I am going to get a new CB radio for my cab. I don’t want to spend a fortune but I want it to work well and it needs to be able to take a bit of a beating as I’m a tipper driver. Anyone got any suggestions? Thanks
How well it works is entirely down to the antenna and how it is installed, not the CB. The longer it is the better, the antenna being as clear as possible and not being masked from any vertical metal and as high as possible will get you the best performance.
Sirio 3000 is a good antenna with a whip that can be bent over double. Can you drill a hole in the cab roof? If so then use a fixed mount, it’ll work the best. Failing that, lip mount if your wagon has a gutter, magmount in the middle of the roof (but not on the sunroof) is the last solution as magmounts can be knocked off.
As for the CB on the other end of the antenna cable, it really doesn’t matter - the antenna and its installation is the thing that’ll be the difference between it working 1 mile or 20 miles up the road. The small CRT One and Albrecht AE6110 work well. You will want an external speaker that you can point towards you to make it easier to hear the radio over the in cab noise.
Wilts81:
I am going to get a new CB radio for my cab. I don’t want to spend a fortune but I want it to work well and it needs to be able to take a bit of a beating as I’m a tipper driver. Anyone got any suggestions? Thanks
I’m a tipper driver and I don’t bother with one anymore. Who do you work for? I ask because of your username being “Wilts”? If you work for the crowd from Ogbourne St George, they supply their own cb equipment and fit it.
When I lived in the UK I ignored the ‘Bigger is better’ talk, I totally agree with the comment above, it’s the antennae that makes the radio. I used a small Midland set and had it connected to a Modulator, it gave amazing reception and transmission, I wouldoften be in conversation with big heads who had huge radios and burners who thought they were amazing even though I could be 50 miles away and still talk to them. Over here I use the same sort of set up, the smallest Cobra radio, with just a couple of nobs and it is tiny, I hooked it to the nearest thing In could find to a Modulator, not quite as good, but still idiots with huge radios talk to me from distance bragging about how big their CB is but I still interrupt them with my little radio.
Just buy a small radio and a good antennae.
Is it just me that thinks of duelling banjo’s whenever CB radio’s are mentioned ?
(for any members that don’t know what duelling banjo’s is, imagine deep south folk who are VERY fond of their sisters) 
eagerbeaver:
Is it just me that thinks of duelling banjo’s whenever CB radio’s are mentioned ?(for any members that don’t know what duelling banjo’s is, imagine deep south folk who are VERY fond of their sisters)
More fond of pigs…
" …Squeal piggy, squeal!!.."
eagerbeaver:
Is it just me that thinks of duelling banjo’s whenever CB radio’s are mentioned ?
I didn’t know you’d worked for Earthline?
What Conor and Pat said. Rigs are much of a muchness,it’s in the antenna.
A quality one with quality cable and connections as high as you can get it. Then it pays to take the time getting the SWR as low as it’ll go.
Roof mounts are always best if you’re handy with a drill
eagerbeaver:
" …Squeal piggy, squeal!!.."
"Squeal like a pig boy. "
As a few have said it depends on how good the antenna is and where its located,and if the SWR is correct.
When you say NEW do you mean NEW as in NEW or a second hand one new to you,if its second hand it could have been looked at by a so called “rig doctor” be careful