did. I signed off and went in to the family room where my family was getting ready to watch the World Series when I said that there won't be a game in San Fran that night because they just had a big earthquake. None of my family believed me until the TV went off the air and all you could hear was the audio from the announcers at the game said " Folks, we just had an earthquake rock San Francisco and everyone is evacuating the stadium!". My family looked at me and asked how I knew that happened and I told them about the person I was talking to and that was when we all realized that radio waves travelled faster than the TV satellite feed."

[@jchis9852]

I'm a trucker and there isn't even 25% of truck drivers out here today that use a CB radio.

[@VickieSmith-r1x]

That's how you get in Trouble you need to Know what's Ahead of You so you can make a decision.

[@jchis9852]

@@VickieSmith-r1x You know that and I know that, but the newbs don't know that and if they do, they just don't care.

[@VickieSmith-r1x]

I had a C.B. years ago and a C.B. Shop at I 12 and I 55 in Hammond LA. AKA. REGULATOR 272 IN THE Bayou .😎

[@jimfinigan1681]

When I was driving 20 years ago, CB air was full of garbage. People acting the fool, playing around, insulting each other, etc. I quit depending on the CB because I couldn't get anything useful from it.

[@magnificenthonky]

We're lucky if 25% of the drivers are even American, anymore. Personally, I find running without a radio to be irresponsible.

[@jasonveldhuis9471]

Boy, you gotta lot to learn about the citizens band radio. Number one, shut up and listen.

[@HamRadioConcepts]

Been on CB for 32 years

[@ZippyThePinhead]

We had a 19 channel CB in out car the late 70's, used it to get the smokey reports on the highway as we were traveling. Channel 19 was the one to tune into back then. Haven't used one since, don't even know if they're even a reliable source of info while traveling anymore.

[@_DB.COOPER]

I put CB Radios in two of my trucks that we take hunting fishing and camping, mostly for the weather band.

[@maxrockatanksyOG]

Have just bought a Cobra 29 LTD Classic on Black Friday sales; has just landed here in Australia, so next few days should have it. Will be mounting it in the shed, will be doing a long antenna for skip/ distance, and a shorter stick for local- 15km out. I have a free Goal Zero solar panel, just need to grab a battery & some other bits. I think the way things are going (here in Australia & the world), CB will invaluable going forward

[@dieterhauer8619]

That should be good for primarily local communications via AM. However, if you're serious about long distance communications, you should consider getting a radio that has SSB (Single Sideband) capability.

[@2148aa]

If you are not talking on sub channels. You are not talking. 26.805 MHZ FM has been fun.

[@deborahchesser7375]

I keep my CB’s and walkies ready to go.

[@mattb3283]

Back in the day when I had my one stack mack with the window in the back..strolling down the big boulevard out of Hackensack..I'd drop it in the big hole and gouge on it..wrap my toenails over the radiator..COME ON!!

[@ralphnewcomejr]

Wait till everyone loses their cell service & wi-fi...it'll be much smoother...

[@2fathomsdeeper]

Still have a Navajo base with upper and lower sideband. And also a 100W linear for when the miscreants show up.

[@greylensman2834]

For those days you want to make the toaster talk.

[@2fathomsdeeper]

@@greylensman2834 Have talked 5 miles off a 500W light bulb used for theatrical scoops used as a dummy load without the linear. Had 1:1 SWR on it.

[@forest0734]

I found it helpful if there was a highway problem like a blockage somewhere and you could pick another route or in need of some local information.

[@HansZarkovPhD]

Your cell phone does that.

[@tomhendricksen1805]

@@HansZarkovPhD Nooooo. I once got caught in a major rain storm near Sacremento, CA. We had to stop the motorhome because I-5 was closed. My coworker went to bed, but I played with the CB and found the truckers were going on a bypass road. After looking at the map I fired up the engine and we went home. A cell phone won't do that.

[@VE3RKP]

10m propagation is open too. If you don't hear anyone, call CQ and put out your call. Don't just spin across the dial and assume the bands are dead. 73 and good DX

[@HamRadioConcepts]

I've been calling CQ on my Icom 7100 every day all day (with the voice recorder on my SD card) in my work truck, and nobody ever responds.. I push the button one time on 27.385, I get England.... go figure

[@sondrayork6317]

Oh hell no, in fact, I think it’s making a comeback. I had considered getting back into cb radio because it seems to be coming back to life.

[@pvb9964]

will be essential when EMP takes down internet and phone service

[@patricktheplumber5482]

Bunch of retired truckers rocking the CB all day lol what I’m imagining

[@faithfamilyfriendsforever6777]

Give it another major cell phone rash and cbs and hams will be flying off the selfs

[@MelodyMan69]

When you learn how to use a CB Radio, then let us know what you learned. This is crap.

[@223dmr7]

Put it on channel 19. And by the way, my Connex 3300 still works Talk on it everyday

[@chasingsunset9801]

Back in 93 i used to have CB...i talk to operators from taiwan,china,japan,saipan and guam...thats how powerful this radio since then

[@OGxBUCCWEET]

back in 93? why did u stop