We used to have a saying at work: 100 Watts, 100 feet, 100 miles.
Glad I don't work there.
We used to have a saying at work: 100 Watts, 100 feet, 100 miles.
Barefoot and CB, I have not heard those two terms together in a long time
Yeah it seemed a little strange to me too when I typed that. :laugh: To be honest a great deal of people think you need to run power in order to DX simply because so many people do run power. It seems to be a self fulfilling prophesy. So many people run power so it must be necessary and therefore since so many people are running power I need too also.
A few years ago, before the solar peak mind you, I was sitting in a mall parking lot running 25 watts on SSB. I worked another mobile in Luxor Egypt 5300 miles away. He was using a President Lincoln with 25 watts also and a mobile antenna. Once you move into something like 15 or 20m it becomes even easier to work DX with less than 100 watts. Some of my best DX has been from the mobile with usually 25 watts and a maximum of 100 watts. Rodriguez Island (3B9C) via longpath 15,000 miles, Swaziland,Argentina, South Africa, Japan, Botswana, Reunion Island,Norfolk Island, Kuwait and eastern Australia were all worked with a maximum of 100 watts and while mobile.
Everyone thinks you need to run huge amounts of power to talk skip. I have worked Europe on PSK 31 on 20 meters with 10 watts!