CB Radios! (1 Viewer)

[WildHorse]

Hi,
Do many motorhomers have CB radios???
Are they useful especially when travelling through Europe????
Can it be a good way of hooking up with other like minded travellers whilst on the road????

We are considering fitting one, would we be wasting our time????

 

[WildHorse]

I see its been covered, but any additional info, experience would be useful
has anyone been surprised to find many responses when putting a call out whilst in any parts of Europe??? could this be useful in the event of a breakdown or other issue arising???
I am thinking perhaps translating with the police if stopped for some reason would be very useful.

Thanks

 

[pappajohn]

Mobile phones and social media killed citizen band radio.
Some members still use them, good for a few running in convoy, but I reckon there are too many brain dead, button pressing idiots out there to make it worthwhile.

 

[WildHorse]

I hear you pappajohn Still many places including within the UK where neither mobile or tinternet work very well and what would we do should we get hit with a solar CME

 

[bigalw35]

I too keep contemplating getting another cb, had cb's back in the 70's, very handy and good fun. Apparently according to a mate there's very few people using them, as mentioned earlier, but they are quite cheap now, and generally are UK/Europe compliant, and NO licence required, should I, shouldn't I, that is the question ?

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[tonka]

Go to search bar... Type in CB radio and you will find the subject has been done on here several times..
A few do have it but only a few... The idea of a "motorhome channel" gets raised every so often and then dies a death..

The glory days of CB are gone...

LOL.. What IS my wife wearing in that picture and whats going on with that hairstyle..

 

[mid4did]

Not worth the effort ,in my opinion.good fun to be able to work the skip back to the uk but never found any other uk cb'ers locally even back in the 80,s Get more fun chilling with a cold beer

 

[Northernraider]

I used to love playing cb fox and hounds in the early nineties they were still popular round my way.... Never see anyone with them nowadays though