I thought the point of having a CB was to BE on the trucker channels?
Jim Cathey wrote:
radios, so they tend to be poor quality designs. The audio output is
usually insufficient to be heard over road noise without holding the
radio to your ear.
The CB in the Unimog worked, even floored on the highway with me
wearing shooting muffs. It was mounted over my head, though.
The range is so short that if one person in the
caravan breaks down, they have less than a minute to make themselves
heard before everyone gets out of range.
That's a real problem with CB too unless you're using a real antenna.
Only the rooftop magnetic mount antennae I've tried haven't given me
a noticeable problem with this when caravanning. (I've never used an
even better hard-mount whip antenna.)
Finally, everyone's started
giving FRS radios to their kids as walkie talkies, so right when you
need to use it there's usually some five-year-old on the channel
singing
the alphabet song.
Breaker, breaker. This here's the rubber duck.... and he's the one!
He makes bathtime oh so fun...
CB is really attractive now because that's pretty much gone from there.
Avoid the few trucker's channels and you're pretty much alone. Unless
you run afoul of some souped-up bozo with an echo mike that's splattered
across most of the channels. I started listening at 1, and moved to 2,
etc. We use 3 on caravan, and almost _never_ have to move off of it.
To 4, of course.
-- Jim
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