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i wolud like to know if i should get a cb radio fo my truck or if there a differnt one that every body uses now the a cb and if so what brand should i go with im on a really tight budget
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Pathfinder III
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The easy answer is who do you go out with, but if it were me I would get a handheld GMRS radio that you can keep in your rig or transfer between rigs/cars.i wolud like to know if i should get a cb radio fo my truck or if there a differnt one that every body uses now the a cb and if so what brand should i go with im on a really tight budget
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Pathfinder III
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Most organized/guided tours now use GMRS as a standard. I would recommend Midland GXT67 handheld to start with, it is practically indestructible and will run a long time on a charge.like i said i'm by my self most of the time but i want to some of the guided tours and would like to make shore i had the some wave langht and i was seeing what brand of radio is a good one to start with for cheap do to me being new and just getting in to overlanding
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Influencer III
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CB is dead. 5 years ago I took a 4,000 mile trip to Wyoming and back. I heard one conversation in 3 weeks. Gmrs and ham are your better bets.i wolud like to know if i should get a cb radio fo my truck or if there a differnt one that every body uses now the a cb and if so what brand should i go with im on a really tight budget
Member III
Even up here in New England I hear conversation over CB regularly. Daily. But that is usually when I am nearing some sort of intermodal center, trucking hub, or whatnot, but I do hear conversation around the I-90 and route 2 E-W corridors daily. I do NOT hear much at all in the greater Boston area, say, inside of the route 128 arc. Maybe there's too much "far and in between" in a place like Montana or Wyoming, I dont know, as the CB is only supposed to be a 4 or 5 watt device.CB is dead. 5 years ago I took a 4,000 mile trip to Wyoming and back. I heard one conversation in 3 weeks. Gmrs and ham are your better bets.
Midland is a good bet for plug and play. If you are willing to learn a bit and use your computer to program a radio you can get a decent radio for like $40, and be able to listen on far more frequencieslike i said i'm by my self most of the time but i want to some of the guided tours and would like to make shore i had the some wave langht and i was seeing what brand of radio is a good one to start with for cheap do to me being new and just getting in to overlanding
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