Cobra HHRT50 Road Trip CB Radio - 2-Way Handheld Emergency Radio with Access to Full 40 Channels & NOAA Alerts, Rooftop Magnet Mount Antenna and Omni-Directional Microphone, Black, 6.3" x 2" x 1.75" HHRT50 Road Trip Handheld CB Radio

Great to have as a back up in emerganies..

Brought it for someone else they say its a good thing

Not much range on this radio and the magnetic antenna comes off easily in a car wash.

I purchased this for a few reasons. I'm into radio, HAM, GMRS, SW, SDR and more. On a radio forum I am on, lot of people were talking about CB making a comeback. In fact it's been a longtime ongoing conversation and how it is making a comeback. I was on CB from about 1972 to the mid 1980's. I purchased this and a Uniden Pro401. I also purchased a Francis Hot Rod CB26 antenna, a better mount and set everything up properly on my truck. I used this and the Uniden on a 4000 mile round trip from Tennessee to Arizona. At home I have kept it plugged in and on and with one radio scanning and one radio on these were the results during the 4000+ mile round trip. I heard exactly one trucker and two women talk on the CB. The trucker long enough to get directions from a truck stop and two women who only made contact so one could let the other know to call her on her cell. And of course the illegal high power broadcasters out of Nevada that override everything on some channels (23). People on GMRS were broadcasting constantly to the point I had to turn off my GMRS radio. Unfortunately it appears Citizen Band is not making a comeback, from my experience, this radio is called a Road Trip and that is what I used it for, a 4000 mile road trip. If my experience is any indication whatsoever, no, CB is not making a comeback. The Airwaves are dead. As far as the radio itself, it is a good radio, solidly built, with batteries in has a nice weight to it, plenty of options and the weather channels work well although I can do the same real time weather on my Digital trunking Scanner or Cell phone. The radio itself gets five stars, the CB airwaves get zero because almost nobody is on it. Edit: We just had a major winter storm and received more snow and ice than we have in over three decades. The one day snowfall hasn't seen this accumulation since 1993. We are in the hills and mountains with a lot of trucks coming this direction to get to Knoxville, Chattanooga and further on up to Nashville. Listening to my scanners everything is extremely active with one emergency call after another around the clock. Thought I might turn on this CB to see if Channel 9 is active. Channel 9 (The emergency channel) is extremely active. We have had multiple jackknifed trucks, one rollover and one went off the mountain into the trees. Truckers are using Channel 9 like I have never heard it. We are in the mountains, everything is snow and ice and this is what they call, for us, a once every 25 year storm. so no one expected the conditions to be this bad and off the main highways nothing gets cleared, it has to melt, because we don't budget for storms that only happen once every 20-30 years. so yes the CB is being used heavily to get help on Channel 9. For normal day to day use, the airwaves are dead. But now, under extreme weather conditions, the truckers are definitely using it and so are some of the people stuck in their homes up on the mountain and plateau.

The media could not be loaded. This unit works great right out of the box. Paid $77 in April 2023 for the unit without the magnet mount antenna. I really like there are 10 weather channels, I pick up 2 of them in NE Atlanta, GA. The scan feature works really great in conjunction with the adjustable squelch. It takes 9 AA batteries or use the included 12v adapter. It also has a nifty button that lets you cycle between Ch 9, 19 and back to all channels. The backlight is pleasing to the eye, and there is a side light button that lets you engage the light after it cycles off. Lots of odd negative reviews written by people claiming they wasted their money on a dead on arrival unit, but Amazon offers free returns on this so what are they crying about ? I have an external magnetic mount full whip antenna that with an adapter really hauls in CB’s from far away, but when I’m on trips I prefer using the included rubber ducky antenna to listen in on truckers I know are in my immediate vicinity. The portability of this thing is great and I can’t reiterate enough how incredible the NOAA weather radio is. What’s also strange to me is the stripped down version of this without the radio scan feature and without the NOAA weather radio is sold at LOVE’s truck stops for $69. Why would anyone want that version ? Why doesn’t LOVE’s carry this version ? This is a real winner for the price and portability and truthfully I’d pay the $77 just to have the NOAA feature only, the fact I also get a functional 40 channel CB with the ability to transmit at 4 watts is unreal.