Who has one in their wagon? or other ride? I'm going for a period look and feel for my Vista Cruiser and I think a CB will add the perfect touch. Also the fact that Smokey and the Bandit is my favorite movie doesn't help any.
I had one in most of the cars that I owned during the past 25 years. Still have one somewhere in storage. Plan to eventually install it into the '58 Ranch Wagon. But have not done so yet.
cb hi i have a cb i bought from radio shack in the usa . fitted in my vw bus when we did a tour of europe to keep in touch with others on the trip in case there was any issues getting lost or traffic jams etc . worked a treat and save on mobile phone calls to each other too ,
C.B Breaker--breaker One-niner! This is Model T. Ya got a copy----come on? CB? Never heard of them! Back 10-8 in a jiffy. I gotta go 10-100 good buddy!
That's better than 10-200! But that's a good copy, Vista is 10 10 on the side. Maybe someone on here has an extra CB they wanna get rid of. Help a fellow wagon owner out?
Make sure you get one with a PA. Nothing is more fun than making people jump in surprise while jogging. Radio shack has a decent PA speaker for cheap. Also help for shouting for help when the 4Runner decides it wants to tip over backwards reeeeeal slow like on a hill climb.
Actually a pa isn't legal in most states. I have a base station. I used to have a cobra 148 in the car but I don't like tearing up the roof or bumper with an antenna. I have a cobra 2000 base station in the house here. With a beam antenna. I had a sweet 16 linear amp when I had the 148 in the car. Id use it when skip rolls in. Skip can get so bad you can't talk two blocks away.
I forgot, the Caprice had one in it, 'til a branch took out the antenna and I just said to heck with it.
Yep, Buddy got out and grabbed the front bumper so i wouldn't go all the way backwards. Backed up and gave it a better run. Scotty, i need full power.....
"Shooting skip" is the ability to have communications from a far greater distance than is usually considered to be the normal range from the CB radio. This is made possible , not by the output power level of the radio , but by an uncommon condition of a upper section of the Earths atmosphere called the ionosphere. When the ionosphere is excited by solar radiation (when sunspots are found on the Sun) it becomes somewhat refractive. So when radio signals comes up from the earth when transmitted , they hit the ionosphere and are progressively turned around and returned back to earth at some distant point back on Earth. At this place your signal can be then heard., however , stations closer than this place are skipped over and they cannot hear you. This is called the 'skip zone'. As an example then ,,, you might be able to have a conversation with a another radio operator 1500 miles away , yet , someone 50 miles away cannot hear you at all. The problem with skip type of communications is that the effect is short lived. As conditions change the long distance signals will fade away and contact will be lost. Because the ionosphere is well above the clouds they are not affected by rain , or other earth level weather systems. What plays the biggest part of whether or not long distance communications are possible is the amount and intensity of the sunspots. At present , sunspot activity is quite low , but over the next year or so this will pick up again and long distance communications will become much more common , and signals will become stronger. You will flip on your CB radio and somebody across the country will come booming into your recieve. At times they become so loud that you cannot hear somebody 2 blocks away from you. Then they will fade out, then come back in again. Talking to somebody in Missouri on your CB radio is fun. But at times skip can be annoying. The only way I can talk to that guy two blocks away when skip is in, is to run a linear amp on my cb radio. Mine is a pirate box, they arent legal but I use it anyways. Sometimes its the only way. Ther linear is so powerful, I have come across peoples Tv sets, opened electric garage doors, set off bank alarms, all kinds of coool things.
