What I like about the CB holds true even from the time of its inception. You actually don't have to have any power. You can talk over a 5K station with 2 watts........if your antenna is higher. When I lived in Macon, I had an Antron 99 about 200' in a pine tree on very high ground. I could key down on Plug Nickle and he had a single tube Black Cat 5K amp. People in South Macon could still hear him, though. May he RIP. I can remember bein over there when he was runnin that thing in the dead of winter and we were wipin sweat off from the heat that thing put off. The tube in it was probablt 6" tall and 8" in diameter. He could shut South Macon down when he wanted to. I like the old small single tube modulators. I had a Black Cat JB12 years ago that dead keyed 1/2 a watt and swung 80. That was a talkin little unit.