Let’s talk CB radios
12 volts is what they run on.
The simple Base Stations that you can set up at your home office plug into wall power but like our desktop computers the power source inside turns it back to 12 volts.
Base stations can work off that simple Cobra CB, they just like to use a 36' high antenna to get good distance out of them.
I am getting 15 miles, from my base station to a Mobil unit, need to have enough elevation to grab the base signal and not be down in a hole.
A year ago we did 18 miles (line of sight) Base Station to another Base Station a couple towns away.
The response was from the people receiving my signal: "You are lighting the place up, coming in loud and clear".
Good to have a few radios up and running too for basic communications, just in case the SHTF senerio happens to take place. People will freak out when their phones quit working, the internet goes down, and or the power goes out for a long period of time.
12 volt car batteries charged up on hand is a good thing to keep the CBs up and running.
12 volt solar charging cells are a good backup too and portable.
Yeah, they are fun.
The bottom 3 radios here I use as stationary Base Stations with the 36' Pipe mounted antenna off the end of the shop.
Radio on top is a Short wave reciever picks up from all over the US, Over Seas Different Languages , Mexico and Canada with what is called a Long Wire Antenna of 160' running horizontal about 20 yo 30 feet off the ground. Lots of AM that is what travels the farthest.
☆☆☆☆☆
12 volts is what they run on.
The simple Base Stations that you can set up at your home office plug into wall power but like our desktop computers the power source inside turns it back to 12 volts.
Base stations can work off that simple Cobra CB, they just like to use a 36' high antenna to get good distance out of them.
I am getting 15 miles, from my base station to a Mobil unit, need to have enough elevation to grab the base signal and not be down in a hole.
A year ago we did 18 miles (line of sight) Base Station to another Base Station a couple towns away.
The response was from the people receiving my signal: "You are lighting the place up, coming in loud and clear".
Good to have a few radios up and running too for basic communications, just in case the SHTF senerio happens to take place. People will freak out when their phones quit working, the internet goes down, and or the power goes out for a long period of time.
12 volt car batteries charged up on hand is a good thing to keep the CBs up and running.
12 volt solar charging cells are a good backup too and portable.
Yeah, they are fun.
The bottom 3 radios here I use as stationary Base Stations with the 36' Pipe mounted antenna off the end of the shop.
Radio on top is a Short wave reciever picks up from all over the US, Over Seas Different Languages , Mexico and Canada with what is called a Long Wire Antenna of 160' running horizontal about 20 yo 30 feet off the ground. Lots of AM that is what travels the farthest.
☆☆☆☆☆
