FURTHEST LOCAL NON-DX CONTACT?

[Sonar]

With a Uniden Madison, Silver Eagle, IMAX 2000 (8ft off the ground,) and 500 (pep) watts i made SSB contact on several occasions with a mobile (Gary) in Staten Island New York. That's approximately 70 miles from my QTH In Southern New Jerseys Pine Barrens.

With a Sonar 2340, non amplified high Z d104, Demco modulator and and 500 (pep) watts (iMAX 2000 8' off the ground) on AM i made contact with Oley Pennsylvania. Approximately 80 miles from my QTH.

What does your station consist of, and what's your furthest point to point
SSB/AM contact?
No cheating! LOL 73's
PS. If possible please add a picture of your setup.

 

[sp5it]

From my location S. Cook Is. 16547 km (10281mi) short path. SSB. Multiple times, multiple stations, different radios and antennas over the years.
Mike

Edit:
Just noticed, it is CB section.
That would be station Bulldog unit777 from Maine. 6300 km (3915mi), ch29 AM from vertical antenna and regular CB radio.

 

[walterjn]

Mobile, Uniden Grant XL with stock mic, Texas Star bilateral dx350.

Heading home from Vegas last November, I made quite a few SSB contacts. I made a contact with a station in Virginia. As near as I can figure that is about 2,100 miles away.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Granted this was 0n 20m but with 100 watts and a 20m Hamstick antenna on the mobile I worked 3B9C on Rodriques Island off East Africa in the Indian Ocean one morning via longpath. 15,000 miles.

 

[Christopher17]

Belize is my futherest contact, not sure how to calculate the milage , on AM with the old Navaho

 

[Christopher17]

So found a milage calculate webpage and Belize is only 1250 miles, so my contacts with Ontario Canada are further at 1700 miles on LSB

 

[undertaker]

Jamaica...

 

[BJ radionut]

14,251 KM...9,023 miles from Central Indiana
Using Homebrew 1/2 wave Ground Plane @ 33ft...100w SSB



14,552 KM ... 9,043 miles from Central Indiana

Using Homebrew 1/2 wave Ground Plane @ 33ft...100w SSB

 

[bob85]

I think you mean 70 / 80 miles point to point no skiping off the ionosphere,

What some of my locals mistakenly call ground wave, i used to call it direct wave but i changed my mind,

even just 70 miles which is doable every day on CB there will likely to be reflections & bending at play unless you live up towers in a desert with line of sight view,

even then you can't be sure theres no reflections.

 

[Sonar]

I think you mean 70 / 80 miles point to point no skiping off the ionosphere,

What some of my locals mistakenly call ground wave, i used to call it direct wave but i changed my mind,

even just 70 miles which is doable every day on CB there will likely to be reflections & bending at play unless you live up towers in a desert with line of sight view,

even then you can't be sure theres no reflections.

I did mean without any Sunspot ionosphere help. I thought that was referred to as point-to-point. It seems like I was wrong. Boy I wish I could change the heading of the post. What should I tell the the members that are already replied? I don't think anybody can you make a 1000 mile + point-to-point contact. If they're referring to dxing miles I have had qso with Guam, and turkey. What should I change the posting heading to? As opposed to point-to-point?

 

[Sonar]

Granted this was 0n 20m but with 100 watts and a 20m Hamstick antenna on the mobile I worked 3B9C on Rodriques Island off East Africa in the Indian Ocean one morning via longpath. 15,000 miles.

Captain. I thought point-to-point meant without help from the ionosphere. A non DX contact. I'd like to change the heading of my post. I'm assuming since everyone is throwing out these tremendous amount of miles they're talkin skip. I thought point-to-point meant without the help of sunspots\ionosphere. What should I change the heading to? Is it ground-wave? What's the proper terminology for a contact without any help from the ionosphere? A non DX contact?

 

[sp5it]

"Ground wave" point to point on CB I did circa 150km between my static mobile and base station. I was 800m over sea level, on top of the hill running barefoot SSB and 1.8m antenna.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Captain. I thought point-to-point meant without help from the ionosphere. A non DX contact. I'd like to change the heading of my post. I'm assuming since everyone is throwing out these tremendous amount of miles they're talkin skip. I thought point-to-point meant without the help of sunspots\ionosphere. What should I change the heading to? Is it ground-wave? What's the proper terminology for a contact without any help from the ionosphere? A non DX contact?

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

 

[tecnicoloco]

Local about 65 to 75 miles of my location,non-dx with a vertical @ 45 ft on regular 40 ch am/ssb

 

[BJ radionut]

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

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