Hi folks,
Merry Tuesday and all that.
I’ve got a couple of mates who are on the CB bus and I wondered, if (and only if) I did decide to go down that route, what would you recommend and why? (assuming I was a total CB novice, which I might as well be).
Pure curiosity at the moment mind, but I am (unwillingly) being slowly talked into it!
As above. My boss isn’t a fan though, so it’d need to be very discreet, and the easier to transfer to another motor, the better. I’m dead close to Lymm if anyone can recommend any of the gear in there.
Either buy new or buy used from someone like me who actually knows what they’re doing when they realign them. Anything you see second hand on Ebay treat with mistrust.
The antenna is the most important part so spend your money there. The Sirio Performer 5000 is a very good antenna and you can use a magmount thrown on the roof of the cab to get you started as long as its a steel roof and not ally or fibreglass. Sirio 3000 and 4000 are cheaper options that work well. You’ll need a SWR meter to check the antenna is in tune although the Sirio 5000 is so wide banded it should be OK.
CB wise, lots to choose from. Get one with a real rotary channel selector though as a lot that don’t have a default channel they’ll go to every time you turn them on which will do your head in after a while. The Midland, TTI, President and Cobra stuff is all OK. TTI do a several 12/24V radios. If you are planning installing permanently and have a spare DIN slot, the TCI TCB1100 fits in a DIN slot and has a front facing speaker. Also if you’re planning doing a permanent install I’d put a fixed mount on the roof for the antenna rather than using a magmount. Mirror mounts are utter crap performance wise.
If you are buying everything new £150-£200 should see you sorted.
Wish I had time to go find all that. You’d make a killing if you sourced it and knocked it out in a box for £200, naturally you’d need to make sure it was the buyers responsibility to chase up any warranty issues
Are all handhelds a pile of tat?
Boss really isn’t keen on us fitting stuff to our motors, especially things that don’t gain him any advantage
I’ve got a Sirio PL600 antenna and a president Truman CB. The CB is really simple to use and I get out for miles on the AM frequency.
Getting the SWR right is essential - I think the whole set up cost £100
I’d have a nice set up if I knew other drivers and the night loaders wouldn’t ■■■■ about with stuff. That was why I asked about handhelds.
I’ve got the old set up from my MkV Cortina in my shed, aerial, mag mount, SWR meter, patch lead, the lot, but it’s all massive.
And the Harvard rig was crap, even back then.
In the past month 2 iPhone leads have gone missing, 1 has got broken, along with a phone holder. The DAB receiver I attached to the dash miraculously fell off after another driver used my motor for just one day, it had been there for a month, and since I stuck it back, it’s been there a fortnight, but he swears he never touched it. Funny that!
new radios FM/AM legal
Cobra 29 great rig