Longest Skip on Lowest Power?

[Dusty Roads]

Got a contact back from a station in Rhode Island, Saturday am, March 12th. ..... to Dallas.
Uniden Washington, Cobra power mic, TR7 tweaked to 20 watts PEP, IMAX2000.
99402 in North Carrollton, Tx.

[str8stroke]

Got a contact back from a station in Rhode Island, Saturday am, March 12th. ..... to Dallas.
Uniden Washington, Cobra power mic, TR7 tweaked to 20 watts PEP, IMAX2000.
99402 in North Carrollton, Tx.

Those IMAX seem to do pretty darn well! That was a good contact!

[108dt206]

15 watts mobile..wilson 1000 mobile...scotland--------------white russia..don`t know if its called that now...was about 10 years ago

[al-f]

set up was in south jersey starduster antenna 45 feet high, cobra 142 gtl peaked (about 8 watts on am and 15 on ssb) with a silver eagle d-104...that dang radio would talk almost everywhere ( canada, barbados, jamacia, hawaii, alaska, almost all the lower 48) but ya know anyone who made a contact on that radio logged it never made a pennsylvania or new york contact but could talk over the bay to deleware on any given day

[Slim Pickins]

Back in the early 90's I talked to a guy in Mississippi for about 10 minutes from my friends driveway in Nova Scotia on his father's Realistic handheld with the factory extendable antenna. We thought that was the coolest thing ever

[Pistol_Pete]

That is a long trip on a handheld!

[maters]

Last Thursday, 148gtl, no power. Hit Northern CA, Mexico, Arizona and the Caribbean. SSB.

[Fatman0247]

i made contact with 527- Jamaica with 2 watts of power on my Superstar, i was very surprised, so was my friend 541 across town lol

[str8stroke]

Fatman, Be careful with those "Jamaica" contacts. I have found a few pranksters who like to use the "Jamaica" Moniker. Also the "Austrailia" (which I am guilty of doing too) ehehehe

[Eskimo_Pie]

Last friday Portsmith NH to Kingston Jamaica, and tonight SE Coastal Maine to Port Charlotte FLA and West Palm Beach FLA all on a bone stock Cobra 140 GTL with a Wilson 500 mag mount. Heard alot of west coast out there after sunset (about 8 eastern time), then conditions hit the basement and I couldn't pull them in anymore.

971 Coastal Maine Mobile is my call.
-Greg

[305]

Southern California to Australia on a bone stock 20 watt President Lincoln and Antron 99.

[hilltop 439]

Made it to Northen Italy on 27.3900 Mhz using 5 watts running into a Maco 103c a three element beam.

[HomerBB]

Making regular contacts to East coast of Australia from NW Arkansas with 5 watts DK and 40 watts PEP. My best to them this April using 4 element beam and a DK of 50 watts and 175 PEP to west Coast Australia over 10,600 miles. All of these on sideband.

[Don1962]

The fartherest I've ever talked on a barefoot rig, and the most memiorable was to a ship off the coast of Vietnam.
The QSO only lasted for a little while, but it was memiorable! At the time I was running an antron up about 30-40 ft and a peak and tuned Craig base station, putting out about 20 watts pep.. I was on 38 lsb it was appox 07-0800 one Sunday morning. And I live in downtown Topeka, Ks, a real hole in the ground, hills all around, can't even see the horizon!!

[magnum450]

I worked a station that was 100 miles north east of Montreal Canada today on my mobile rig. I live in the center of West Virginia. My mobile rig is a texas ranger tr-396fc tuned and peaked by me and my anteena is 108" stainless whip,no amp. The frequency was 26.935mhz. My radio dead keys six watts swings to about 18 pep,swr is 1.2 between 26.735 to 27.965. that 108" whip sure is broad banded. There is no spring on my whip. All you need is a big old anteena!

[tattoo25]

I talked from central alabama to texas to a couple of cats a few weeks ago on a barefoot president hr2510 that will only swing 8 watts. I have a box but couldnt run it b/c the neighbors. Have to wait till after 9pm to fire it up.

[Ca Hoss]

Friday evening July 8th around 9:00 after the install of a new 108” whip on the jeep.
Galaxy dx959 Barefoot. Central valley California to North Eastern Washington
Right up by the Canadian border. The kind soul on the other end said” I can hear you but it’s a little weak”. Conditions were very good and so was his antenna on RX.
I was the blind squirrel and that QSO was the nut. Thanks for making my day.

Hoss

[Werner89509]

I have shot skip a number of times since I got hooked on CB radios at around the same time ol' C. W. McCall was ruling radio airplay with that "Convoy" song of his..The last time was very memorable, since I was briefly talking to a chap who said he was shooting back to me from...Australia! And being a tad skeptical, I kept this bit of info to myself..as I was just rolling along the Interstate in a 379 Pete using a Galaxy 959 radio with a modulator kit and a Road King 56 mic connected by 18' of coax to a Wilson 5000 Trucker antenna..So, contrary to popular belief, it can be done!

[kingsnake544]

crato brazil from rochester ny on 50 watts pep also london from rochester ny in the mobile ssb early morning here 35w pep

[De_Wildfire]

Today, I shot skip from the east coast to Texas running 12 watts. Was running a TRAMD64 mobile on elcheapo radio shack power supply with a D104 on 39LSB.

[Flapjack]

My son talked from Central Texas to Hawaii, and Puerto Rico on a five foot FireStik and with 3.8 watts. Listen for him. Silverado 996. When conditions are right they are right.

[str8stroke]

Flap thats a good one for sure. I had a few of my posts deleted with the crash. I made a few good ones on my golf cart. It has a peaked & tuned cobra, cheapo coax, used wilso 4 footer and 51 Va has a gate of me on it. I was impressed. Not sure DX Land. Believed me. Ha!

[Flapjack]

Flap thats a good one for sure. I had a few of my posts deleted with the crash. I made a few good ones on my golf cart. It has a peaked & tuned cobra, cheapo coax, used wilso 4 footer and 51 Va has a gate of me on it. I was impressed. Not sure DX Land. Believed me. Ha!

Like it has been said. "When conditions are right they are right."

[wi 544]

finally got to try out the uniden 980ssb, wilson 1000, in my chevy equinox. radio is un touched and does 12watts ssb. had no problem talking with british columbia canada, florida and california 37,38,39Lsb

[FarmeroBrown]

In '90, I used to talk to a mobil in Northern Cal from SW Arkansas with a di pole about 10' and a 2 tube mobil amp doing 50 amps.
About the same time my son talked to the World Down Under on a bare foot Sears Road Talker SSB and di pole.