A few questions about scanners and cb's

[fuzzi]

First of all, hello! I'm on this site to learn more about scanners and perhaps cb's. I recently bought a uniden bct8 and I'm satisfied with it but the reception can get a bit fuzzy I was wondering what a good antenna i can get (keep in mind i have a small car and not planning to drill holes in the body)

On the other note, I have been interested in cb radios for a little while, after watching Smokey and the Bandit i think, but i'm not on the freeway too often and my scanner picks up no activity on the cb freq. My question is, is it worth buying a cheaper uniden cb and an antenna or is it pretty much for freeway use?

Being a pizza devilry guy I speed around town quite a lot and bought a Cobra XRS 9430 and it worked well, however after about a month in the CA sun i think it got f*cked up somehow because it catches ether nothing or a false alarm for X. I know this because I've driven streetlight at the radar gun with no alerts. Is it possible it got fried or theres something else wrong?

pardon any spelling mistakes

[erickonphoenix]

I've had zero luck using my CB on the freeways. It's mostly in Spanish which I don't speak well enough to understand much of whats said. On the interstate it gets a lot better and the CB can alert you to a lot of problems not just law enforcement issues. So I keep the CB in trunk unless I'm making an interstate run.

As you might have read. Cobra RDs are not very good, and not very well built. I think you might want to look at the Bell 995 as a quality cost effective detector.

[fuzzi]

i was listening to 2 meter hams on my scanner today, how hard is it to get one and do i need a license? They sounded like they were using them in their cars, how much bigger would the antenna have to be?