C.B. Radios...
Lead Driver
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 7,406
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From: Wheatland, Mo
I believe it was a Wilson....I took it all off about 8 months ago. The mounting bracket is just a fender mount bracket. Worked out pretty good.
Senior User
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 169
Likes: 1
From: Anchorage, Alaska
I use mine primarily for NOAA Weather, and they are practically mandatory equipment on the Dalton Hwy. No cell phone reception there for over 400 miles, and it's the only way for the oversize-load pilot cars to contact you and warn you to get your a$$ over to the side of the road!
Cargo Master
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 3,215
Likes: 8
From: WV
Same here.. no cell service so it works good when traveling in groups.
Mostly though, I use it for listening. I can also get the weather stations with mine which is handy.
And, when we're traveling somewhere and we come up on traffic backed up for miles. 10 times out of 10 you can listen in on the CB and hear about how to get around it -- which lane to get in, which exit to take to go around it, etc.
Mostly though, I use it for listening. I can also get the weather stations with mine which is handy.
And, when we're traveling somewhere and we come up on traffic backed up for miles. 10 times out of 10 you can listen in on the CB and hear about how to get around it -- which lane to get in, which exit to take to go around it, etc.
Post Fiend
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 26,966
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From: Texas
I did the overhead mounting idea, but didn't go through as much trouble as GrumpyMoose. I just screwed through the headliner into the support.
Had to tighten the screws a little after the first couple of hundred miles, but it's been fine up there for the last couple of hundred thousand miles.
Had to tighten the screws a little after the first couple of hundred miles, but it's been fine up there for the last couple of hundred thousand miles.
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Junior User
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 90
Likes: 0
From: Northern CA
Cobra 29 or Uniden 78 is going to be your best performing radio for the money involved. Stay away from that Cobra 18 radio unless you don't mind talking 100 feet or so. There are plenty of export radios on the market, but may not be worth the money if you are not using it daily.
Also, remember the most important part of your cb setup, is the antenna. You can make even that Cobra 18 work better with the right antenna for your vehicle.
Looks like you made a nice radio choice!
Also, remember the most important part of your cb setup, is the antenna. You can make even that Cobra 18 work better with the right antenna for your vehicle.
Looks like you made a nice radio choice!
Post Fiend
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 13,710
Likes: 5
From: Manchester, CT
Cobra 29 or Uniden 78 is going to be your best performing radio for the money involved. Stay away from that Cobra 18 radio unless you don't mind talking 100 feet or so. There are plenty of export radios on the market, but may not be worth the money if you are not using it daily.
Also, remember the most important part of your cb setup, is the antenna. You can make even that Cobra 18 work better with the right antenna for your vehicle.
Looks like you made a nice radio choice!
Also, remember the most important part of your cb setup, is the antenna. You can make even that Cobra 18 work better with the right antenna for your vehicle.
Looks like you made a nice radio choice!
Tuned
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 474
Likes: 3
Yea the old 21 channel radioes are in the same band as the newer 40 channel cb radioes. CB radioes.got so popular in the seventies the FCC let us go to the 40 channel radioes for more frequencies and most manufactures went to digital tuners as that time as well. They have also always had the side band radioes where you have say channel 15 and also the high side and a low side of 15 also in a fm instead of am frequencie I think. On side band you usually have a twenty to 100 mile range unlike the common 1 to 5 mile on the AM side. But when condictions are right u can talk thousands of miles on a regular CB which is called shooting skip as the radio waves skip off the atmosphere. Keep the shiney side up and the greasy side down as I got to back her on down here, 10-4.
Laughing Gas
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 1,025
Likes: 1
From: Clearwater Fl.
I am getting ready to buy a cb radio for my truck. I have been watching this thread, and another. So, here is what I did. I just joined a cb radio forum. I figue, why not ask the people who are really into cb radios. It's like this site, you are asking for help from people who are into Ford Trucks. Here is the link to the cb radio forum web site. www.cbradioforum.com
FTE Legend
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 65,938
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From: Millersville, MD
Lots of old timers here on FTE...and lots of us old timers had CB radios in their vehicles since before most of you were even born! We do know a thing or two about a LOT of things! My first CB was a 23 channel Knight kit hybrid (some transistors-mostly vacuum tubes) that I used for many years...max output was maybe 2.5 watts! But I talked from Key West to Miami (no skip), no problem. Also no truckers on the radio at that time. And ALWAYS used FCC call signs!