Today was a good day for skip, at least for me here in south Texas it was.
I made contacts on LSB to Washington,California,Montana and Nevada then later the Northeast was coming in pretty good. But the highlight of my day was making my first overseas contact to 220 in Australia. It was only about a 4-5 minute contact but it made my day. I am only talking with a Magnum S-45 and a 4 foot fiberglass Wilson antenna using an Extreme 2018 mic.
I have had several people think I was talking on a base station, they tell me that the audio coming from my setup sounds that good. I love this radio, the only problem with it so far is that the talkback rarely works on it. I have only had a couple of people(fellow truckers) tell me that the radio didn't sound good to them. But maybe we were too close, but who knows.
I also heard New Zealand,England and Hawaii today. I hear Hawaii a lot but I never can make contact. But like I said making my first overseas contact to Australia really made my day.
I made contacts on LSB to Washington,California,Montana and Nevada then later the Northeast was coming in pretty good. But the highlight of my day was making my first overseas contact to 220 in Australia. It was only about a 4-5 minute contact but it made my day. I am only talking with a Magnum S-45 and a 4 foot fiberglass Wilson antenna using an Extreme 2018 mic.
I have had several people think I was talking on a base station, they tell me that the audio coming from my setup sounds that good. I love this radio, the only problem with it so far is that the talkback rarely works on it. I have only had a couple of people(fellow truckers) tell me that the radio didn't sound good to them. But maybe we were too close, but who knows.
I also heard New Zealand,England and Hawaii today. I hear Hawaii a lot but I never can make contact. But like I said making my first overseas contact to Australia really made my day.
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