Wayne Lundberg wrote:
I bought my first CB back in 1973 while traveling extensively on the
US roads. Channel 19, as I recall, was the first contact then upon
making a connection, shifted to some other channel. All truckers had
them and it was a piece of cake to get travel information while
rolling on the tar, pedal to the metal.

I will be on the road again between San Diego and San Bernardino,
either I-15 or I-215 and am wondering if it would be worth the money
to get another CB to learn traffic and road conditions in real-time?
Or has everybody gone cellular?

Wayne
www.pueblaprotocol.com

Hi Wayne,

You can still get plenty of info from CB while you travel. It is a good
tool. You will find truckers are very willing to give you info and they are
often on 15 thru 17, as well as 19, at least in Cali. !00 bucks can get you
a servicable radio and Antenna. A Wilson or a K-40 are pretty much
no-brainers as far as antennas go with Cobra, Midland, and Uniden being
commen, reasonably low-cost (AM)radios. If you want to get a bit more
sofisticated, you can pay another 50 bucks and get a sideband radio that
will give you more options but wont really help you any more with your
travel, if that's what you plan on using a radio for. Daytime communication
is rough. You will find 19 might not be usable unless you're within a mile
of another radio. Nightime is much different.

Good luck