Recent content by TheSpaceMan

If the manufacturers started making cheap CB Walkie Talkies like the ones they made in the '60s and '70s, kids would rediscover the CB experience, along with the local chatter and the skip! Those old Walkies with their regenerative receivers, could hear just about everything! Lots of kids with...

The HR 2510 is basically a 10 meter HAM radio, with the CB frequencies "included". The HR 2510 was actually reviewed in the Ham radio magazine QST, which is published by the American Radio Relay League. They are excellent on SSB and for freebanding, and can be modified for very loud AM. All...

Awesome. That Archer 21-901 Ground Plane was the exact antenna that I was thinking about! Interestingly, in the picture it appears that the radials go straight out and are not sloping downward like most ground planes! (The old Lafayette CB ground plane had sloping radials). Perhaps the fact...

Thanks! Very helpful! :)

I'm looking to build a 1/4 wave 11 meter CB Ground Plane antenna, like the one Radio Shack used to sell. Does anyone have the dimensions for the radiator and radial lengths? Thanks!

We are all trying to figure out what has caused the decline of CB (as well as ham) over the last several years, when the answer is OBVIOUS! The new generation of kids can not HEAR US!!! Kids have computers in every school and at home, and have family and friends who all have cell phones and...