Here's Why YOU SHOULD TRASH YOUR CB RADIO! 

Ham radio works far better than any CB ever built.

@@1OFGODSOWN too bad HAM is over regulated like everything else

@@professorx7398 Ham radio allows access to repeaters and a bunch of other fancy functions, but a ham license grants FCC unrestricted access to your home whenever they show up. C.B. doesn’t have as many bells and whistles, but it doesn’t grant bib brother unlimited access to your home either.

who here would ditch their cell phones for cb? 5G is microwaving us all even worse than 4G.

@@1OFGODSOWN In your car?

Uhf and HF radios are. CB's are almost non existant, but still fun.

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You copy this is candy cane

Do your phones always work in the mountains? The C/B will.

I live where was at one time, was called the great American desert. When the band was open CB was effectively useless, I suspect it's the same in VK land. Because agriculture is such an entitled, sector in the USA, while not perfect cellular coverage is decent for most

John Harrelson you should set up a base station.The DX cycle has bottomed out and will get better as time passes.Nothing like talking overseas to Australia.

CB has saved my butt more than one time on brake checks that just happened especially on curvy roads. Talked to many full grown bears in Texas especially during the graveyard shift. County Mounties were friendly too...except the ones that wanted to write me a speeding ticket...LOL. Still running a base station. Been re-tired from trucking many years, and I don't miss it one bit.

Thanks for sharing John!

Then maybe it's time to elect powers that be that are more friendly to us.

@@ALSmith-zz4yy that's not possible because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

@@willdwyer6782 There is no power if a person is not re-elected. Reciting rhetoric does not absolve you and everyone else of your civic duty to get out and vote, while you still have that right.

@@ALSmith-zz4yy The problem is that the true powers that be are not elected, picked or chosen. I'd guess they mainly buy their power and will have it until those that do their bidding, quit!

@@tracyfunk3928 So who can you buy power from that can't be controlled?

Spot on sire. When SHTF and GSM is knocked out, helloo CB, +AM folk.

Nice Envisioned Illustration!!💯 Couldn’t of said it Better!

Bullshit, that area is open to air movement from the blower winter /summer, plus cold air tends to hang low, I used to be a cber and a ham until the radio service became a joke gave away all my stuff around 2005, got a desk top and never looked back.

@@w1pev695 No, it makes me an electronics amateur and a student of physics and I had a bigger radio set up like that with more clutter and never had a problem and if you have a technicians license well good for you.

I thought the same but with just 5 watts output, and the limited airspace, it should be ok.I just wouldn’t personally mount it there.

I did a similar installation with a similar sized Cobra in my 1989 escort back in the day. It worked well and the Velcro was fine. No problems with heat build up as I very rarely transmit.

Stick a computer fan to the heatsink with high-temp. Silicone etc.

Im still rocking the GE 40 channel my grandpa put in his old Chevy camper hauler back in the 70s and still works good

Those are exspensive

The same type person that consistently puts misleading titles on his videos. Almost as annoying as the face he keeps making like he smells something awful continuously.

Yeah but it would of been stolen anyway. So $20 is still a win. Lol

seriously , nothing wrong with haggling but come on, 35 bucks? i hate cheap skates. my dam dad is one and it always annoy me.

BushidoKi I hate cheap skates too! They are very dangerous. I bought a pair for $5 once and took them midnight skating and got up really fast and 5 of the 8 wheels come off. I knocked over a crowd of elderly people try to do the limbo. It was horrible!

Yep...I met your wife on c.b. too .What a small world! (Ha ha...just jokin')

@@robertzaborowski3587 🤣

If you get a base station with a good antenna you might find there is more traffic than you think. Around me you have traffic on the Super Bowl (ch 6), Sesame Street (ch 19) and a lot of locals on 15, 16 and 34. It's coming back. I used to pick up radios for $5 at yard sales but now those radios are getting $30-40.

I wholeheartedly agree! CB is fun and useful. I do ask anybody reading this to be respectful of others while operating on the CB frequencies; don't be a douchebag. Licensed as a General Radiotelephone operator (commercial radio/TV) in 1976, licensed as an amateur radio operator in 1993. Oh, and don't forget a little service called FRS - Family Radio Service, which is much better for local conversation than CB, which can skip and is subject to QRN (natural interference and noise) and QRM (man- made interferencee from electrical wires, LED bulbs and the like).

