This is my first post on here, so I'd like to introduce myself and my current setup.
I am now just getting a fire lit to get back into cb's. I'm 25 and live in staten island, NY but originally from the Pine Barrens in South Jersey. I first started using them when I dusted off my dad's old navaho trc-35 back in grade school. With nothing but a coat hanger hanging out the back of the radio I was able to pick up some enthusiasts about 1/2 a mile away. One guy gave me an old 5' whip he had to use instead of a coat hanger and I used to talk to him and his friends on weeknights.
A few years ago I had been working for a place that auctioned off repo and lease cars and had found a bag filled with a cobra 29 ltd st, a barjan talkback speaker, an amp, and just about everything needed to hook it up. For one reason or another I never got around to it and the radio sat in my room.
I had always played around with walkie talkies, shortwave radio, and scanners in the past years. So a few weeks ago my dad wanted to throw away that old navaho and I insisted against it. My friend who had always shared this 'frequency geek' interest with me now has his own place so I took it there and we hooked it up to his aluminum awning with some 12 gauge wire. At the moment we heard the faintest sound of somone talking through the rediculous static, the bug caught us again.
So I dusted off that old cobra 29 and threw that whip on a scanner antenna base I had and tried it out. I could hardly get anything so I started doing research and last week ended up purchasing a uniden pro510xl and a wilson lil wil to throw on my car.
My car is pretty nice and I like to keep it tidy so I couldnt have a bunch of wires sitting on my passenger seat. So I took half of my car apart and cut out the back of my din pocket under my radio and made the cb fit perfectly. Ran the coax under the carpet.
As soon as I was finished tuning in the snow storm I was able to hear skip from North Dakota. I was very impressed. On my way back up to Staten Island this past sunday, I was able to get out and receive very clear about 4-5 miles away.
My swr's are around 1.6 so this weekend im going to hard wire the radio to the accessory plug and try a spring under the antenna as it isnt exactly 2/3 above the roof line. I'm very happy and impressed with my new setup after spending under $100.
Here is a pic of the car
And one of the radio installed.
Im eager to learn more on these forums and hope to get some good info out of them. Would also like to try and make some contacts through this site. There arent too many people in my generation who find this stuff as fascinating as I do.
If you're ever on the NJ turnpike or in the south jersey or nyc area my handle is Evil Twin.
Thanks for reading.
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I am now just getting a fire lit to get back into cb's. I'm 25 and live in staten island, NY but originally from the Pine Barrens in South Jersey. I first started using them when I dusted off my dad's old navaho trc-35 back in grade school. With nothing but a coat hanger hanging out the back of the radio I was able to pick up some enthusiasts about 1/2 a mile away. One guy gave me an old 5' whip he had to use instead of a coat hanger and I used to talk to him and his friends on weeknights.
A few years ago I had been working for a place that auctioned off repo and lease cars and had found a bag filled with a cobra 29 ltd st, a barjan talkback speaker, an amp, and just about everything needed to hook it up. For one reason or another I never got around to it and the radio sat in my room.
I had always played around with walkie talkies, shortwave radio, and scanners in the past years. So a few weeks ago my dad wanted to throw away that old navaho and I insisted against it. My friend who had always shared this 'frequency geek' interest with me now has his own place so I took it there and we hooked it up to his aluminum awning with some 12 gauge wire. At the moment we heard the faintest sound of somone talking through the rediculous static, the bug caught us again.
So I dusted off that old cobra 29 and threw that whip on a scanner antenna base I had and tried it out. I could hardly get anything so I started doing research and last week ended up purchasing a uniden pro510xl and a wilson lil wil to throw on my car.
My car is pretty nice and I like to keep it tidy so I couldnt have a bunch of wires sitting on my passenger seat. So I took half of my car apart and cut out the back of my din pocket under my radio and made the cb fit perfectly. Ran the coax under the carpet.
As soon as I was finished tuning in the snow storm I was able to hear skip from North Dakota. I was very impressed. On my way back up to Staten Island this past sunday, I was able to get out and receive very clear about 4-5 miles away.
My swr's are around 1.6 so this weekend im going to hard wire the radio to the accessory plug and try a spring under the antenna as it isnt exactly 2/3 above the roof line. I'm very happy and impressed with my new setup after spending under $100.
Here is a pic of the car
And one of the radio installed.
Im eager to learn more on these forums and hope to get some good info out of them. Would also like to try and make some contacts through this site. There arent too many people in my generation who find this stuff as fascinating as I do.
If you're ever on the NJ turnpike or in the south jersey or nyc area my handle is Evil Twin.
Thanks for reading.
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