skip was rolling....

I prefer mine warmed

 

In my fraternity house days, we were more likely to find them the next morning after a party, long since *not warm*. But someone would always eat them <yecchh!>

 

There you ham guys go again. The CBers start a thread about talking skip on the CB band and it gets hijacked to a ham thread........

 

We were talking about Frijoles, amigo...

 

So how do i call out to make contact with a fellow skipper? Just lookin to try, useing a cobra 29 modded and a fiberglass antenna on the mirror of my prostar

 

If it is the factory antenna and coax it could be tough. I never had any luck until i rewired coax and grounded the mirror mounts.
New antenna then i had some luck.
It was a 40 watt radio too.

If you hear skip,someone broadcasting from a long distance, just shout back and ask if anyone has a copy on your radio in whatever location you are in.

 

If you hear them, listen out for their call number (usually one made up) and then respond back that you can hear them, acknowledge their call and then throw out your call...if you don't already have a call, make something up...any random of numbers will be fine. I go by "231" and it applies to me because I drive a Buick Regal T type (Grand National) with a 231 cube engine. I also include my location (Missouri) so my call is "231 Missouri". HTH.

Also don't get discouraged if you hear someone and you respond and they don't respond back. Often times if the the guy you're trying to call has a really strong signal (due to a good antenna, or power, or both) he may have half the U.S. hearing him/trying to get back to him.

 

Mike,
I'm a CBer as well as a ham. Turbo (dunno if he's a ham) brought up an aspect of beacons. If no CBers ever used ham gear, most would never hear a beacon. But apparently *some* are.
From all the threads I've read, it sounds like *lotsa* guys are using ham gear, and are hearing skip, or want to. Who'd you rather go to for info on them: someone with just empirical info borne of experience with one band, or folks who've studied propagation and understand how it varies with frequency, and are familiar with MUF and can comprehend the NIST's propagation forecasts? Or the layers of the troposphere and why skip happens only some bands? And why the beacons are important to listeners?
I see lots of smart folks on here. When someone mentions beacons, it may interest a lot of them. If not, how long does it take to skip over one or two posts in a thread, anyway?On the other hand, if your "rant" about hijacks by hams was done tongue-in-cheek, please excuse the above
73 from a CBer/ham/professional radio tech

 

What'd I miss on this one? I know I'm reading it right, problem is there are only 2 actual words in that sequence.