The only reasons one would want a small radio is there not interested in a full featured radio or they only have a small area for installation. Real enthusiasts want features so you want a Magnum or similar type radio. Happy Thursday.

@@danielgeorge9283 Daniel, I found SDR radios. They're ultra cheap and some can tx. Get one just about anywhere 30.00 antenna and all. Hook to a computer.

148 gtl all the way. Love mine. And I have several. 😁

UHF make such units with remote hand held

Google

@@archangel9568 Not in the US, where this video was made.

Midland 75-822 is gonna be the closest to that I think. There are GMRS radios that would probably be better suited, depending on your needs. Wouxon k1000g has a detachable face and I think it's BTech that makes one that can be used entirely through the mic.

Everybody's an expert they bring up stuff from the distant past and pretend like they're the expert and they haven't even been alive that long

My parents used the CB Radio for as long as I can remember and I’m 48 this year.

@@michaelnippert945 That may be true - but what I wrote is true as well

@@yessure5291 that means one thing I see a lot RU-vidrs are a bunch of delusional people you're not a celebrity

@@Multiplemom3452 I have a CB that's 41 years old

There's a app for your phone now days calked waze , if u see the Coppers you just tap it on your screen an it Alerts anyone on it , gives you traffic updates by satellite , suggest alternate routes to take in traffic , alerts to vechiles broke down side of the road , Construction work going on , gives you ETA to your destination, etc etc etc ,

sir, I hope you don't mind me asking but how do amateur radios work differently than a CB radio? in a hz and wavelength point of view. Also, what recourses did you use when getting into amateur radios?

Love the use of a modified double din. I have the Cobra M75 powered mic.

Yeah great, but the other truckers won't talk back to you anymore. I guess too many dinks out there that just want to argue, or the channel is monopolized by some big radio operator so they shut them off. That's what I ended up doing, just shut it off so I don't have to listen to some ignoramous's view of the world from behind his mic.

What do you want a cookie

EMFI2R I also run both with a General Class license.

what is your c/s? NB8Z here. I also use both modes. 73

where does a noob get started?

vinni vegas KC8VJD

Many a prepper should listen to your story.

@@johnbrowning8021 thank you John ...Yes they should ( Be preparar ) is a boy scout Moto and I'm a boy scout from the 1968 to 1974 and believe me we have to use are old boy scout knowledge in Huracain Maria & Gorge + some other storms here in the island of Puerto Rico. In January 2020 we have an earthquake 6.4 that damage some houses , schools, history buildings and are most important electric plant in the island We were whit no electricity in 75 percent of the island for some time. Then the problem came whit some small earthquakes after shoks and the possibility of a big one creating a big Sunami. Then we have Covi19 to add to are problems. Wao what a good way to start 2020 the small earthquakes are still here every day. We have one day over 1,000 very small earthquakes that most people didint notice...so people here start noticing the need of other way of communication that is not there cellphones and Internet whit out electricity in an emergency , And Cb's is one of them it work in Maria & Gorge also in the earthquakes. More people here are taking training whit the civil defense and emergency group's for the next one went if comes hope it don't but we are on the Huracain hayway and Earthquake zone . One big senario that they practice was what will happen if we have a huracain and Earthquake emergency whit covi19 senario...we know that big waves over 20' are part of a huracain but what a Sunami in it ...this the tipe of emergency you are not preper for it...well we here look in to this extremely possibility ...you never know so do like the boys scuot ( Be preper )... Thank you to all that Reed my comment and to all my felow ham, Cb's, boy scout, emergency group's and especially to any peper M

awe the good ol days, not even old analog scanners got much going on now, too much digital :(, uniden bearcat btc7 Ch. 1-40 CB Channels 29- 30 Ham Band-10 Meters 30- 50 VHF Low 118-137 Aircraft 137-144 Military 144-148 Ham Band-2 Meters 148-174 VHF High Band 406-420 Government 420-450 Ham Band 70 Cm 450-470 UHF Band 470-512 UHF "T" Band 806-956 800 MHz Band great for searching Uniden Bearcat BC60XLT-1 another good one for searching

My President Washington radio is terrible. It’ll flat out break if I try using it as a mobile radio. It constantly looses reception. I haven’t found a solution for keeping that damn string taut.

