Yesterday my son and I were talking on the radio and the skip was bad on channel 19 so we went to a different quieter channel to continue to talk. Shortly after we started our conversation it seems the skip followed us but this time they were trying to talk to us.

We decided to purchase a map and start putting a pin on locations we are able to connect with. Now keep in mind, we are not running any amplifiers and we have a basic Cobra 2000gtl with a A-99 5/8 ground plane about 35 feet off of the ground.

My question here is... How far have you reached (as the crow flies) to someone else? Our best so far is a gentleman called "Keystone" who lives in Pennsylvania which is about 781 miles as the crow flies. He was very excited!

How far have to reached?