What about CB radios?

Cocked & Locked said:
You would need a power supply for the radio of course. Steel whip inside the shop or outside?
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I would mount it outside, fix a bracket for it to mount to the building some how. It's a metal building so I assume it's grounded good enough. I was wondering if I just took the bracket off of the tool box and mounted it to the building and run the coaxial cable to it if that would work, and yes, I have to figure out a 12 volt power source.
 
Attaching to the metal building is a hit or miss. Google is your friend on that. There are plenty of home made base station antennas out there made from steel whips (or 1/4 wave fiberglass) but they usually need a counterpoise to work efficiently.

Be sure to check your SWR.

Or you could just buy a Antron (now Solarcon) A99 antenna and take it from there.

That way you wouldn't have to be forever screwing around with it. :confused:

https://www.walcottradio.com/solarcon-antron-a99-cb-radio-home-base-station-antenna-p-354.html

Good Luck
 
noway2 said:
Neither does my friend Jack. Neither does he know about the crystal change to get the upper 40 channels.
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Wow, that brings back memories... We had 40 channels way before there were 40 channel radios... Courier Royal base station in the house with an Afterburner 2 Plus feeding a PDL2 quad up on the roof... Also had a hopped up Johnson "whiteface" radio in the car with an "Afterburner 2 Plus" in the trunk... :rolleyes:

Remember the Browning radio's that "Pinged" when you un-keyed the D-104 mic?

Ahhhh, those were the days...
 
I have a General Lee and a small Dave Made Linear around here somewhere...… the threaded part around the antenna cable broke, so I took it out of my truck and I have forgotten about it until now!
 
Sounds like you could On the cable? If so you could put a new PL-259 on the connector and get up and running again.
 
Yeah, I just need to buy a new cable. I dont own the vehicle I had it in now, so I might sell it. I forgot I even had it until this thread popped up.
 
My school buddy had a huge Moonraker at his folks house, it almost took down the chimney during the hurricane circa 1975.
One guy in an apartment complex near us would use an echo mic and his linear, he was funny guy, they went to meet him but I passed.
Had zero time for CB, was into R/C planes and my Estes rockets.
 
Years ago I had. PDL II beam. sold it eventually and put up a Moonraker IV. Both were great. Europe was easy on the flat side when DX was good years ago

These days I just use an A99 vertical and a couple of 11 meter 1/2 wave wire dipoles hung horizontal.
 
Thinking of getting back into CB/SSB again myself. I had an old school Galaxy Saturn with an Antron many, many years ago. Used to talk all over the world on that thing in the early hours of the morning. Anyone know of any reputable CB/Ham shops near Lexington area? The only one I knew of was in Archdale, but has since closed down.
I did have my basic license but let it expire after I got married, thinking seriously about getting re-licensed. KF4EIA (gone but not forgotten)
 
rolangunslinger said:
Anyone know of any reputable CB/Ham shops near Lexington area?
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If you can catch him, Mike at Triad Electronic Supply or whatever it’s called in Winston-Salem is very popular among local radio enthusiasts. Otherwise. HRO, DxEngineering, etc.
 
Button Pusher said:
You mean 1,000 Bird Watts?
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Or 650 watt Fatboys, if you don't feel like messing with pills yet?
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