FURTHEST LOCAL NON-DX CONTACT?

[bob85]

Furthest i could talk regular on cb with a vertical omni is about 110miles using a Ham Big-Mac on 73ft pole in a field,

but i don't think that's without some help from bending or reflection,
even talking to my buddies on the coast 60-70 miles conditions can effect signals.

 

[Sonar]

Local or simply non-DX contact. I edited it for you. I posted that after a couple more posted DX contacts.

Thank you Captain! Much appreciated.

 

[Sonar]

OK, with that in mind then 200-400 miles done daily on 6 meters with 6 elements@40ft and 400 watts.
Have worked over 200 miles from Mobile direct.
10 meter mobile I think best was around 160 miles with 100 watts

That's impressive!

 

[Sonar]

Furthest i could talk regular on cb with a vertical omni is about 110miles using a Ham Big-Mac on 73ft pole in a field,

but i don't think that's without some help from bending or reflection,
even talking to my buddies on the coast 60-70 miles conditions can effect signals.

I'm beginning to realize how ineffective my IMAX 2000 is 8 feet ground too so 239. Hoping that when 808 comes over to my QTH to reinstall my antenna we can come up with a way to get it up in the air a bit higher than than 8'. I have purchased a 20 foot telescoping mast. But I'm not sure how high I will be able to push it up into the and leave it. That'll depend on whether or not we can somehow fasten it to the tree in which it stands next to.

 

[Tallman]

195 miles from mobile to base station. My mobile had dual 1/4 wave antennas with my home made co phase harness. No extra power just the 12 watts PEP allowed. The base station had and eight element beam. SSB of course.

 

[Slowmover]

On a long-distance oilfield run was coming down the mountain near midnight onto the plains before Fort Stockton, Texas. Made contact on AM-19 with another of our trucks when I recognized the drivers voice as he was departing Monahans, TX going South.

The distance between those two cities is 48-miles. I was more than 10-miles ENE of the turn to go North on that line.

GALAXY 99v2 into a pair of Wilson 2000’s on a Peterbilt 367.
Pro install. Had just bought the WMR ClearSpeech DSP Speaker.

Several others heard us at each end, but not both.

The next night I was conversing with another set of our drivers at a distance while one of our hands was following me. Irked him to no end he couldn’t hear them. He called them on the phone and got confirmation hearing my voice at their end.

That sure was a relief I hadn’t blown $200 on some gizmo. Hoped that the install & Speaker would get his interest given the demonstration. (Nope).

So,

I’d switch over to the robot voice changer and back down the mic gain and the power. Almost whisper. I knew he was straining to hear whatever it was. I really had him going, that trip . . . .

Still too hardheaded.

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[walterjn]

Non-DX, barefoot SSB about 60 miles, mobile to my buddie's base.

 

[BJ radionut]

That's impressive!

SONAR: The normal ambient noise threshold is so much quieter on 15/10/6 meters is what drove me to the Amatuer bands.
The noise threshold on 11 meters due to the noise toys plus the heterodyne from the overlapping AM carriers, even when using SSB is horrendous. You can't work them if you can't hear, regardless of the power level. During the good Sun cycle in the mid 80's , I had a 25 watt Yaesu FT-7 transceiver mobile I could talk 50 to 60+ miles easily to one or more of my Elmer's, then when band was open had a friend stationed in HILO, HI. We would talk 2-3 times a week while I was commuting home from work in the late afternoon. The band is just that much more quiet.
All the Best
Gary

 

[543_Dallas]

85 miles as the crow flies (according to Google) from my mobile to a friends base on AM. He had a 7 element beam that did all the work. I was using a 7ft skipshooter on the roof of a pickup truck.

 

[w9cll]

Not to be a party pooper but being the CB section anything over 12 watts should not count should it not? My furtheat contact was the moon and back so I that counts right? Of course this wasn't on 11 meters but on 144.225.

 

[midnight special]

on one of the coldest nights january 1979 using a moonraker 4 with a robyn t240d into a pdx 400,,,,, menifee county ky to just north of nashville tenn,,,, we had a devil of a time trying to listen for each other after we realized the distance,,,, i have sinced moved to florida much warmer now,,,,, but here, plant city fl with a galaxy 2527 into , yea ya guessed it pdx400 and a realistic modified .64 crossbow aluminum antenna from 1978 to gainesville fl... once hit alligator point fl from here but always chalked that contact up to backscatter.....

 

[TM86]

South San Jose to Santa Rosa , both in California, about 90 miles. Both of us on base stations very late at night on LSB. I was using a President Madison into Super Big Stick, don't remember what the other guy had. The only thing between us was the San Francisco Bay, and maybe a few low hills. That was probably 1985 or so.

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Not to be a party pooper but being the CB section anything over 12 watts should not count should it not? My furtheat contact was the moon and back so I that counts right? Of course this wasn't on 11 meters but on 144.225.

Who runs just 12 w on CB?

 

[BJ radionut]

Who runs just 12 w on CB?

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Maybe it was some kind of local skip or maybe the background noise was unusually low. I talked to a guy one night up into Pennsylvania, I forget what he was running. The guy said that it was 100 miles as the crow flies. This was on my Sonar with the Context 500 (one driving four 6LQ6) and my Sirio Vector 4000 that is 40ft to the feed point. A local about 1/2 hour closer to him was also talking to him on his 4 element Moonraker.