What's the best CB?

[Bloders]

Thought most are FM? probably showing my ignorance now.
To me, its a minefield

 

[Ali]

Phones don't work here and we have hill ground and parks. Thinking about cb for pick up, disco and tractor so that if anyone is out and ends up in nother they can get a hold of someone.
What would be the range and are they easy to fit

 

[Bobthebuilder]

On a good day we can get 20miles but more likely 10/12 no problem, simple enough to fit just need to make sure arial has a good earth and better to be as close to centre of vehicle as possible

 

[Diatu]

I use the ICOM ICB-1050. A robust little thing that has never let me down.

 

[Will 1594]

Any thing with a cybernet board Rotel , harrier , York. You need good earth or steel plate on roof for good ground plane

 

[Strawgalore]

Rotel 240 was the one to have back in my day ,

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Sorry to hijack this thread but I've these to get rid of if of interest to anyone .

 

[Robt]

I have a tti ccb in my disco, set of wellies, 3ft aerial and a good ground plane disc. Can reach nearly 15 miles easy.... the wellies are old so I’d guess they are highly illegal

 

[Farma Parma]

Any thing with a cybernet board Rotel , harrier , York. You need good earth or steel plate on roof for good ground plane

got them all.
Quite a collection i have acquired over the years...
Use them smaller Cybernet 2000 models in all my tractors except the Binatone 5star in the classic massey... just looks right in there.
Got a Tidy Rotel 240 & Cybernet Beta 3000 in the collection.
Amstrad 901, Harvard 420M & and a few more which shall remain hidden...
Not to mention a Rather heavily modded Ham Jumbo Homebase.
even have Amateur Radio Callsign & some of the Dual band/Multiband gear & its miles n miles better than any CBs ever were.
144mhz & 440mhz so much clearer & noise free compared to 27mhz

 

[Farma Parma]

got one of these in the shack... what a radio
does CB frequencies & a shed load more...

 

[Farma Parma]

got one of these in the shack... what a radio
does CB frequencies & a shed load more...

you may see the mic wire on the right yes its a standard LAN Ethernet type plug/skt
alot of that gear uses that & it works really well.
you can remove the front panel & hide the bulky radio gutts away & everything plugs into the panel it has mounting brackets & a stand.
years ahead of anything CB related. ive had it oh heck probs 14years now

 

[Farma Parma]

Back to the original post
Yeah anything cybernet board based or the midlands from the early 80's
you cant really go wrong.
what lets most CBs down is modern Tractors electronics causing interference & the Antenna's not being SWR'd in right.
which often isnt an easy task with all the cabs being mostly plastic now.

 

[Farma Parma]

just incase anyone fancys a proper radio
http://www.radioworld.co.uk/second-...MI3OCq59qW1wIVzZPtCh1L1wKhEAYYASABEgIDnPD_BwE

 

[TheTallGuy]

I used to have an Amstrad 901 back in the day. I 'never' swapped the magic resistor, nor did I use a homebrew full wave length antenna both of which would have been in breach of the licence at the time! Oh how I enjoyed DX'ing to the rest of Europe and doing the whole postcard swap thing. Of course that was pre 'tinterweb days...

 

[Hesston4860s]

I used to have an Amstrad 901 back in the day. I 'never' swapped the magic resistor, nor did I use a homebrew full wave length antenna both of which would have been in breach of the licence at the time! Oh how I enjoyed DX'ing to the rest of Europe and doing the whole postcard swap thing. Of course that was pre 'tinterweb days...

Never heard about swapping any resistors on these !, I only know about the dirty mod that put them up to 10 watts !.
I had 3 901’s all made in Japan which where the best ones and all mint, had a Harvard 420m with mid band in it as well as uk 40. Done all the rotels and had all the cybernet boarded stuff.
Still got 2 radiomobile 202’s one also has mid band in it, the other has an adjustable 5 tone roger bleep. Somewhere there’s a Ham International Major another Ham International and also have somewhere a boxed Colt Excalibur base unit.

 

[Bloders]

Just dragging this old thread back to life rather than a new one.
On tractor we have a magnetic antennae (on a metl roof)
IS this ok or should i replace it with a fixed antennae? Do they need to be earthed serpately?

Can anyone recomend a modern CB unit (ie one i can buy now!) for the other tractor

thanks

 

[Massey Ferguson 6480]

Just dragging this old thread back to life rather than a new one.
On tractor we have a magnetic antennae (on a metl roof)
IS this ok or should i replace it with a fixed antennae? Do they need to be earthed serpately?

Can anyone recomend a modern CB unit (ie one i can buy now!) for the other tractor

thanks

Aslong as you have a low swr with the mag mount it will work as well as a fixed one. Thunderpole t-800 seems to be value for money

 

[KB6930]

Just dragging this old thread back to life rather than a new one.
On tractor we have a magnetic antennae (on a metl roof)
IS this ok or should i replace it with a fixed antennae? Do they need to be earthed serpately?

Can anyone recomend a modern CB unit (ie one i can buy now!) for the other tractor

thanks

Mag mount works best for us on JD's which are plastic roof so just on a big bolt onto the cab frame with a 7 inch metal disc.
Née tractors are generally crap tho older JD's up to 2012 ish will get 12 miles on the cb no bother newer R series and fastrac get 2-3 miles at best .

 

[colhonk]

Eeee, brings back memories, in the day 79 / 80 I progressed to a 120 channel rig, sittin up half the night , could get well away from the muppets. happy days.