Recommend a good cb base?

 

There is no such thing

 

I like the Browning Golden Eagles the best, then probably the Tram D201. The Brownings have a distintive ping on key up that sounds like the ring of a cyrstal goblet that has been tapped on the edge. These radios though are getting hard to find, for practical purposes I think you'd be happy with a Uniden President Washington.

 

I would agree with your picks. Of course the antenna used will be an integral part of the system also. The "antron 99" seems to be popular now as an omnidirectional antenna. Just get it up in the air!

 

Thanks for the info guys keep it coming.What could I expect to spend
on a base and a antenna. Thanks.

 

Depends on your budget i have a Galaxy Saturn(i paid 475$ for it) and a antron 99 and a ground plane kit(paid 130$ for that).I agree with alanscott on the president washington(not sure of price) and the antron 99 is a good all around antenna(around 100$ w/o ground plane kit).Check this place out to get ideas www.copper.com






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just make sure you ground that antron really good, or have a pro do it, they're fiberglas and it WILL def. draw lightning, more so if you are on a hill, im not preaching for the heck of it, i,ve had personal exp. with them...and lightning

 

We have a CB agitator here in Lincoln, Ne. If you're ever out this way I'm sure you'll hear him as he just can't seem to shut his pie-hole. Ask him what he runs. If you're a trucker, don't tell him cause he HATES truckers. The safety officer for the Werner terminal in Dayton, Ohio once asked how "Uncle Bobby" was doing so I gues he's famous.

 

Agitators.......Hmmmmm..*thinks to self* i love to annoy agitators






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>Agitators.......Hmmmmm..*thinks to self* i love to annoy
>agitators
>
I here ya, I get so tired of the CB Rambo's.
There was a rumour about 6-8 years ago that somebody caught up with one at the Flying J in SLC. I guess he was a typical trash talker and then started whistling on 27.195 through a heater and was tearing up the entire band. Persons unkown proceeded to cut a V notch in his lower lip with a pair of side cutters. I think that would just about take care of any future whistling problems.
For those that might not know, there is a full channel gap between 19 (27.185) and 20 (27.205), which is 27.195. There are other gaps in the lower 23 but I can't remember off the top what they are.
For my mobile use, it's a HR2510 into a 16 pill Pirate and twin Terminator antennas, I gotta run battery cable to the Pirate. I justify that much overkill becuase I spend a lot of time year round in the Rockies where cell phones just don't cut it.

 

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 11-Aug-02 AT 09:41 PM (EST)]16 pill pirate? Justify that? Oh I see....you're just better than the average cb'er so you're allowed to "take liberty" with the law. No one else can be heard but by golly you will be, right? Well, have fun with your illegal little set-up there "good buddy". Never mind that you could be causing interference through harmonics or in other ways to legal transmissions such as ambulance equipment, police, amateur radio, or just other folks who didn't know that if they were one of the priviledged few they too could run 20,30,or 50 times the legal output on their little rad shack special. You may be a mighty fine fella but all you're doing by being using illegal equipment is making it more difficult for those who "play it staight". I'm off the soap-box now....waiting for the blast... Oh and another thing....nice lookin' truck Alan.

 

>16 pill pirate? Justify that?

I did.

>Oh I see....you're just better
>than the average cb'er so you're allowed to "take liberty"
>with the law.

Actually I figure I am below average, I don't have the fancy echo box, talk back, built in animal screams or use the roger beep.

>No one else can be heard but by golly you will
>be, right?

Well, yeah, uh, that's the point to the whole thing. If I ever come upon you after you've crashed when it's 20 below and visibilty is about 30 feet, I bet you too would be happy that I have it.

>Well, have fun with your illegal little set-up
>there "good buddy". Never mind that you could be causing
>interference through harmonics or in other ways to legal
>transmissions such as ambulance equipment, police, amateur
>radio,

I figure all of the above to be an asset.

>or just other folks who didn't know that if they were
>one of the priviledged few they too could run 20,30,or 50
>times the legal output on their little rad shack special.

Uh, how about 500 times and it's a Uniden, not Radio Shack.



>You may be a mighty fine fella

Thanks!

>but all you're doing by being
>using illegal equipment is making it more difficult for
>those who "play it staight". I'm off the soap-box
>now....waiting for the blast...

No blast, just a damp fart


> Oh and another thing....nice lookin' truck Alan.

Thanks again!

 

That's telling em *falls off chair again*






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well, i have to say...my mobile..has more power than ANY car stereo you can buy today...it can bleed into mcdonalds drive up system from a block away, do i go and key over on em from a block away? NO. lol
it's just that when ya have the power, ya gotta use it wisely, besides, it makes for a convo started when you can dim your lights (and your neighbors) just by keying your mike!