Finally picked up skip

[rhalld38]

OHP Side 1...44.700, picked this up while traveling home from Chicago. It was coming in loud and clear and sometimes a little scratchy. Picked up on my PSR 500 with a mobile antenna.

[Ray_Air]

Originally Posted by rhalld38

OHP Side 1...44.700, picked this up while traveling home from Chicago. It was coming in loud and clear and sometimes a little scratchy. Picked up on my PSR 500 with a mobile antenna.

I found skip on low band is pretty addictive. Got hooked when I was 13, that was over 15 years ago.

[IrvingtonVFD43]

Originally Posted by Ray_Air

I found skip on low band is pretty addictive. Got hooked when I was 13, that was over 15 years ago.

You got company! I "accidentally" ran into skip running search function about 15 years ago myself. Got a pager on 35.22 and spanish speaking transmissions over 30.96. Both very strong, all during solar cycle 22 (I think that was the cycle).

This was on a RadioShack (oh The Shack) pro 2026, with a multi-band ground plane antenna also made by "The Shack"

[IdenLarry]

Get yourself ham license. It's twice as fun to talk to these wordwide stations also. You don't need much of an antenna or big power. I accessed 10 meter repeaters (29.62, 29,64, & 29.66 KHz) with a 5 watt HT. 29.60 MHz is the simplex calling frequency and is always active when the band is open.

It will only get better from this point on for a long time.

[Ray_Air]

Originally Posted by IrvingtonVFD43

You got company! I "accidentally" ran into skip running search function about 15 years ago myself. Got a pager on 35.22 and spanish speaking transmissions over 30.96. Both very strong, all during solar cycle 22 (I think that was the cycle).

This was on a RadioShack (oh The Shack) pro 2026, with a multi-band ground plane antenna also made by "The Shack"

Right about when I got my first scanner (PRO-2023), Popular Communications did a magazine feature about low band skip on the front cover (around 1992 or so). They even talked of clandestine communications being monitored. This peaked my interest and got me into skip. I never really heard anything clandestine on low band, but I have heard many PD's, FD's , EMS and business users from far away. I love HF also. I have heard quite a bit of clandestine comm's on HF.

[mcanders]

Can someone define skip for me? I have read it on the forums and it sounds interesting, just don't have a clue what you guys are talking about.

[dracer777]

Originally Posted by mcanders

Can someone define skip for me? I have read it on the forums and it sounds interesting, just don't have a clue what you guys are talking about.

Someone else can probably define it better than me. But skip monitoring is basically listening to far away signals, courtesy of certain atmospheric conditions. basically the signals "skip" off the atmosphere and bounce to you.

[enosjones]

Originally Posted by IrvingtonVFD43

You got company! I "accidentally" ran into skip running search function about 15 years ago myself. Got a pager on 35.22 and spanish speaking transmissions over 30.96. Both very strong, all during solar cycle 22 (I think that was the cycle).

This was on a RadioShack (oh The Shack) pro 2026, with a multi-band ground plane antenna also made by "The Shack"

I picked up Skip here about 4 or 5 years ago it has since faded out. I picked up stuff from 26-40MHz, I was just wondering if there is a way to know when it comes back? I got it for about 2-3 years in a row between October and about April. But now so far i Haven't heard it for about 3 to 4 years.

[gewecke]

Originally Posted by mcanders

Can someone define skip for me? I have read it on the forums and it sounds interesting, just don't have a clue what you guys are talking about.

"Hey jose' only 14 mas kilos to load amigo!
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[tekshogun]

I've been inside one of the NCHP dispatch centers while they got skip coming. To hear the slight confusion is often pretty interesting.