Two thumbs up to everyone, it's really great to see so many folks running and/or interestd in CB's.

My fav is my Uniden 66 that I've had since about 1996, it pushes a Grey 150 that has been Capped. I usually run the 3' Wilson Silver Series ant and the Lil Will mag mount.

I have a Galixey 33 that I use for a base most of the time, with a ground plane that Satisfaction CB shop in N Springhill, LA built.

A big ole Merry Christmas to all,

Farmer Brown

 

You get a compitition made 2 pill varible box hooked in with what you have and you will be strokin lol

 

Never heard of that before in my life (of course I'm kinda young). I found a video on youtube, it seems awesome!! I'll have to get "The Fireman" (local CB builder/repairer) to build it for me.

Heres the video I found Its sweet!

 

Hey SCRebel, thats what I'm talking about!! I like that vid. I know a Galixey 44 is varible, is your Marage and/or the modulator? That makes it alot better when your 'driving' a high drive box like the one in the vid.

If you can, go to a welding outfitter or a place where they sell welding lead and get some at least #4, measure careful though and get enuff to go from the battery to back behind the seat. Mount your boxes back there and have toggle switches on the dash. Have the CB guy to help with this and mount you a fan in your modulator and the box when you get it.

There should be some rubber plugs up under truck so you can come under the cab with the wire and coax. Use tie straps and split a tire tube or something to wrap around and sheild the wire and coax when you get around ANY sharp edges---Also, put a fuse at the battery.

There should be some youtube vids on CB Shoot-outs. Also do a search on Dave Made.

 

My Mirage has a E-tone, and a mic/rf gain, and a rf power. idk if its variable. But my modualtor is variable.

I sell #2 gauge wire on a 50ft roll at work so wire is no issue. Im sure the Fireman will help and more than likely he will build fans in the boxes. The linears he make (which we around here call "Cherry Bombs') has two fans built into them, so I know he can do it. He has been around for awhile and knows the ropes.

How about a waterproof circuit breaker of 150 amps, or maybe two 150 amp circuit beaker? (We sell these at work) I know my modulator alone has a 75 amp fuse in it.

Thanks for all the info and advice Formerbrown!

 

well its time to bring this thread back out! I just picked up a Hustler 42" Steel whip for my truck. I decided that the dual whips were to much of a PITA to deal with. I have a pic of the antenna and my radio up later.

 

Just got done tuning my ant. a little bit ago. I got it to 1.2 at channel 1 and 1.5ish at channel 40, not to shabby. Heres some pics of my set up.

 

I run a Cobra 25wx with the weather stations on it, Have 2 5' Wilson antennas both mounted on springs. Gives the truck a big presence lol

Hutch17 How did you mount it up there!!!?

I am looking to remount my cb up there but don't want to a. go through the roof or b.drill into cab light wiring!

 

I just popped 2 screws in there. I only used 1" screws and I don't have cab lights

 

ive got my dash all torn apart to clean it up (mice/rats). i need to get it recoverd and back together before i can mount my cb....

 

So glad you shared! My wife wants her 29 mounted like that. I wasn't sure about what screws to use and where to put them thru. Up like that keeps the head and eyes up and more focused toward the general area that they should be, instead of down.

Great job, Farmer

 

Thanks! I did have it mounted of the dash but I didnt like it there and There was no easy way to route the coax

 

I always try to run a radio in my trucks. I have a 1997 f350 4x4 and run a northstar am/fm cb radio with a 4 ft stainless whip mounted to tool box.

 

Sell that little antenna and throw a K40 up on your roof,for a small roof they're even better than a Wilson because of the capacitor in the antenna.
I used K40's for many years,still do. Heck,I've talked barefoot in my old Chevy wagon during bad weather to two mobiles talking to each other in England,a few minutes later to Holland and then to a guy in South Africa using a barefoot Uniden Quarter Dime,a D104M6B and the K40 on USB.
For an easy cheap quick tuning tip on K40's loosen the antenna lock/adjusting screw,let the mast bottom out in the stinger,pull the mast up 1/4" and your SWR should be pretty close to perfect.
BTW,I got started in CB in 1966 or 1967,back then I ran an Olsen 717 5 tube radio mobile,it pushed only 2 1/4 watts at the back of the radio.Using an Allied speech compressor with a stock mic and a 102" whip I managed to talk to Venezuela one day so I have a pretty good idea of what works.
If you can think of a CB radio made between the early 1960's and 2000,base or mobile other than most of the Galaxies,I've had at least one of them.
I lived in Chicago back then and I bought the very last 6 Cobra 2000's Dynascan(Cobra) had back then,direct from the factory,along with the last extra speakers they had and saw that crummy piece of junk that they tried to replace the 2000 with and even had copies of the test printing brochures for it before anybody knew what they coming out with.
If I could post some old pics here of my shack with massive stacks of Browning Golden Eagles from the Browning S9 thru MK IVA's,Tram D201's including the first ones that were hardwired with VOX,Sonar 2340's with the old BR21 CB business band amps,Courier Chrome Toasters,all the Robin's,green and yellow,Allied A2567's,( some of the first 23 channel radios,they also had ch 22A,for 24 channels) and on & on.
You can ask anybody in Chicago on CB in the 90's about "Uncle Lar's" antique radio museum as they called it.A bunch of us ran CH 18 using barefoot tube radios,mostly Browning's,back then.We had between 15&20 people running Browning's.
"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that PING".

 

I'll be installing a pair of radios in my truck. A Yaesu 8800R 2 Meter/70 cm dual band HAM and a Cobra 148 GTL CB unit.

My truck spent it formative years with the Southern Nevada highway maintenance system so it has two existing holes in the roof for NMO mounts. I'll have to look around to see if there's anything in NMO compatible with CB (11 meter) frequencies.

I'll throw some pictures up when I have them in hand and installed. If any of you have done a CB antenna in NMO mount, let me know what you did to make it work.

Ray