Install CB radio or not?
I have a nice CB radio from a few years back from our last RV. With cell phones, GPS with traffic/etc., and FRS radios, does CB still have a place under the dash? I don't just want to throw it away...
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I have a CB under the seat sitting on CH19 with the squelch turned up all the way. This makes the CB only good for the few hundred feet around me when on the road...
I like listening to catch any road hazards ahead of me and of course any RADAR positions along the road.... The CB language is still very bad... I've been told to move over a couple of times but never answer back haha... I just move over... I know they are talking to me as I am the only OFF-ROAD POPUP running on the road hehe.. They are bigger than I am for sure... I have Ham radio antennas on my unit so I guess they figure I have CB too... I do have some words on the back of my POPUP that I monitor 52 for Ham Radio...
I don't think I have ever another RV'er on the CB... I have never used to it talk to anyone - just listen... Nothing like it was back in the 50s and 60s for sure... I am probably one of the few peoples that has a FCC issued license with call sign and I can't remember my CB call sign now haha... KBX5218 I think it is
We use the FRS/GRMS walkie talkie around the camp sites with private line turned on... Gatlinburg TN used to have a GRMS repeater to cover their winding roads in town up and down the shopping strip... I think the GRMS has to registered to be legal...
If we want reliable comms we always use the cell phones. Have made many trips heading up and down the roads with cells phones on all the time keeping in touch with both vehicles being used...
Would I buy a CB - Probably not...
There has been a push of late to start a RV CLUB thing using CB radios in an effort to get more people to use the CB radios I reckon... The CB's would probably be more used by the RV TRAVELERS than the Rv campers... Being small footprint and OFF-ROAD capability I guess I am a RV CAMPER. Very seldom get more than 200 miles away from home here in Virginia. Occasionally a trip to Myrtle Beach and Gatlinburg TN...
I can still make the drive through at McDonalds and any gas stop hehe...
Roy Ken
I like listening to catch any road hazards ahead of me and of course any RADAR positions along the road.... The CB language is still very bad... I've been told to move over a couple of times but never answer back haha... I just move over... I know they are talking to me as I am the only OFF-ROAD POPUP running on the road hehe.. They are bigger than I am for sure... I have Ham radio antennas on my unit so I guess they figure I have CB too... I do have some words on the back of my POPUP that I monitor 52 for Ham Radio...
I don't think I have ever another RV'er on the CB... I have never used to it talk to anyone - just listen... Nothing like it was back in the 50s and 60s for sure... I am probably one of the few peoples that has a FCC issued license with call sign and I can't remember my CB call sign now haha... KBX5218 I think it is
We use the FRS/GRMS walkie talkie around the camp sites with private line turned on... Gatlinburg TN used to have a GRMS repeater to cover their winding roads in town up and down the shopping strip... I think the GRMS has to registered to be legal...
If we want reliable comms we always use the cell phones. Have made many trips heading up and down the roads with cells phones on all the time keeping in touch with both vehicles being used...
Would I buy a CB - Probably not...
There has been a push of late to start a RV CLUB thing using CB radios in an effort to get more people to use the CB radios I reckon... The CB's would probably be more used by the RV TRAVELERS than the Rv campers... Being small footprint and OFF-ROAD capability I guess I am a RV CAMPER. Very seldom get more than 200 miles away from home here in Virginia. Occasionally a trip to Myrtle Beach and Gatlinburg TN...
I can still make the drive through at McDonalds and any gas stop hehe...
Roy Ken
