Anyone know anything about CBs?

What makes you want to get a CB?

Yomillio wrote: What makes you want to get a CB?

Required for one of the off road clubs I'm a member of. Makes it easier to communicate on trails with larger groups of people. Plus I completely despise cell phones and when we're out wheeling they are extraordinarily unreliable and not practical. 

CB's own. Used to have one in my Cutlass Ciera for the lulz.

carl_the_sniper wrote: Gator Taco wrote: Yomillio wrote: What makes you want to get a CB? Required for one of the off road clubs I'm a member of. Makes it easier to communicate on trails with larger groups of people. Plus I completely despise cell phones and when we're out wheeling they are extraordinarily unreliable and not practical.  That was probably the most rednecked thing that I have ever heard. Though I believe it's said: wheelin' Good job though.

Yes, because anybody who is a member of a huge Off Road club and goes off roading is definitely a redneck.

Keep in mind I said off roading, not mudding. Huge difference.

I have a CB in my truck, and i have a PA speaker hooked up to it as well, for my antenna I just got one of those magnetic ones from radio shack. Originally I had it mounted onto the top of the cab, but now I have it under my spare tire in the bed.

How exactly do you "wheel" in a two wheel drive?

Savage93fvss wrote: How exactly do you "wheel" in a two wheel drive?

You listen to your spotters and you use your head. Locking diffs and decent A/Ts are also pretty handy. I'm not talking about mudding. I am by no means a fan of mud at all. I'm only wheeling my Taco until next summer, then I will be buying an early 90's Wrangler or 4Runner as a trail rig/project vehicle.

Some 2WD action shots.









All of the above vehicles are all 2wd (and locked, with the exception of the Silver FJC which has an open diff). The Silver and White Taco's have been 4x4 converted (after these pics where taken of course).


Edited by Gator Taco - 18 June 2008 at 3:04pm

I thought about getting one installed before I head out west, I remember my father having one on his car when I was little. They're pretty neat, but apart from the drive this summer, I don't see myself using one very much so I canned the idea. 

Hooking up an amp is a pain. They are not hard to come by, you can get them any day of the week by searching ebay for "10 meter" or "ham" amplifier.

But amps require careful calibration to work properly, and you'll need to have a pro set one up for you. You are much better off getting an out-of-the-box cb tweaked and peaked at a cb shop. A shop can bump the output from the standard 3 or 5 watts up to about 25 watts or so. There are how-to articles on the internet for those who are handy with soldering irons, but a shop will do it for less than $50.

Don't even bother with the really big amps, they require big power, and even semis with multiple commercial batteries have to have larger cables and terminals to keep up with the amp's demand.

Enos Shenk wrote: Dont diss on CBs. Theyre ungodly helpful on the highway travelling anywhere. Truckers routinely call out speedtraps, wrecks, and other stuff. I remember driving back from Orlando, all the truckers were talking about a 'parking lot' (CB-speak for a big wreck that turns all the lanes into a standstill) up ahead. So I followed all the trucks off the closest exit, and took a state road around the blocked-up interstate. It was funny, a huge convoy of semis and a few cars and trucks like me bypassing a 4+ hour parking lot.

That is exactly the reason everyone should have one.