SHOOTING SKIP
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BobOstro61
Talking long distance. Your signal "skips" off the ionosphere and allows you to talk much farther than usual. I think on 11 meters, the length of a single "skip" is somewhere around 800 miles. That's why when skip is rolling here, in Chicago we get a ton from the east coast. Its pretty close to 800 miles. That's what a ham guy told me at the last Hamfesters field day anyway.
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BigBopper
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Falkon MX-5
What that drawing shows is the radiation pattern of an antenna. A 1/2 wave vertical radiates equally in all directions while a 5/8 wave vertical radiates at lower angles.
The lower angles are better, because there's less signal is wasted by bouncing right back at you and the signal skips instead. A single skip can be a few hundred miles or a long distance, but 800 miles seems about right.
The lower angles are better, because there's less signal is wasted by bouncing right back at you and the signal skips instead. A single skip can be a few hundred miles or a long distance, but 800 miles seems about right.
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Mr RadioActive
Its when a neighbor comes to grip about TVi issues and you make him look like swiss cheeze! NO NO JUST KIDDING
The F2 layer of the ionsphere charges up during the day and signals bounce off of it usually 1200 mile (around) bounces. Then theres temp inversion skip singals get trapped between hot and cold air, and you can talk usually more local several hundred miles. EME skip Earth Moon Earth, bouncing signals off the moon. Ping Jockeys bounch signals off of meteor trails, it goes on and on!
The F2 layer of the ionsphere charges up during the day and signals bounce off of it usually 1200 mile (around) bounces. Then theres temp inversion skip singals get trapped between hot and cold air, and you can talk usually more local several hundred miles. EME skip Earth Moon Earth, bouncing signals off the moon. Ping Jockeys bounch signals off of meteor trails, it goes on and on!
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troy
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troy
