Hearkening back to the days of yore...

[Truckman]

I suddenly got the itch for another CB radio...It's been at least 40 years since I was "on the air" but I thought I'd see if anyone still uses them...Any recommendations on brands?...What features to look for, and what I don't need?...Any input helps......Ben

[Honda]

Uniden, Cobra and Midland are all good brands. Most come full featured and they are very inexpensive these days. I live near a major interstate and occasionally listen to the chatter with my old Radio Shack base station that I have had since I was 17.......

[Truckman]

Uniden, Cobra and Midland are all good brands.

Those are the three I was looking at on Amazon...I'll probably get a PA speaker in case I need to annoy anyone...Maybe an extra speaker to mount high in the cab instead of the little tinny-sounding one that I remember coming with the radios...My last one had twin antennas mounted on the outside edges of the truck bed...They seemed to work fine......Ben

[Honda]

Back in my CBing days only the rich kids had cobra's. As far as antenna's as I recall it is really import to get your SWR reading perfect or it diminishes your transmission power.

[Truckman]

This one seems to have decent features, including the SWR meter you mentioned...I'll need to remember to get spring mounts for the fiberglass antennas......Ben

[Honda]

That looks like a nice unit. You might want to consider getting one that will also work as a base in the event you wanted to have it inside.