What's the highest elevation you've TXed from?

[arcone]

Like the subject says, send in your highest elevation above sea level that you have ever transmitted from and where. Let us know whether it was mobile or base station, base will have the edge on mobile at the same elevation and transmissions from aircraft don't count.

Mine is 1711 metres or 5613.5 feet, best I can recall, and it was a base station out of a tent. Radio was a Uniden Washington with a half wave Itron antenna mounted at ground level. Location was Pretty Valley Pondage camping ground, Victoria, Australia.
Here's a link to take a look at what it's like up there.
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Jeremy.

[MDYoungblood]

Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, don't remember the elevation but where I was standing you could see forever 360°, was shooting skip until a Park Ranger made me move the truck.

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Greg

[51]

in the good old days (for me) when skip was almost 24hrs a day, ( the 1980's) on the weekends i would drive to the top of Haleakala volcano on maui and shoot skip all day. was so much fun and the 360 deg clear shot was awesome. height was 10,023 ft. above sea level.

[arcone]

I'll check out those smoky mountains Greg. And 51, wow that's high, we just don't have mountains like that here in OZ... or volcanoes. Our highest peak is Mt Kosciuszko which is 7310ft, so where I was is one of the highest places in Australia.

[Wildrat]

I don't remember, been using radio for decades and been all over. However I do know I am at the lowest I have ever been using the radio @ 19 feet above sea level with my base lower when mobile. LOL

[arcone]

I'm inland about 60 miles north of Melbourne on the river flat, but that's about 575 feet above sea level. Are you by the water Wildrat?

[Thunderbird641GA]

Well, I haven't been set up for very long, but from a base it would be around 800 ft. above sea level, which is where I sit right now in the hills of NW Georgia. I have driven around this area and talked, but I doubt I've gone over 1,000 ft. I have transmitted on a blister pack Cobra FRS radio at 11,158 ft. inside and outside of the Eisenhower tunnel on I-70, but that was just for very short range coms while using three vehicles to make a move back east from the Rockies.

[Wildrat]

I'm inland about 60 miles north of Melbourne on the river flat, but that's about 575 feet above sea level. Are you by the water Wildrat?

Yep, about a mile and a half from Mobile Bay by the Gulf of Mexico. I forgot about Dog River behind me, I'm only about a city block from it. LOL I'm surrounded by water, but it makes a good ground plane.

[jessejamesdallas]

Top of Pikes Peak in Colorado!

and didn't make one single contact...Didn't hear anyone either....

[325 lasvegas]

Just a little under 10,000 feet on Mt Charleston about a 45 minute drive from Las Vegas. I used to go camping there all the time to escape the scorching Vegas summer. I used a Galaxy 95T with a dipole I would string up between trees. It worked really well at that height.

[arcone]

I think Pikes Peak is holding it so far. Funny that no one came back to you Jesse James, maybe you were shooting over the top of them. I trust you took it easy on the way up... or did you try to break a record? Lots of other good ones coming in, gotta love the dipole strung up between two trees when you're camping.

[jessejamesdallas]

I think Pikes Peak is holding it so far. Funny that no one came back to you Jesse James, maybe you were shooting over the top of them. I trust you took it easy on the way up... or did you try to break a record? Lots of other good ones coming in, gotta love the dipole strung up between two trees when you're camping.

Day we went up, the top was all fogged in which may have had something to do with conditions...Thought I would at least pick up some local traffic at the bottom of the hill, but maybe like you said, I was just shooting over the tops of everyone's head....By the way, "going up" is not that big a deal..It's coming down where you have to watch your "P's & Q's"...

[arcone]

Ha ha, that's right the descent is more dangerous, but they don't call it a hillclimb for nothing. Was this back in the day when it was gravel before they ruined it (in my opinion)? And yes, I have been in those conditions, kinda like a white out. I don't think all of those tiny droplets you get with the mist help the propagation necessarily.
Jeremy.

[jessejamesdallas]

Ha ha, that's right the descent is more dangerous, but they don't call it a hillclimb for nothing. Was this back in the day when it was gravel before they ruined it (in my opinion)? And yes, I have been in those conditions, kinda like a white out. I don't think all of those tiny droplets you get with the mist help the propagation necessarily.
Jeremy.

It was paved half way up, but then gravel rest of the way...probably back in the Mid 90's...Last time we went they were getting ready for some kind of race where they close the mountain for racers to race up and down...They were setting up places along the road (I guess) for helicopters to land if someone flew off the road and crashed...can't imagine racing up and down that road.

[MDYoungblood]

I think Pikes Peak is holding it so far. Funny that no one came back to you Jesse James, maybe you were shooting over the top of them. I trust you took it easy on the way up... or did you try to break a record? Lots of other good ones coming in, gotta love the dipole strung up between two trees when you're camping.

Day we went up, the top was all fogged in which may have had something to do with conditions...Thought I would at least pick up some local traffic at the bottom of the hill, but maybe like you said, I was just shooting over the tops of everyone's head....By the way, "going up" is not that big a deal..It's coming down where you have to watch your "P's & Q's"...

, JJD, that wasn't fog, that was clouds

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Greg

[jessejamesdallas]

I think Pikes Peak is holding it so far. Funny that no one came back to you Jesse James, maybe you were shooting over the top of them. I trust you took it easy on the way up... or did you try to break a record? Lots of other good ones coming in, gotta love the dipole strung up between two trees when you're camping.

Day we went up, the top was all fogged in which may have had something to do with conditions...Thought I would at least pick up some local traffic at the bottom of the hill, but maybe like you said, I was just shooting over the tops of everyone's head....By the way, "going up" is not that big a deal..It's coming down where you have to watch your "P's & Q's"...

, JJD, that wasn't fog, that was clouds

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Greg

guess there's a strong possibility of that...

[443 Arizona]

once on Mt, Adams, (CO), above the treeline, receive was a bit of skip, UN-legable, that was 1979. mobile, i was more concerned about the road(trail) than cbing.
then once in MT,coming down the E side of beartooth. skip, clear, loud, but not able to keep contact beyond initial shout. mobile , about 1995
i always try to talk on the cb when up in elevation, has not been very successful, probably 1 outa 15 , nothing lately. a few stations in the Arizona mts. but seems like never on.
BUT it is clear and strong signals when it happens, like an FM radio.

[Low379]

Top of Pikes Peak in Colorado!

and didn't make one single contact...Didn't hear anyone either....

I had the same exact problem on Tuesday when I was out there. Didn’t hear much some stray chatter but no one answered back when I was calling out. Was talking to a few locals in the fairplay area from the cabin which is @ 10,950 ft up. Was sitting in the truck on a DX 949 and a browning br-28 on the roof on a tri mag mount

[gadget1964]

Drove up Mt. Washington in NH about 15 years ago. There was no real skip coming in, but did talk to a couple of guys in Portland/Westbrook, Maine. Mt Washington is 6,288 ft, I was parked just below that. I used a Uniden Grant XL and a K40 mag mount. Distance probably around 75 miles?

[Swanman]

My current QTH is right at 1000 ft. Have transmitted from 30k ft. but aircraft are not included.