what's the best CB?

 

With my CB, I seem to get good reception only in line-of-sight.

Maybe his fiance could have used the phone #s when she got back and given people the GPS coordinates?

 

hehehehehhe Now you know what it's like to wheel with some people.

...and we weren't gone even a minute and we only went around the corner 99% of the time I would NEVER leave anyone behind. The exception is drunks and @sses and we generally try to weed those out early on.

 

I thought CBs were for truckers so they had good reception long-distance ... ?

yeah, she could've used the numbers, but I don't have a GPS ... I would've just gone and yelled for him

 

All the trucker conversation I've picked up was when they were driving next to each other (I think, they were speaking Spanish). I have picked up further points but I think they were non-portable home units with stronger signals.

Then again, parts of where I drive through are a bit hilly and that blocks the signal pretty well... my house is on a hill with the west opening up between the houses and trees. You can see some of the construction going on a freeway and I once heard someone asking for turnout instructions and I know for a fact that they were 10-15 miles away.

Open line of sight though...

EDIT:
I did use my CB coming back from Pismo last year to let whoever was listening know that there were 3 CHP on the side of the road waiting, I didn't see the guy who answered but the road stretched on straight and we drove past him 10 minutes later.

Maybe it's not a line of sight thing? I'm not sure.

 

I really like my Cobra 75.. small and easy to use

 

second the cobra 75 .. small and compact

 

Yes I agree weed the weeds out before you even ask them to come wheeling. If you have even a slight clue that one of the weeds like to drink a cold beer while climbing in their rig say "screw them". I took my club up wheeling in the snow last Jan. and we met up with buddies of some of my club members in Sammy's. Each and every one of them had beer in hand and were trying to figure out how to get a Sammy with a busted D shaft off a heavily traveled climb. I was pissed cuz I wanted to hit that trail but there just standing there looking like @sses. Beer & trails do not mix.

 

ha same thing happened to me in a huge intersection. i hadnt driven my old car for a month and was driving it around when it suddenly stopped in the middle of a huge street. after talking with thecops i poped the hood before a tow truck came and when i reversed my isr mod the ring around one of the boxes snapped and it popped out. easy fix but was not cool

 

Beer & trails do not mix

That's kinda why I quit the local club last year I was in. I got to a event they were holding people were mudding thier trucks some were so drunk they couldn't stand I had my kids in the truck I didn't dare to take them out worried one of these drunk asses would run them over.
Anyways that was the last draw and the dumb drunk ass that ran over my tow strap and almost rear ended me after I pulled him out of the mud. Then he proceded to drive home.
After that incident I didn't go back to the club meetings anymore.

I can drink with the best of them but I do it when I get to camp not on the trail.

Anyways as far as people getting left behind
I'll tell ya I was wheeling at Paragon AP in Jul 2003 when I had a nissan truck we were a group of 3 nissans we came accross two dudes in a toyota extended cab at the bottom of a steep hill. It was thier first time there they got stuck and thier group (jeeps in a club no less) left them there. Someone came along with a winch and assisted them off the obsticle after that they were attempting to climb this big steep loose packed hill. Well none of us made it up without assistance except a nissan frontier in our group that had a air locker so the guy with the frontier strapped us each halfway up the hill. After that we told the guys in the toyota they were welcome to join up and wheel with us so they did.

 

934rnr did you used to have a lifted pathfinder with light on the rack? If so do you remember me from the nissan board?

 

Its always nice to have a group of people like here. Sadly, a good majority of people who wheel could care less about others. Like what happend to me recently. A new park opened here in Illinois, and when it was still in planning stages they asked for help cutting trails. For 2 months i was out there every weekend but 1 working. No pay, just voluteer work. the week before it was going to open, a local jeep club was called out to give it a pre run. I went out with them with the toy, it was only the 2nd time i had gotten to hit the trails that I HAD CUT. About 3/4 of the way through i broke a leaf spring (i have a bad habit of that dont I?). What happend? Everyone just left me there. I got turned arround when sombody stopped to lend a hand. It was one of the guys who had been out there every weekend, just like me. We got back alright and i just rode with him the rest of the day. I tore a brake line off on the way back, but i still drove. Everyone else just blew off the Toyota and wheeled. They knew i had been out there cutting the trails they were wheeling on for free, they didnt care.

Having phone numbers is a big plus for times like your situation. I know 2 people who have me entered in their phone under "911".

 

My cell phone works fine out on these trails, I just don't know anyone with a 4x4. I've been out to this place (360) tons of times and the people that are out there always give me a look. Like, what is he doing out here, shouldn't he be at the mall or something? What these yokles fail to realize is that our 4runners are quite capable. One day I was out on the trails and ran into a group of guys. Two jeeps, one Dakota with lift and lots of other stuff, a Bronco and some other random truck. They were all climbing this big hill. All had to get winched up. I thought I would try it. My truck was stock at the time and I killed that hill, no problems. Anyway, 4Route has been kind enough to give me her number in an emergency and hopefully we can get more people together in Texas.

 

at least your ok and your rig is fine , but i dont think i could leave anyone alone stranded in the middle of the night. at least the jeeps could have called some help for you, and you future mother in law, i would feel akward after this situation

what goes around comes around

 

I would say "never wheel alone!" But you weren't alone, you were left... huge difference. Those guys should be ashamed man. I haven't left anybody on the trail, ever. And I haven't been left either.
My bro-in-law called me late on a wednesday evening once from Big Bear of all places stranded like 15 miles from nowhere in a snow storm and no one even bothered to help him. Well I got there w/ some other friends and went and yanked him back up the side of a hill and got him home, that was repayed shortly after that when I got stuck out in the desert.

 

This one? If so yes that's me.
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