CB radios, useful or not..
I was digging through a box of stuff and found a CB radio that I had in my toad when we were motorhome-ing. For a moment I considered installing it in my Suburban but, it occurred to me that in the 1...
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I use one for work. 10-12,000 miles/month. Wouldn't occur to me to be without it. Not a week goes by without it making or saving money for me. Rarely turned off. As to what's heard, one learns to separate wheat from chaff as part of the background of getting down the road.
Knowing what lane to be in, confirming that an alternate route will work, etc, lessens stress.
And both my pickup and TT have them.
For an ordinary vacationer, sure,, there'll never be a day Internet & phone service is unavailable.
Same for a set of wrenches or a gun. Tools you'll never need, as a mechanic is always close by, and the cops will be there in seconds.
Better to spend a couple hundred on a ground effects LED light kit than a CB.
A mag mount Wilson 1000 antenna and a Cobra 29 are sufficient. Step up to a Cobra 500 speaker and a Ranger SRA-198 mike.
Not two months ago I pulled off the road and made a call for a trucker broke down with a dead cell phone. Never saw him. Got the info to the wrecker service and was on my way.
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Knowing what lane to be in, confirming that an alternate route will work, etc, lessens stress.
And both my pickup and TT have them.
For an ordinary vacationer, sure,, there'll never be a day Internet & phone service is unavailable.
Same for a set of wrenches or a gun. Tools you'll never need, as a mechanic is always close by, and the cops will be there in seconds.
Better to spend a couple hundred on a ground effects LED light kit than a CB.
A mag mount Wilson 1000 antenna and a Cobra 29 are sufficient. Step up to a Cobra 500 speaker and a Ranger SRA-198 mike.
Not two months ago I pulled off the road and made a call for a trucker broke down with a dead cell phone. Never saw him. Got the info to the wrecker service and was on my way.
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