How to shoot skip

[CB590]

A few days I talked to someone that said they were in Catskill Mtns NY. May have been you. I'll have to look back and see what I logged in.

I logged a 357..

 

[w9cll]

and about 300 watts

Shame shame shame

 

[S&W357]

I logged a 357..

Hey...looks like we made radio contact! On 5-9-19 I logged in 770 "AL" Catskills NY

 

[Rick330man]

I'm using a barefoot SSB radio (either my Cherokee AH100, my Uniden PC 122 or my TRC 490) and a 1/2 wave Big Stick. Works fine.

 

[Bandit1]

I got to get a better antenna the Lil Wilson on a uniden 980 doesn't shoot skip to good

 

[DXman]

4 years ago (in Oct.) I was talking to a lady on Corsica Island on 27.490 usb. After we were done talking I heard a station from Europe call me, so I replied saying "please qsy down to ".480" and then I asked who was calling me?

Well for the next hour & 20 minutes, stations just kept calling me. So for that hour & 20 min's here is what I did:
worked 36 stations.
7 different countries - all in Europe.
(this was all with a barefoot radio - no amps in line)

This is what I mean by having good communications. Just give your call sign and they will come to you.

Back around 2003, I use to talk to a nice lady in Indonesia. One evening in the winter time we got hooked up on 11 meters and we talked for 1 hour & 10 minutes. She was using a 4 element Yagi with a 75 watt Icom and I was just using the 5 element Yagi with 100 watt rig.
So be polite and try dropping the "waving the hand bit"!

 

[w9cll]

So be polite and try dropping the "waving the hand bit"!

And pray that mother nature is on your side.

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

How much skip could a skip shooter skip if a skip shooter couldn't shoot skip?

 

[Rwb]

How much skip could a skip shooter skip if a skip shooter couldn't shoot skip?

very little maybe sh¡÷

 

[Robert Foster]

Don't laugh. I have been into cb radios for about two years. I have never had that much experince with skip until a couple of months ago I started becoming intrested. Does anyone have any tips on shooting skip?

Use lsb ch 38 or freq 27.383630 for cq or call and request qsy or request other lsb 35,36,37 ,39 ,40 for contact or qso or extended conversation's been this way for hundreds of years it's the only way to make skip tolerable so that USA is not all talking about there radeos on lsb 38.

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

The band is jumping today in Delaware.

 

[Bigboytoy]

Ok what dose DC mean when skip shoots on channel 6 say look at this dc ?

 

[Crawdad]

"How to shoot Skip"

Kinda depends on what Skip did to deserve a round or two, don't it?

 

[secret squirrel]

I don't know anyone named Skip, I prefer not to talk about people I do not know.

 

[Slowmover]

I don't know anyone named Skip, I prefer not to talk about people I do not know.

especially, when having just shot them.