Here's my two cents about skip, for those who don't have an outdoor
antenna. I used to live in a Townhouse, and upstairs I used an ACI full
wave mobile antenna, mag mount. on a folding metal closet door
(horizontal). I ran beautiful skip, using my Grant on a power supply. I
talked to England, Austalia, and many other locations, when skip was
good back in the late 80's to early 90's! Most people in my area didn't
believe it, as my local signal was not good of course.