I am amazed by the skip on the CB sometimes 
Back in the UK CB radios are all FM and from what I learned about them FM signals follow the curvature of the earth and this way is it possible to talk to someone long distances away very clearly if there are no others talking between. In the past I have been on the M18 in Yorkshire talking to an old friend (King Creole) who was on Leicester Forrest very early one morning. here in the USA CB’s are all AM and the signal travels in a straight line, so the further away you get from a friend the signal fades because of the mountains and curvature.
Weds evening I was driving along I-90 east of Buffalo listening to a couple of guys talking for quite a while before I realised where they were … One said he hoped to make San Antonio for the night as he had set out from LA that morning That is about 2,000 miles or more away.
This is due to the skip when the signal travelling in a straight line bouces off the atmosphere and back to the ground again. I sometimes hear people talking at truckstops in Texas, or Arizona via skip. Amazing.
2,000 miles is alot farther than the 155 miles your allowed to talk on the CB, your breaking the law Good Buddy 
I’ve been up the top end of Poland listening to bulk tipper drivers moaning in Norfolk, that was quite regular. I’ve heard people in the UK from by Belgrade too, oh & in the bottom of Spain by Granada too. I don’t know how it works but I remember some bloke saying CQ CQ DX over & over years ago, I’ve not a clue what the F he was on about But it was something to do with skip.
A skip is the best place for a CB
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I’ve been up the top end of Poland listening to bulk tipper drivers moaning in Norfolk, that was quite regular. I’ve heard people in the UK from by Belgrade too, oh & in the bottom of Spain by Granada too. I don’t know how it works but I remember some bloke saying CQ CQ DX over & over years ago, I’ve not a clue what the F he was on about
Thats an example of the FM signal following the curvature of the earth … there is just open sea between Norfolk and Poland/
Last conversation I heard on a CB was on monday when I went down to London. Something about choclate flavoured condoms and a stag do. Apparently they melt in your mouth but not in your hand
Only brick drivers would talk of such things
Cheers
Jonny 
Evidently there’s a lot of skip up in the Northern Territories, one of our blokes was telling me he was talking to someone in Arizona or somewhere from up there, he is a bit of a CB nut though, got a BIG radio and all that, typically the bigger radio is usually owned by the people who talk the least amount of sense, that is very true in this case
I don’t usually hear any skip, I run mine with the squelch off, I was told to adjust the RF gain to get rid of the static, so I have mine at about 1 o’clock, if I turn it right up I can get about 4 or 5 miles range, that’s from a tuned up Cobra 29, it puts out about 30W, I’ve got decent aerials, but crap Co-Ax, so I could improve that a bit, but I don’t use it enough to warrant getting my mirrors taken off and ripping out half my interior to run the Co-Ax properly