Any of you all into CB Radio?

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Yep.
 
I've had one in the truck since the 70's, but rarely turn it on unless we're out on the interstate. I used it a lot more when I traveled for work. My current one is a small Cobra with the NOAA weather channels, which I check often for the next day's forecast.
 
Yep. I have a Cobra in my pickup. Used it all the time when I was on logging roads, hauling my pack string into the wilderness areas in Northern California.

It was a downright necessity and expected that everyone had a CB in their rig. The minute I'd hit a logging road, I'd radio ahead to find out if there were any loaded logging trucks headed my way. If I happened to get anyone on the radio, either he or I would pull over at the next available wide spot and let the other guy get around. It's a real pain backing a loaded stock trailer down a narrow mountain road and I expect it's even tougher to back an 18-wheel loaded logging truck. Like I said, they were a necessity.

I find that I don't use mine as much here in Utah, but I still have it in the truck.
 
chief38 said:
. . . . What I do use is the CB that's built into the radio on my Harley Ultra when we go on trips. Since I usually travel with 6 - 8 others and we all have CB's on board, we use them to communicate and give road hazard, low fuel, nature calls, and other important warnings and advisories.
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Same here, when we do our road trips there is usually several of us with Ultra's who use our CB's to keep the group corraled up. Unfortunately, my new 2014 Ultra has blue tooth instead of a CB . . . and I gotta admit I'm really likeing the blue tooth.
 
Break 19, break 19. Been a long time since I saw one of those. About the same time as the 8 track tape player. Used to have a Cadillac El Dorado with CB built in (I think it was a 1975). Wow, this place really brings back some fond memories.:)
 
Convoy

[on the cb]
Ah, breaker one-nine, this heres the rubber duck. you gotta copy on me, pig pen, cmon?
ah, yeah, 10-4, pig pen, fer shure, fer shure. by golly, its clean clear to flag town, cmon.
yeah, that Big 10-4 there, pig pen, yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy. mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy...

It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
And a Kenworth pullin' logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We's headin' for bear on Eye-one-O
'bout a mile outta Shakeytown
I says "Pigpen, this here's Rubber Duck"
"And I'm about to put the hammer down"



Songwriters
DAVIS, CARL

Published by
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

C.W. McCall - Convoy Lyrics
 
Had an old Johnson black face in the early 60's they were converted ham radio's, all you had to do was jump the big resister and replace the power tube and you jumped from 5 watts to 50 watt's, also had a Contact 23 as a base with a power amp and a beam antenna.
 
Onomea said:
Hey, CW, over 250 countries? Most sources -- e.g., World Countries List, a list of Countries and Regions in the World :: Liste des Noms de Pays du Monde - Nations Online Project -- say there are less than 200.

I am thinking that over your 51 years hamming you must be counting countries that have changed their names -- e.g., Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, Upper Volta/Burkina Faso -- more than once. Or, perhaps, territories, current and erstwhile, like Norfolk Island, Macau, etc.

That is an impressive number though, no matter how you slice it! Never got into ham radio myself, but as a kid was fascinated by the romance and adventure of it.
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For ham radio award purposes there are 340 'countries'. The definition of a country is somewhat arcane and changes from time to time...
Country Lists & Prefixes
 
Mine is a 2004. The factory radio cd player quit taking cd's. The slot is right about 2 din high but the dash bezel comes in around 1/16". You do have to modify the dash to fit two single DIN sizes in. There is a mount the factory radio sits in that is held in the back by a rivet. drill that out and then the bolts and remove that mount. Then where that rivet connects to had to be cut out so the bottom radio will fit. If you study it carefully you can see there is a shelf like area where the back of the bottom radio will sit but the plasitc is molded above that so you cut out the plastic down to that 'shelf'. Then the normal double din mount had a small gap between so I couldn't use it, I just modified the side mounts. The only issue was the antenna. I had to remove the outside of the antenna connector and just plug the center pin in then strip the outer and wrap it around the connector and spin another nut on to hold it. Basically I made a super low profile right angle connector. You can remove another dash bracket rather than modify the antenna cable but that way I did I i can return the factory radio mount if I wanted to.

The radio is a Kenwood with Android control, it will interface with my phone and let me make calls and such or control music.
The CB is the new Uniden SSB.
I also have a fuse/relay panel under the dash going to a secondary battery installed in the factory tray from a diesel (they parallel two for starting) and a surepower voltage controller separator. So I start the truck and the alternator starts charging then when the voltage gets above 13 the combiner relay engages connecting the two batteries. The voltage sense keeps the secondary from loading the primary battery should you run the secondary down low. I've used the same J case fuses for the main circuits and mini fuses and metripack connectors as factory for all the wiring. The trailer charge wire I've connected to my secondary battery as well.

Messy because I was still working on it but the power


A little closer pic


And my 'professional' installer

 
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Thanks EugeneNine.

My factory player ate my Jimi Bold as Love CD and wont give it back.

That's a nice install you did. I'd like something similar but I'm far behind on the tech stuff. When I do get to it I'll remember this. The dual batt is something I'll probably never need but will consider.

Thanks again.
 
The dual battery was for this as well


I just run one line to the back and another to the cab to make use of it there too.
 
I had the cb disease bad in the early-mid 1970s. Had a Hy-Gain 23 channel mobile in my POV, a 23 channel Midland in my patrol car radio console and a Navaho TRC 30A base station at home running a Turner +3 mike to an Astroplane ground plane and a Wilson Y-Quad beam. Still have the little Midland hooked to a power supply out in my shop/reloading room and it still works after over 35 years. Only 23 channels but a great little radio.

"You got the Centurian, KFF-4674, the ratchet jaw cop with the bubble on top down and on the stood by."
 
My forum name here is actually a variation of my CB "handle" from the mid 70's. I had a CB in my truck and a base station at home...Cobra 85 with a D104 power mike and a Hy-Gain Super Penetrator 5/8 wave antenna.

I think that computers and cell phones have largely replaced CB radios.
 
cb radios in this area are still hugely popular here...I have had base and mobiles since the late 60's also have my ham license...both are lots of fun
 
I was into it hot and heavy but just like so many things in this crowded world it became over populated with idiots. The aggressive and profane and idiots and time checks eventually had me taking a lot of '7s (10-7 is the code name for a break or time out) in favor of the radio or 8-track. Those '7s got longer and longer until I just took it out of my truck and sold it.

It even got me a speeding ticket one time. I caught a smokey report from "The Weight Watcher". He said, "Clean and green good buddy. I'm shakin' the trees. Y'all can rake the leaves." CB talk for I'm runnin' ahead of you and makin' sure there's no smokes. You can come on along after me no problem.

Turned out The Weight Watcher was actually THE WAIT Watcher. He was a county mounty. He was WAITIN' and he was WATCHIN'. I hated gettin' the ticket but I had to admit the set up was cool. He cut me some slack in that he just charged me for 10 mph over which is a lot less that what I was doing.
 
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