CB radio recommendations?
Well you've been given some good advice above on some inexpensive radio options. However, if you wish to contact the mother ship, you gotta go big , & that wont be cheap! You need a good export radio, Galaxy, RCI, Connex There are many good radios out there. Keep in mind that none of them new out of the box talk worth a darn. You need to find a good reputable CB shop & have them tune up your radio so it you can be heard good & loud . You need a good antenna, this too must be tuned to the radio, with a quality coax at the correct length, you can spend a thousand dollars on equipment but if it is not set up right & all components properly matched to each other,, you'll still be just another mud-duck in the pond! I've been into CB Radio for about 25 yrs now and have a closet full of the smaller junk described above (no offense intended) The system I run today in my big-rig is as follows: Galaxy 99 Radio, Snowcap Technologies 6 pill amp, RM 400 amp to drive the 6 pill, Predator 10K antenna, 18 ft. coax. The end result is the mother ship is now trying to contact me! I talk all over country with this set-up, and when the skip condition is in, I talk all over the world! So it just depends on what you really wanna do. I f ya just wanna be able to talk across the street any radio will do that for ya, but if ya wanna really get out with the big strappers ya gotta set up a big radio! :laugh: