Cb radios

[rocket2]

Does anyone still use them around here?
Still have mine but never got around putting the tower back up and antennas.
Both cb and ham/scanner antennas.
1st I need to find a place that still sells cb coax cable.
American eagle used to them went strictly to stereos ,and eventually went out of business and the store demolished.

[dive61364]

i gave all my CB stuff away 15 years ago.

[super]

Break!

[stiggy]

I know of several farmers who use them for communication between harvest equipment in the fall. It's a shame that so many days of the year the skip is rolling so bad and there are people using way, way overpowered equipment in order to talk skip that local use is very nearly impossible. Very few truckers monitor or transmit anymore. I personally still have two mobile CB radios that date back to the early 1970's but neither work. I don't believe it would take much to get them operational again in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing. I don't know if they have any value as "antique's" or not.

If not for the skip talkers CB's would still be a viable and inexpensive short range communications tool but when the skip is rolling the CB frequencies are useless!

[JimmyB2]

Yeah back when my dad had cbs there was a guy over by Long Point-a good six or seven miles from us with the weakest little mobile unit that would interfere with our television reception.