07-29-2011, 12:19 PM
(07-28-2011, 03:05 PM)yerlocalredneck Wrote: I have a CB radio in my truck, car, and soon to be in my house. however here shortly i am going to radio shack to pick up a cb walkie talkie. still the same 40 channel cb but more compact and with battery power thats rechargeable, and lasts a while. though it might not get perfect range, it will have more range than a gander mountain special set that even tho it says 30 miles only averages about ten. they are about 100 bucks and have weather and all that in them. something like that would not only work for patrol over long distances, but would also be great for communication to HQ and so on. say your scavenge convoy is 11 miles out. just out of range for your walkie talkie... the handheld cb's would allow you to talk clearly a ways past 11 miles. just a thought
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Good luck with that at phoneshack bud. I went there looking for cb equipment and they had 1-2 scanners and everything else is cellphones now.
best place would be amazon.com