CB Radio

[plattman]

Cleaning out some attic stuff and found a CB radio from back in the day. Probably headed for the dumpster. Does anyone use one now days?

 

[PJH]

Cleaning out some attic stuff and found a CB radio from back in the day. Probably headed for the dumpster. Does anyone use one now days?

My daughter-in-law is a school bus driver. The bus drivers use CB's to communicate with the coal haulers. We have some hilly, curvey roads with poor visibility, and the bus drivers can let the coal haulers know when and where they are stopping. I have no doubt that the cb's have prevented accidents with trucks and school buses.

 

[Steven Allen]

Cleaning out some attic stuff and found a CB radio from back in the day. Probably headed for the dumpster. Does anyone use one now days?

Likely functional?

 

[Texasmark]

Breaker one nine.......yak yak. Be seeing you "Good buddy.".....smokey on the side of the road at Mile Marker 123.....taking pictures!!!!!

 

[Wdj]

A requirement for traveling timber company roads.

 

[504]

I have a new truck on the way( that can mean next week or maybe by Christmas) and I am putting one in it. Maybe an FM this time.

 

[SkipperII]

Still use them in our trucks that go into lumber mills, and gravel pits.

 

[Ray,IN]

I still have 5 CB radios. One is a still in the box Dale Earnhardt #3 model + a pair of #3 driving gloves. I have one #8 for Jr. too. Somewhere I have an old Cobra SSB radio with 80 extra channels added for a total of 160 channels, some of which cannot be used because they get into the military radio bands.
I have one in the motor home for road travels, because it's the only instantaneous communication available that's commonly used.

 

[Tony in SD]

Not as common as they once were. One of my jobs in the late 70s early 90s was a CB repairman. I trouble shot to component level. There were only a few CB manufactures. Most of CBs were the exact same circuit board inside. The only difference was the brand name and case it was put in. Interestingly enough even the more expensive models were the same circuit board inside as the cheap ones. The difference was the expensive ones had more switches on the face that you could set. Most of those set and were never changed. The cheap models only had on/off/volume, squelch, channel and did not have other switches. The cheap models were wired to the default setting, Usually where you had the switch set on the expensive models.

 

[504]

I Still have the SSB and the slider to go with it. I did sell the Maco!

 

[DWF]

I bought a new Western Star Dump Truck a few years ago that came with a Cobra CB. Use it when I am in the gravel pit to tell them what I need and what volume I need. One of the pits has a scale, but no one in it. If the loader operator is busy we use the CB to tell him our weight.
DWF

 

[Phill Tibbetts]

I have an old Browning Golden Eagle set down cellar. They were the cat's Pajamas's years ago.

 

[Gambles]

Not as common as they once were.

A local factory owner here had four (yes, 4!) Lincoln Continental Town Cars in storage. He recently thinned the herd down to two. They are all 1979 models. They all have AM/FM, 8-track, 23 channel CB factory radios.
I know what shops did when any part of that radio failed. They just swapped them and they were rebuilt by a Ford-contracted shop.

 

[Tony in SD]

A local factory owner here had four (yes, 4!) Lincoln Continental Town Cars in storage. He recently thinned the herd down to two. They are all 1979 models. They all have AM/FM, 8-track, 23 channel CB factory radios.
I know what shops did when any part of that radio failed. They just swapped them and they were rebuilt by a Ford-contracted shop.

I actually worked on one of those all in one POS. The biggest problem with them was the hide away antenna. It was common for the antenna to stick and not fully extended. That would cause the antenna to be out of tune and reflect the power back to the transmitter rather than over the air. That power would in turn overheat the output transistor and fry it. That particular transistor was a proprietary part and took our shop months to get.

 

[Texasmark]

I bought a new Western Star Dump Truck a few years ago that came with a Cobra CB. Use it when I am in the gravel pit to tell them what I need and what volume I need. One of the pits has a scale, but no one in it. If the loader operator is busy we use the CB to tell him our weight.
DWF

Western Star builds some impressive equipment.