CB radio is alive and well across the country and around the world! It takes next to nothing to establish a station. Interested? Study into antennas, ground plane and Standing Wave Ratio (SWR). Any creativity that aims at these three goals will skip across the country with a well-functioning, old-school stock mobile radio on both AM and SSB. And you might even be pleasantly surprised to discover a local CB community, right in front of your face! If not, start one. What is Freedom without talk around the Water Cooler?
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I thought that CBs only transmitted a relatively short distance. No?
Depends on propagation which depends on frequency, modulation mode, RF power, sunspots, time of day. In ideal conditions you can make very long distance contacts w CB. But generally speaking, 10 miles or so is about it.
Yeah, that's what I thought. Thanks. It's still a neat idea for talking to people close by, but you can't count on it for long distance.
Definitely. If shtf, 10 miles is a long way.