Welcome back!!I am having a CB installed tomorrow! Looking forward to getting out onto Interstate-64 and Interstate-69 to see if anyone is on the bands!
r/Mike
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Tell us about your newly installed equipment setup and please give kudos to your radio shop used ?
Vehicle Model ?
Antenna Model ?
CB Radio Model ?
Antenna Placement ?
SWR tuned and tested ?
CB Radio Shop Company ?
OK Good Buddy back at you
Agree!!Cool but if you really want to get into this hobby you're gonna want sideband.
Some of those crazies gave gone on to ham! https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/14747Plenty of truckers still have CB on board. However, many of their radios are turned down or turned off until they see a traffic hold-up or something unusual. Then they'll often tune in CB Channel 19 to find or report what the problem is and what might be done to avoid it.
The CB is not so much a hobby for truckers anymore or as much a means to communicate socially. For that, cell phones and satellite radios and the Internet when parked take care of that. Nowadays, for many truckers, CB is more of a tool to help them with traffic conditions and at loading docks etc. It's still the best thing available for that type of worthy assistance.
Perhaps the biggest problem with using the CB today for any serious purpose are the mentally and/or emotionally ill and/or extremely lonely misfits who are sometimes heard on the air trying to fill the voids in their lives and in the process trying to make everybody else as miserable as they are. Usually you can't hear them but for a few miles unless you take the proactive step to squeeze them out with that wonderful knob called squelch.
Perhaps the biggest problem with using the CB today for any serious purpose are the mentally and/or emotionally ill and/or extremely lonely misfits who are sometimes heard on the air trying to fill the voids in their lives and in the process trying to make everybody else as miserable as they are. Usually you can't hear them but for a few miles unless you take the proactive step to squeeze them out with that wonderful knob called squelch.