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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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Traveler III
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CB for me as well along with GMRS, I’m old school and still do some pilot car work from time to time and the CB helps when getting good real time road info in the area from Truck drivers, The life blood of America IMHO…..Short answer is as mentioned above, run what the group or event is using.
Long answer is I run 3 types of radios on trips. CB, HAM and GMRS.
I run solo often and found that a CB still comes in handy when passing through more highly trafficked areas to get reports on the road ahead and listening to the jawing the drivers do.
The past trip I ran a pair of Retivis 20w GMRS units for jeep to jeep communicating and found most others are running GMRS also.
I always have a HT HAM radio in the jeep as well to talk with other HAMs I see on the road and I will be upgrading to a more powerful unit that has the ability to reach out further.
The biggest thing to remember is that the antenna configuration can make or break how well your setup will work.