On June 13, 2019 at 6:32 AM Ed <n5jeh@...> wrote:

Good copy this morning on 144.150  msk144

 

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ED  N5JEH   DM65RD

 

From: Mike WB2FKO
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 11:06 PM
To: nmvhf@groups.io
Subject: [nmvhf] DM47

 

FYI: VHF grid chasers interested in (rare) grid DM47 can try to catch

W7D there in the early morning hours on Thursday 12 June. They are

running 1 kW on 6 and 2 with big antennas and can be worked in DM65 on

USB. Look for them on 144.200 and 50.180 (alternate 50.185) and FT8

50.313. Also on MSK144 50.260 and MSK144 144.150 although they are

probably too close for meteor scatter in most of NM.

 

Mike WB2FKO

 

 

 

 

 

FYI: VHF grid chasers interested in (rare) grid DM47 can try to catch

W7D there in the early morning hours on Thursday 12 June. They are

running 1 kW on 6 and 2 with big antennas and can be worked in DM65 on

USB. Look for them on 144.200 and 50.180 (alternate 50.185) and FT8

50.313. Also on MSK144 50.260 and MSK144 144.150 although they are

probably too close for meteor scatter in most of NM.

Mike WB2FKO

On June 10, 2019 at 10:18 AM James Duffey <JamesDuffey@...> wrote:


Let’s have an informal VHF lunch this 1200 Friday, June 14 at Garcia’s 3601 Juan Tabo. Let me know if you think you will come so I can give them a head count if there will be a large or semi large group. - Duffey

James Duffey KK6MC
Cedar Crest NM

Sunday morning, when I was in DM54 on Highway 117, I pointed the beams your way and called several times. Then, when I was returning from there, a convoy of Forest Service/Hot Shot vehicles passed me and I wondered if you had gotten called out. Hope Field Day and CQ WW VHF will be better. - Duffey

James Duffey KK6MC

Cedar Crest NM

On Jun 11, 2019, at 18:42, Steve London <n2ic@...> wrote:

Well, I thought this year would be different.

I am an emergency employee of the US forest service, doing comms work on big forest fires, as needed.

Up until last weekend, it has been a very quiet fire season. Guess what changed around 4 PM on Saturday ? I have been working in Catron county since early Sunday AM.

Don't have my very limited log with me. Made some 6 meter FT8. A few 2 meter SSB. Working W7QQ was a pretty good haul from DM52XT.

Maybe the CQ VHF contest will work.

73,

Steve, N2IC

I would like to try upgrading the NMVHF chat page to a full-featured
slack channel.  Click or copy the link below to do the free sign-up;
suggest using your callsign and first name:

https://join.slack.com/t/newmexicovhf/shared_invite/enQtNjUwNTM0MjczNTM4LTg2MTJmYmY0NmExOWNmODk4ZTYyODhkMjBhMWI1NWY1MzliNjliNTg3NjM5MWVmYmRkY2FlNmZmNDI5Zjc1MTI

If so inclined, there is also a slack app for your smartphone (that
admittedly I have not tried yet) that bypasses the need to be on the
NMVHF website. You'll have direct access anywhere you have cell
coverage. Might be more useful during contests and for alerting people
to Es openings when they are away from email.

This is an experiment with invites sent only to subscribers of the nmvhf
mailing list. Please let me know if you have questions or problems. If
there is a consensus, we can transition from our existing simple and
somewhat buggy web app to slack for a better experience.

Mike WB2FKO

I would like to try upgrading the NMVHF chat page to a full-featured
slack channel.  Click or copy the link below to do the free sign-up;
suggest using your callsign and first name:

https://join.slack.com/t/newmexicovhf/shared_invite/enQtNjUwNTM0MjczNTM4LTg2MTJmYmY0NmExOWNmODk4ZTYyODhkMjBhMWI1NWY1MzliNjliNTg3NjM5MWVmYmRkY2FlNmZmNDI5Zjc1MTI

If so inclined, there is also a slack app for your smartphone (that
admittedly I have not tried yet) that bypasses the need to be on the
NMVHF website. You'll have direct access anywhere you have cell
coverage. Might be more useful during contests and for alerting people
to Es openings when they are away from email.

This is an experiment with invites sent only to subscribers of the nmvhf
mailing list. Please let me know if you have questions or problems. If
there is a consensus, we can transition from our existing simple and
somewhat buggy web app to slack for a better experience.

Mike WB2FKO

Start a grid behind KK6MC/R in January and I guarantee you will work several on 1296 from the AZ crew!

I need a bumper sticker:    "We 'heart' rovers"

- Jay N1AV

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 8:53 PM Scott K5TA <k5ta@...> wrote:

After a few years “roving” from county to county in the NMQP, I decided it would be cool to try real VHF roving.  I almost made it, but time ran out before I was able to fashion a vehicle infrastructure suitable for the antennas I have.  So, for last weekend, I set up a “rover simulator” on my east yard, (in world’s worst VHF QTH, along the river bottom buried in the cottonwoods).  

 

Everything worked perfectly, and my new IC-9700 really performed well.  I was chicken, however, so whenever I transmitted, I disconnected all the antennas for the *other* bands.  Not that it really affected my score, since the activity on 144 and 432 was pretty thin.  Didn’t really need to rx on main and sub receivers simultaneously.  Never managed to find a single Q on 1296. 

 

Not a serious or full-time effort in any way – mainly a “teaching moment” – self-education.

 

Nice to work Duffey at all of his stops (but not exactly all band/stops).

 

Onward and upward for future events.

 

-Scott K5TA

 

 

 

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Well, I thought this year would be different.

I am an emergency employee of the US forest service, doing comms work on big forest fires, as needed.

Up until last weekend, it has been a very quiet fire season. Guess what changed around 4 PM on Saturday ? I have been working in Catron county since early Sunday AM.

Don't have my very limited log with me. Made some 6 meter FT8. A few 2 meter SSB. Working W7QQ was a pretty good haul from DM52XT.

Maybe the CQ VHF contest will work.

73,

Steve, N2IC

OK Jon Thanks

James Duffey KK6MC

Cedar Crest NM

On Jun 11, 2019, at 18:00, Jonathan Fox <w0amt@...> wrote:

Count me in for Friday lunch

73, Jon

W0AMT

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 10:18 AM James Duffey <JamesDuffey@...> wrote:

Let’s have an informal VHF lunch this 1200 Friday, June 14 at Garcia’s 3601 Juan Tabo. Let me know if you think you will come so I can give them a head count if there will be a large or semi large group. - Duffey

James Duffey KK6MC
Cedar Crest NM

Count me in for Friday lunch

73, Jon

W0AMT

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 10:18 AM James Duffey <JamesDuffey@...> wrote:

Let’s have an informal VHF lunch this 1200 Friday, June 14 at Garcia’s 3601 Juan Tabo. Let me know if you think you will come so I can give them a head count if there will be a large or semi large group. - Duffey

James Duffey KK6MC
Cedar Crest NM

I logged in like it was a whole new account.  From the top menu in the purple side of the screen, I can drop down and scroll right down to the bottom to switch to my other accounts.   It's easier for me to just have two tabs open.

-Bob N3XKB