A great place to find old CB gear is at swap places, garage sale type stores. (Obviously on line now too.) There used to be many designs of home "base stations"

A great place to find old CB gear is at swap places, garage sale type stores. (Obviously on line now too.) There used to be many designs of home "base stations", otherwise you would need to adapt an in car model. Continue with frettchen's good comment; with a car CB, you would need a 12v transformer (power supply). Then find metal siding or roofing, to make a ground plane, but of course, there are base station antennas. If you go to a truck stop on an interstate highway, they usually have cool selections of gear. You could try a handheld, at a truck stop or radio shack, the limitation is the crappy antennas. Range is really poor on those, but at least it gets you going.(about 500 meters?) CBs are a lot of fun on the highway for long road trips. By the way, some people in the off road, forestry, oil field industries say CB, but actually mean VHF/UHF radios.