Never leave home without it
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Originally Posted by Lunja
While we're here, I'd like to ask a couple of questions about CB's. Me, my girlfriend, and two friends are going to do a trip down from Vancouver, into Utah, through AZ, into CA and along the West Coast highway back into Canada, in early September. We will be working in Canada for 2+ months and will buy a cell phone for emergencies, but we understand that there will be large parts of the trip (especially through UT, AZ and NV) that will have little or no cell reception, so we were thinking of getting a CB.
Welcome to the Forum! This is considerably less true than it used to. With rare exceptions, just about all major roads in the west have some degree of cell coverage these days. While it true that you can find huge chunks of territory without much reception I am continously amazed where I do find coverage. Yesterday I was about 60 miles from any paved highway in southern Nevada and I had perfect cell coverage. CB radios can play a vital role in emergency communications and I recommend them -- in fact I rarely go anywhere without one on-board. Here is an overview to CB radios I wrote a few months ago --
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Now, we've seen Midland handheld models for around $60(US) on Amazon.com, so do you thin this will suit us? Also, are there any channels which are used for specific purposes? I've heard that channel 9 is used for emergencies, but is this correct?
Personally I am not fond of the smaller units, but many posters on this board like to use them. Most drivers monitor Channel 19 for highway use and Channel 9 is the official emergency channel.
Mark
