CB radios

[Cole]

So I'm getting into this now. Yup another hobby for me. That's 3000! J/K but my wife is buggin me about having a billion hobbys so... yeah, I'll admit it. I do

If anyone here is familiar with CB radios, let me know. I have some questions and most likely my american friends can help me out as parts here are expensive

[Crasez58]

CB or ham? I personally would try to get a ham radio I don't know what Canadians have to go through to get a license but in the US it is $15 to take the test

Cb is what truckers use ham is higher power longer range

[Cole]

ohh I never heard of Ham radios. I'm going CB right now as all my buddies have it and the truckers as you mention. We are getting around a mile now... but I'd like to get more around 50 miles. I'll look into that Crazy thanks for the tip

[Crasez58]

Not a problem! If I remember correctly you can boost you signal legaly(at least in the us)http://m.wisegeek.org/how-do-i-increase ... -range.htm

[RPG Dinosaur]

I'm almost a complete layman when it comes to CBs and ham radios, but on the more practical end I just read a newspaper article about how hams are used by a volunteer group to transmit emergency information in the area where I live. If there is an emergency like a natural disaster, you would probably be informed about it much quicker if you owned a ham.

[Cole]

Yeah I pick up the emergency weather channel on my CB already... it's always talking away. That's a cool feature when the zombie apoc hits us all

As for amps, yeah I'm going to look into that Crazy... I got about a mile range now on the open road, that's not bad. I'm going to place an external speaker by my head so I can hear better over my car's engine.

I need an SWR meter asap as I can't tune shit without it... seems impossible to get one here in Canada right now. I'll have to pick one up on ebay I guess.

They are fun though, as a guy pointed out on that website, it's a great alternative to a cell and it works anywhere. I also found a huge benefit here in BC. I can yak on that and not get a ticket...

[Crasez58]

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index ... Id=2036239

Ask and ye shall receive?
If this is any cheaper than it is for you and you want it lemme know

[Cole]

Thanks Crazey

I got one of eBay coming from Ohio soon. If it turns out to be a POS then I'll get this one you posted as it got good reviews

[Crasez58]

my buddy who is big into ham and cb's told me that you can get a cb with the swr meter and power meter built in for not much more might be something to think about

[Cole]

yeah I seen that. The built in ones those are not very accurate though... the external ones are much better (naturally because you have to spend more money)

I've looked into those Ham radios, those are cool! I'll have to wait awhile till I can get one of those as my wife would skin me alive if I ignored my CB now... lol

There's juts something cool about driving around talking to my buddies in town and not being worried about a cop seeing me and handing out a ticket.