Re: from DM63
Michael Daly
Bruce,
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That's a lot of weight on the trailer hitch. Good going. Mike, n5sj
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From: main@nmvhf.groups.io [mailto:main@nmvhf.groups.io] On Behalf Of Bruce Draper Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 10:48 AM To: nmvhf@groups.io Subject: [nmvhf] from DM63 Here's a photo from my DM63 operation on Wednesday morning. Worked W9RM on MSK144 for his last NM grid, along with about 15 other guys, plus 2 more on FT8. Bruce AA5B
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Re: from DM63
Mike WB2FKO
Congratulations, I imagine you are getting close to FFMA? Mike WB2FKO
On 1/15/20 12:52 PM, Keith Morehouse
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Re: from DM63
Keith Morehouse
Bruce, you had good, consistent scatter pings whenever you were pointed my direction. Real good for 300-350 miles. Thanks for going out and for the last DM-field grid. -W9RM Keith Morehouse via MotoG
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 10:48 AM Bruce Draper <bruceaa5b@...> wrote: Here's a photo from my DM63 operation on Wednesday morning. Worked W9RM on MSK144 for his last NM grid, along with about 15 other guys, plus 2 more on FT8.
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from DM63
Bruce Draper
Here's a photo from my DM63 operation on Wednesday morning. Worked W9RM on MSK144 for his last NM grid, along with about 15 other guys, plus 2 more on FT8.
Bruce AA5B
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New Mexico TechFest -- Presentation lineup, Online registration
Brian Mileshosky
Greetings — This note is to announce that the presentation, posterboard, and demo lineup for this year’s New Mexico TechFest has been released. In addition, online registration for the event is now open! Please visit https://www.rmham.org/wordpress/new-mexico-techfest to view the lineup, read the abstracts, and register to attend TechFest. The sixth annual New Mexico TechFest, an ARRL-sanctioned operating specialty event sponsored by Rocky Mountain Ham Radio, will take place on Saturday, February 29, 2020. TechFest features a day of quality presentations and demonstrations provided by some of New Mexico and Colorado’s leading technical hams on a variety of emerging and relevant topics within amateur radio. Its purpose is to facilitate the sharing of technical knowledge and collaboration within the amateur radio community, and to encourage the discussion of new ideas with one another. TechFest is open to all interested hams and will occur at the New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial Event Center located at 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108. Admission is $10. Presentation-related prizes will be drawn throughout the event. Refreshments including coffee, water, and light snacks will be available. Optional lunch, catered by local small business, will be available at an additional cost. In addition, this year’s TechFest will feature the launch of a pico balloon, intended to travel across the country and possibly the world while carrying a VHF APRS or HF WSPR beacon. Ham will be able to track the location of this balloon online once launched. Additional details about the New Mexico TechFest can be found at http://www.rmham.org/wordpress/new-mexico-techfest 73, Brian N5ZGT Rocky Mountain Ham Radio — New Mexico
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FW: Selling Icom IC-706MKIIG
Michael Daly
This from Jim who moved to Albuquerque recently from the east. Mike
From: Jim Kunowsky [mailto:K4ECP@q.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 4:13 PM To: Mike Daly <arrowengineering1@...> Subject: Selling Icom IC-706MKIIG
Hi Mike,
I thought you may know of someone looking for a nice rig. I am wanting to sell my 706 as I want to upgrade to the IC-7100. I will be asking $560.00 for a local buyer. If I don’t sell it locally I will either list it on QRZ and/or Ebay for more to cover fees and shipping. It would include the rig, power cable and hand mic.
Please let me know if you happen to know of anyone looking for a good used rig -
73 Jim K4ECP
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Re: W9RM - JANUARY VHF test
Jay
Mike, Have fun at K5QE.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 11:48 AM Mike WB2FKO <mph@...> wrote: Yes, there is more to do this weekend than watch football. I will be
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Re: W9RM - JANUARY VHF test
Mike WB2FKO
Yes, there is more to do this weekend than watch football. I will be part of the K5QE multi-op in EM31. Don't know where Marshall will assign me, but I hope to be running meteor scatter at some point. We will be looking for real-time skeds on Pingjockey or slack!