When I was a kid I had a cb with ssb and it was awesome. Does anyone still use ssb today?

@@MrPlowboy66 Hobbyist here in Finland uses usb quite often.

I remember those

I have one too if you want to buy it. Belonged to the old man.

@@KlodFather Thanks but no , I'm trying to get and old 1970 Fisher 500tx Stereo Receiver working again .✌

@@MrRockydee07 - All good. There are still a few floating around. MCM and some other parts suppliers had many of the parts to get those fixed. they are easier since they are through hole construction. Lots of superior choices for replacement parts.

@@KlodFather Ok, I may be wrong it looks like MCM is closed , But I did buy another receiver just for parts .

Nope,I like my 148GTL.Gotta have all the bells and whistles and of course sidebands.

Or anyone else who has one for that junk. Ohh, I dunno,maybe I will get rid of my 500watt Connex.

Anyone got a 40 channel selector switch to suit a Cobra 138XLR they don't want?

@@BentConrod If it's playing up there is a video on youtube explaining how you can drill a hole in the selector and inject some contact cleaner to bring it back to life

@@izzzzzz6 Thanks for the tip but that's not the problem. I'm in Australia, got a 138XLR-A, identical Uniden 858 chassis but only has an 18 channel selector. Great radio other than that. Used to run a Redco Digiscan on it back in the day. No need for it now but all the action branches from ch 35, so thought I'd have a go at a 40 ch switch if I can find one.

You talk to much 😂

@@lesjones5684 It took you two whole years to pop in here to tell me I was hogging the channel?🙄 Well excuuuse meee! This place is more dead than CB without skip and the best you can do is accuse me of talking too much 24 months after I posted. What I said then has had time to circle the sun and entire galaxy before it got back to earth and you think I talk too much? Holy cow 🐄🐮 man. Obviously CB radio was not something you enjoyed as a hobby. Without folks talking on CB, about CB, and every where else they can talk about CB, there isn't much hope out there for CB in the entire totality of CB LAND!🙄 Btw; when using the words "two", "to", or "too", they each have a proper place and application. I've been properly accused of talking TOO much but never accused of talking TO much. Pretty sure my grade school teachers were hard core on that and more details than I can remember about 50 trips around the sun ago. But I reckon I need to back on out of here and let the radio tubes cool down a bit and avoid the ol purple crystal effect on the radiddio. 73s to everyone out there in radio land. We will catch you all on the flip flop. We are clear....

@@johnnorman7708 You go on a bit don't you.

Who cares lol

CB and GMRS for me. Being able to hit local linked repeaters with a handheld is great.

Thank you for your service, officer! Enjoy retirement 🤙

David Branscome I’ve had cb radios for 51 years and I still have a little uniden in my 2015 Chevy Colorado and because I ever liked drilling holes in any of my vehicles so I use Velcro to mount my radios they make Velcro that can hold 20 lbs , holds the radio very secure and to remove the Velcro just clean off the sticky surface with rubbing alcohol.

David Branscome When Sandy hit New Jersey it was not just cell service that went down but I lost internet for 10 days as well. However I understand what your comment is eluding to.

The internet is just a fad

@JadonGamer sarcasm yo

Hdx🐁🐰🐩🍔🍔

I'm that guy! "Thanks big boy"

Yes I cruse the truck stops offering a few bob.(dollars) For dead radios. A good radio will protect its selfe from a power inversion. Just a diode and a check of lands.( repaired.) ( Use finger nail polish to cover scars and repairs to keep the air off my work). Got some fine radios on my shelf. I take one down and run it for a while. All good fun/ ham/ CB/and swl. kv4li.

@@stephenwilliams5201 kil1597...cq,cat,cq how bout it skipland!

@@scottmoore7269 there just so many CB around it would a hard time to silence them. Get them, store them, and hide them. We will need them. And far as sun cycle goes it's on the way up. the skip is beautiful. I hear from Florida, California, Mexico, and Canada. Let her rip. The commies can't get them all... listen to the sweet sound of liberty. Rock on CB. Cq little buddy this is....... covits - 19 up yours. This is one thing (CB)the control freaks will have a tough time bossing. And regulating.... .can't get the fake flue or use a mask on. ...

TRC-??? i had 1 also

I had that same one. It was so fun. Took something like 8 AA batteries or 10 rechargeable, if I recall correctly.