CB Radio Antenna

[V6Maniac]

Ok, everyone in my car club is getting CB Radios for our cars so we can all keep in contact when were out driving. I'm not sure if anyone here has any real experience with CB Radios or not but most all of the antennas are like 4 feet long whip antennas and are ugly as hell. Are there any smaller antennas that I could get that would be small like the stock antenna or possibly one like those XM antennas?

[Camaro3.8L]

Well my friend's got a 95 camaro, and he just bought a Harada power antenna off of ebay. It replaces your stock antenna, and has the obvious fm/am AND CB band on it so you could hook it up to your cb radio. He got it for $12 shipped, it was a dutch auction, and I dont think that price can be beat. Check to see if there are anymore for sale, search for tri-band power antenna, or cb power antenna, etc. Hope this helps.

[southern94]

oh really i was thinking of doing this also i might check into it where are you mounting em?

[V6Maniac]

I took off my antenna and put a little black plastic cover over the peg where it used to be. I really didn't like my stock antenna so I just unscrewed it. I plan on mounting my CB antenna right where the stock antenna was. I wanna put the actually CB radio where the tape holder slot is now. I don't really understand why they put that there since I have the bose cd player :rolleyes: I've been doing some searching and found some cell phone-like antennas but they don't have anywhere near the range the other CB antennas do. I may just make the sacrifice of range for looks ;)

[Camaro3.8L]

If you were talking about where the Harada antenna mounts, it replaces your stock one, so you mount it in the same place.

[Domestic Violence]

it would be cheaper and much cleaner for each of you to buy the same type of walkie talkie. then you could just keep it in the glove box. plus, citizens band radio pretty much allows anyone with a more powerful system to walk all over you. walkie talkies are short range so you get quite a bit more clarity and usually up to a mile with the good ones.

[DavidMc]

I second the suggestion of the walkie talkies. You can usually get a good deal on a set and would make more sense to me than a CB. Some of my friends and I played around with CB's years ago and depeneding on where you were in the city and what channel, you were lucky to get a signal out. Nothing beats listening to a trucker singing country music on a channel for no other reason but because he can. Those guys usually have powerful systems and will walk all over yours. My 2 cents

David

[MTMike]

I too have been thinking of putting a CB Radio in my car (and in my truck for that matter). There's lots of cellular dead zones out here so a CB could come in really handy in an emergency.

I'm interested in that AM/FM/CB antenna on e-bay... i'm looking now and will post a link if I find it.

-Mike

[Everglades W68]

Are CB's making some sort of comeback?

And MTMike, I thought the entire cell phone coverage in Montana consisted of one cell phone tower in the middle of Billings!