Mike WB2FKO
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Re: NMVHF SLACK chat page during this weekends JANUARY VHF CONTEST
Mike WB2FKO
No formal invite needed. Use the link in the upper-left corner here: WB2FKO
On 1/14/20 12:14 PM, Keith Morehouse
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W9RM - JANUARY VHF test
Keith Morehouse
The ARRL JANUARY VHF TEST is this coming weekend. I will be around to help with multipliers. If someone needs/wants a sked with DM58 let me know - you're not gonna work the grid unless you work me ! I will not be up full time - too few people to work. But I'll be there when it counts or for your sked. Yes, I will (grudgingly) work you on FT8 - sigh... 50 - 7el x2 + 5el fixed NW and KW 144 - 5WL beam at 50' and 600W 222 - 5WL beam at 70' and 500W 432 - 9WL beam at 75' and KW 900 & 1296 - on the shelf - nobody to work out here -W9RM Keith J Morehouse Managing Partner Calmesa Partners G.P. Olathe, CO
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NMVHF SLACK chat page during this weekends JANUARY VHF CONTEST
Keith Morehouse
A reminder to all - the club has a Slack workspace page that has been quite useful in past contests. It's super easy to switch back and forth between it and the VHF Slack pages formed by N5TM, which is widely used as a chat hub here in the SW and NW USA. These Slack workspaces have become one of two normal places to meet and set up 50 MHz+ skeds (the other being PingJockey). It's at <newmexicovhf.slack.com> If you're not currently signed up for it, there is an "invite" process, although I'm not sure who has to do the inviting. -W9RM Keith J Morehouse Managing Partner Calmesa Partners G.P. Olathe, CO
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New world-wide 70 cm tropo record
Keith Morehouse
Very cool - 4562 KM ! ! ! Only 100W on the north end of the path. -W9RM Keith J Morehouse Managing Partner Calmesa Partners G.P. Olathe, CO
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New Mexico TechFest -- Presentation call reminder
Brian Mileshosky
Greetings — If you are interested in providing a presentation, posterboard, or demonstration at the 2020 New Mexico TechFest next February, this is a kind reminder to submit your proposal(s) before the January 1 deadline, just about a week from now. CALL FOR TECHFEST PRESENTATIONS, POSTERBOARDS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS: The New Mexico TechFest is seeking presentations, posterboards, and demos on emerging and relevant amateur radio technical topics, techniques, and applications. If you’ve been working on a special project, are researching a technical topic, or have discovered or adopted a technology or technique that you’re applying within amateur radio, TechFest is a great venue to share your knowledge with the amateur radio community in a casual and friendly environment. Presentations will generally be 50 minutes in total length. Shorter posterboard talks and demos will also occur throughout the day. AC-powered tables will be provided to facilitate presentations and demos. Hams interested in providing a presentation, posterboard, or demonstration are asked to submit a summary/abstract of their proposed topic for consideration by January 1, 2020. Visit the New Mexico TechFest website for submission details and key dates. Rocky Mountain Ham Radio - New Mexico (RMHR-NM) is pleased to announce its sixth annual New Mexico TechFest, an ARRL-sanctioned operating specialty event, on Saturday, February 29, 2020. TechFest features a day of quality presentations and demonstrations provided by some of New Mexico and Colorado’s leading technical hams on a variety of emerging and relevant topics within amateur radio. Its purpose is to facilitate the sharing of technical knowledge and collaboration within the amateur radio community, and to encourage the discussion of new ideas with one another. TechFest is open to all interested hams and will occur at the New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial Event Center located at 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108. Admission is $10. Online registration will open on or about the week of January 6, when the event’s lineup of presentations, posterboards, and demonstrations is announced. Presentation-related prizes will be drawn throughout the event. Refreshments including coffee, water, and light snacks will be available. Optional lunch, catered by local small business, will be available at an additional cost. Additional details about the New Mexico TechFest, for both attendees and potential presenters, can be found at http://www.rmham.org/wordpress/new-mexico-techfest A printable event flyer for posting on ham listserves, your club’s website, or your club’s newsletter is attached. 73, Brian N5ZGT (President, Rocky Mountain Ham Radio — New Mexico)
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Re: DM63
Keith Morehouse
To get any kind of efficiency on M/S, you really need to be out beyond 450-500 miles. That's been my minimum distance cut-off for contest schedules for many years. So, the farther, the better. Being able to elevate is the biggest advantage when close in. BUT, from DM58, I have made dozens of 6M scatter contacts in the 250-400 miles range. These have been with well equipped stations (500W, 5+ ele antennas) and with mobiles/rovers running anything from whips to 2-3 element beams. I've worked George, KF2T, all through NV when he's been running nothing more than a halo and 100W. I don't know what kind of scatter some of these Q's were. Some appeared to be traditional M/S, with occasional short pings. Some had longer bursts and flutter-type sounds. Some were troposcatter - constant, fluttery, weak but easily copied by WSJT. Because of the short range of most of these Q's, I doubt the major propagation mode were meteors, but the Q was made and logged. -W9RM Keith J Morehouse Managing Partner Calmesa Partners G.P. Olathe, CO
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 9:06 PM Steve London <n2ic@...> wrote: Would it help the meteor scatter possibilities if it was done from T or C, 70
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Re: DM63
Steve London
Would it help the meteor scatter possibilities if it was done from T or C, 70 miles farther from W9RM ?
