Some of my 1st CB indoor set-ups were portables. 40 channel CB portables that put out a 3-4W carrier on high power, and dropped down to 2W, and some down to lower than 1W, and use the built-in telescopic whip antenna, powered by a 12VDC - 2AMP power supply. About as plug & play as you can get with CB, and some of those older Radio Shack portables from the 1970's, 80's and 90's, were great units that sounded good and were very versatile. Many had External Antenna and MIC connectors. I've surprised some ops when I've told them that I was on a Realistic TRC-221 portable and have had responses like, "That's a portable?!?! I thought that you were base, or mobile!" Just another way to start out in CB. Location is everything as well. Are you a hilltopper, where a portable can get out +20 miles, or are you down in a gully, (Like me.), were you are lucky to hear 5 miles? I've never lived anywhere totally flat, like the Texas Panhandle, but I've been told that +10 miles is nothing in a location like that. A passing thought on another option to consider, and fairly affordable. Most being sold on ebay are from hunters that used these CB portables to hunt with 30-some years ago, but now use FRS, or MURS.