CB radio

[Jordie Barretts sock]

Is it still a thing? Or pretty much confined to farmers and greenlaners now?

Virtually every truck used to have a CB aerial once upon a time not that long ago.

[sherman]

Saw a car with 3 12ft whippy ariels yesterday. It looked so retro.

[normalbloke]

Also known as Tourette’s FM.

[Upinflames]

I had a bit of a nostalgic fit about a year ago and put one in the workshop with a pretty bit antenna on the roof. Bigger than you'd have in a car.

There's virtually nobody on it, I gave up after a few months having it scanning, it was FM / AM / SSB, I live right by a busy trunk road too.

[reddiesel]

Upinflames said:

I had a bit of a nostalgic fit about a year ago and put one in the workshop with a pretty bit antenna on the roof. Bigger than you'd have in a car.

There's virtually nobody on it, I gave up after a few months having it scanning, it was FM / AM / SSB, I live right by a busy trunk road too.

I have this mental picture of you sat there night after night with your cb phrase book trying to drum up some company only to find everyone has moved on . Hilarious 😆

[White-Noise]

It is still a thing. A friend of mine is touring Europe in a motorhome and met a French guy who had a setup with him and used it. I saw photos of this guys house and he had some monster aerial on it. As you say though I don't think it is anything like it used to be. You never know we might get an uptick with ww3

[sherman]

The reason theres virtually no one on it anyomore is that all the Emergency services moved over to a digital radio network so you cant listen to police etc.

[ferret50]

'Hi there rubber duck, there's a seat cover waiting for you at the next crossing'......

[Decky_Q]

Older truckers in work have them, I dont know who they talk to but probably 20% of the HGVs I work on have them fitted (truckers also fit non functional AC units on the roof hatch and roo bars for supermarket deliveries so CB might be for show).

In Poland they are very popular, usually warning each other of police checkpoints, accidents on routes etc, but I imagine Waze or similar will take that over too.