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73, Steve, N2IC
On 12/23/2019 05:48 PM, James Duffey wrote:
I must confess that I have been remiss in uploading my rover sites to NMVHF.org. I will try to do that in the new year. Here is a site that I have operated from in DM63. It is a pullout in Hwy1 south of Socorro, just before HWY crosses over I25. It is about as close to the northern border of DM63 as you can easily get to from Albuquerque. There is plenty of space to set up there and there wasn’t much traffic or many lookie loos when I was there. It was quiet as there are no power lines, that I remember anyway. It is about 320 miles to W9RM from there.
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Re: DM63
Arne N7KA
Looks like exit at 147 then immediate left onto 1 south. Return to 25N is via same exit 147. Look a GOOGLE MAP
Arne N7KA
On December 23, 2019 at 5:48 PM James Duffey <JamesDuffey@...> wrote:
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Re: DM63
James Duffey
I must confess that I have been remiss in uploading my rover sites to NMVHF.org. I will try to do that in the new year. Here is a site that I have operated from in DM63. It is a pullout in Hwy1 south of Socorro, just before HWY crosses over I25. It is about as close to the northern border of DM63 as you can easily get to from Albuquerque. There is plenty of space to set up there and there wasn’t much traffic or many lookie loos when I was there. It was quiet as there are no power lines, that I remember anyway. It is about 320 miles to W9RM from there.
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I ran a Radio Mobile path calculation and the predicted SNR is about -1dB. That is probably optimistic in NM and winter. None the less it indicates it is a workable path. You might be able to make it on CW. In comparison, the water tower at TorC site has a calculated SNR of +1 dB. The McDonalds parking lot calculated SNR is -20dB. The limiting terrain is at W9RM’s end. These SNRs are probably high by 5 to 10dB. FT8 should work better at those distances than meteor scatter. With meteor scatter and no antenna elevation, one end or the other may be better off pointing 180 degrees off the direct path and working meteors off the back. I hope this helps. -Duffey KK6MC James Duffey KK6MC Cedar Crest NM
On Dec 23, 2019, at 16:31, Bill <bill4070@...> wrote:
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Re: DM63
Bill
The NMVHF.org website shows, under the "reference" pulldown some good operating spots for rovers and portable operators. Scott, Steve and Jim identified 3 good operating spots. I would ask each of you to capture this info in the format shown on the website for future operators. We made good use of this info, as it was, during the 2017 contest year when the Central States VHF Conference was held in Albuquerque. There were many operators who decided to stay in the area and operate the August contest using info from the website. We got some good feedback about documented operating spots and how easy it was for someone unfamiliar with the area to plan and execute their contesting activities. So, that's why we have that info available and I would like to encourage everyone with "tribal knowledge" to contribute to that info published on our website. When complete, just forward that info to Mike WB2FKO for upload to the website. Thanks a bunch, Bill W7QQ
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 9:51 AM Keith Morehouse <w9rm@...> wrote:
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Re: January VHF contest roving plans?
Keith Morehouse
I will be "in the chair" as much as possible up here in the wilds of DM58 - supporting whomever goes out roving and stays in range. 6 through 432 with high power and decent antennas... -W9RM Keith J Morehouse Managing Partner Calmesa Partners G.P. Olathe, CO
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 11:19 PM John Klem <klemjf@...> wrote: Anyone have plans yet for roving during the January contest? I expect to be a bit more agile this time around, but haven't figured out where I'm going. I'd be happy to coordinate to maximize grid coverage.
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Re: DM63
Keith Morehouse
Jim, that's good info for future VHF contesting and should be stored somewhere - the same with K5TA's and N2IC's descriptions.. On the NMVHF web site, there are descriptions of hot spots in many different grids. It would be pretty neat if more people could use the format already presented there and write up grid spots they are familiar with. In this particular instance, pretty much any reasonable location will work for meteor scatter. Actually, at this close distance (DM63 to DM58), elevating antennas up to 5-10 degrees above the horizon would enhance the path, although I can't do this at my end on 6. However, Rovers should keep this in mind. The display screen of WSJT & WSJT-X, which is the program must everybody uses when running M/S now-a-days, actually has an elevation number displayed, which is simply calculated on the distance between you and who you're trying to work. -W9RM Keith J Morehouse Managing Partner Calmesa Partners G.P. Olathe, CO
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 7:27 PM KC7QY <kc7qy@...> wrote:
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