shootin skip

[ccrunner1]

anone else catching CB conversations from around the country today?

 

[Will]

Who's Skip and who and why did they shoot him and why, in particular, do people with CB radios (truckers?) want to talk about him? What did we miss while we were mourning our nation's war dead?

 

[02RangerMan]

Well, at least i know what your talking about. However, i steer clear of those 11meter radios. Any other hams in the crowd?

KC5PKX

 

[snake]

ya, NO5BS (vanity as U might have guessed)


I don't do too much 11 meters (chicken band) but was installing one for a young guy last week- and it was skipping like a big dog when we turned it on and got it all set up.

 

[177CIOfPureLove]

Well, this is pretty newb, but who is skip? lol.

 

[AllanD]

Technically it's called Sporatic-E layer Ionispheric refraction propogation

Radio waves get "Bent" back to earth instead of simply running out
to be heard by LGM in some other solar system.

Normal "skip" for CB in a low intensity e-layer skip is 900-1100miles

More intense skip can shorten that distance to 350-500miles.
Any shorter distance than that, but over 50 miles is due to "Back scatter"

Longer distances which tend to fade in and out on a double periodic cycle
are classic multi-hop "skip"

You think skip is fun on CB you oughta try it on 10meter.


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[wrecking-crew]

my brain hurts

 

[m8r8j]

candyy caneee..............

 

[AllanD]

You do know what LGM are don't you?

Little Green Men

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[Shran]

KC0KBY here.

 

[pocket-rocket]

candyy caneee..............

 

[4LO 4.O]

It was a great weekend for shooting skip, I was talking with guys from Va, all way down to Texas.

OP- what kinda set up you running?

I have a Galaxy DX 959 with a Davemade 4 pill.

308 Ranger got down! and I'm back quite

 

[ccrunner1]

I have the radio shack brand radio. I know its a renamed cobra but im not sure the model. but heres a link to it.
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102604

 

[ccrunner1]

i still dont think i have it tuned right i catch interference from my truck mainly from windshield wipers. but also from the engine when i accelerate.

P.S. its just hardwired to the battery

 

[Capt Jay]

KC0KBY here.

90210 here, I mean OU812 or was it.............OK, I'm done.