Longest Skip on Lowest Power?

[Fisherman100]

Hi everybody,

I'm on the air since a month and with my Cobra 148 GTl and my Antron 99 antenna, I had contacts with Alabama and Georgia.

Only 4 watts and about 1200 miles....

I'm located in the North West of Quebec, 300 hundred miles (by plane) from Montreal.

I think it's not too bad.

[Fisherman100]

Hi everybody,

I'm on the air since a month and with my Cobra 148 GTl and my Antron 99 antenna, I had contacts with Alabama and Georgia on CB and SSB.

Only 4 watts and about 1200 miles....

I'm located in the North West of Quebec, 300 hundred miles (by plane) from Montreal.

I think it's not too bad.

[BobCB]

I can make good contacts with PA, NY, NC, SC, TX, and MI on 17 watts of power on a peaked out Kraco running to an A99 at 15 feet when conditions are good. My elevation here is right at 1000ft above sea level.

[jessejamesdallas]

Probably back around 2005 or so, talked from Dallas to the Dock of the Bay (San Fransisco CA.) to 4040 on my Galaxy 93t barefoot...Mobile to mobile...First made contact with 4040 running my 8-pill, but then turned it off, and was still able to talk...Think we may have been on 26.915...but could have been on 28.

[443 Arizona]

during this solar flare (august 4-6) , so far i have noticed an elevated level of smooth static but am also hearing sporadic signals from what seems to be kids on walkie talkers and also some foreign language motormouth,,, but all from propagational wave because it fades out as fast as it faded in.
my big antenna is sensitive. :r&r: helps pull in signals.... cant say enough about the advantages of a big ear.

[Fisherman100]

Yesterday night,

In the North west of Quebec I had a contact with Jamaica.

With my Cobra on channel 38 on SSB. Barefoot radio.

About 1800 miles . I didn't believe it. He was loud and clear.

Strangely, for about two hours yesterday between 8h PM and 10h PM, the skip on every channel was from Mexico. Nothing from USA.

Strange....I tried contact with Mexican people on CB, pero nada.

My longest skip so far.

[hawkeye4149]

Central PA to SW Texas on 1+/-watt walkie. This was back in the 70s when solar activity was peakin'.

As the current solar cycle continues, we (east coasters) may soon have ideal conditions to talk across the pond without much effort or power.

73s
Hawkeye 'round the stone

[231]

We used to love messin' with people on low power. We'd turn the beam back and forth to mirror QSB conditions and have it. So allot of you guys who "think" you hit the conditions, maybe you didnt'?

I think the lowest power I've talked DX on was a mag mount and stock radio AM back in the late 70's. Obviously conditions were just right. I can't tell you how many times I had the back of the beam toward the DX and power turned WAY back to a few watts PEP only to have someone in DX land ask me where I was. Not sure if it was ever long/short path, and didn't care. I was usually trying to talk to the guy down the road a couple miles. It was bad, could talk across the country but couldn't hardly talk across the street.

[420Snowman]

I have had that situation too 231, cant talk to my local buddy thats 5 miles away, but at the same time I have Soldier Boy in NY hollering that I am pluggin his ears!! Strange the way things work.....

Snowman

[kurtis1971]

i was talking to my brother in victoria bc in 2003 from my 1979 f150 it had an old kraco cb pushin 3 watts and cophased 102 inch whips i was on top of a mountain outside of johnstown pa

[woodchuck]

I talked to a guy in Hawaii on my barefoot uniden 19 with a firestick mirror antenna

[556]

From south central VA to Mt. Rainier Washington on a barefoot Robyn T-240D "Yellow Monster" with an Antron 99. Talked to 454.

[Circuit Breaker]

The longest "low power" skip I've ever worked? San Diego, CA to Sydney, Australia on a stock Cobra 148GTL in to a Big Stick antenna. San Diego, CA to Perth, Australia on an HR2510 into a Wilson 1000 sitting in my car. The 2510 was stock except for the 11M modification. Then I had a contact mobile from 29 Palms, CA to England while mobile on a 2510 into a 102" fiberglass whip.

[Spyder]

Personal best was San Juan, Puerto Rico,1989, using a stock Cobra 142 GTL,D-104 Mic,50 Watt Modulator,through a Starduster, from the Pgh,Pa. area..(Florence,Pa.) on Ch.35 AM,Talked with this fellow about 1 hour with no problem until the conditions were gone.....wish I still had that radio!

[sparky17]

Repeatedly doing Oregon -> Georgia area in the past week.
Barefoot to Virginia in my mobile with a 102" this week... He called me a mud duck tho..

[Radio 75]

Just worked TI8II in Costa Rica with right around 35 watts USB on ten meters in the mobile in my driveway.
I was just doing an antenna test and came across him calling CQ.
Back in '87 and '88 you could literally work the world on ten meters with 5 watts and a wet shoestring for an antenna.
OK, I am exagerating, but man when ten is rolling.....

[tubehead]

just did miami fl to nova scotia canada on my barefoot SBE console 5 base. thats a 1500 mile haul!

[A NUMBER 1]

Its been a very long time for real good skip with just 4 watts AM /12 W SSB ,in 1979-1980 I worked the world everyday,it was just fantastic,I haven't seen a solar cycle that good since then,most CB radios then working skip were just 4W /12W AM/SSB radios,I had a 1 tube 6LQ6 with about 100W but hardly ever used it,nowadys most everbody has boxes,I still like low power DX,more of a challenge than throwing out 500-1,000W ,at least to me anyway,I picked up a Madison,doing about 3 /12 W,never been touched,I get a kick out of working Dx with those kinds of radios.
A NUMBER 1

[breakdown]

Had a rci 2950dx was in michigan and talked to florida on 6 watts in my big truck.Thats the best I have done on low power

[genesbro]

All I ever use is my cobra 148gtl and it has talked to europe and down under. Did europe using stacked 3s and down under from San Diego in the car with 102 whip. Don't see any need for power to shoot skip.

[genesbro]

I just got a Magnum 1012 AM/SSB hand held on 01-25-11 and talked to Texas last night of course it was hooked up to my I-Max 2000 on 37 LSB

That is a cool contact!!

[ksphotoguy]

Does contact from my western Kansas station to New Zealand 4169 running barefoot on a grant XL and Jogunn beam count? Just did it !!

[KDDL]

From Norway to Ontario on 12 watt USB. Not bad.

[willyp001]

From Norway to Ontario on 12 watt USB. Not bad.

What channel were you on (frequency)?

[KDDL]

From Norway to Ontario on 12 watt USB. Not bad.

What channel were you on (frequency)?

On 27.565. But it was back in 87. Dec. 87.