This is true.Cheap CB with good antenna with a dang good ground plane, on top of a hill/mountain and you can talk 100 miles in any direction. Add a better radio, Add power. You get more range
Relying on repeaters in SHTF? Not me
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This is true.Cheap CB with good antenna with a dang good ground plane, on top of a hill/mountain and you can talk 100 miles in any direction. Add a better radio, Add power. You get more range
Relying on repeaters in SHTF? Not me
Agreed, I ran a Wilson 5,000 for several years, simple magnetic base and got great SWR readings (I believe around 1.4 or 1.5.I eventually went to a PREDATOR bottom load coil antenna..looked awesome, but didn't get me anymore performance than the WILSON 5,000.In the video at the beginning of this thread you can see that CB performed very well compared to the other radios and those were horrible antenna installations on the jeeps. No ground plane under the antennas and mounted so low that the SWRs have to be extremely high. Those antennas were basically unidirectional and reflecting back into the radio. No bueno
A cheap magnetic antenna on the roof of a car or truck would be FAR better than what they were testing.
Jeeps don't have a good location for an antenna, fiberglass tops.
My Dads wife used to drive the truckers crazy with her antics on the CB.
Her handle was “moon baby”...lol.