If you had been around inside the mid-70′s in the United States you’d must have been living under a rock not to know about the excellent citizen band radio craze made popular by the smash hit “Convoy” by C.W. McCall. In case you were into citizen band radio at all you knew that there was a certain prestige to having specific kinds of antennas, specifically if you had a CB setup within your residence.
For your cell units, the ones that had been installed in your motor vehicle, the antennas have been rather easy and comparatively weak. They could only send and receive a short distance depending about the time of day. Inside the afternoon, cell CB antennas were lucky to achieve several miles, especially throughout sun spot time. At night, should you have been lucky you could reach about 10 to 20 miles, maybe occasionally a little much more. [click to continue…]
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