I had reserved a room back in the spring and then things changed and I let it go. Now, the wife is heading back east over that weekend and I could again go. But, the cheap rooms are gone, it's a 12

Duffey, I'm registered too. My schedule is tight for departure on Thursday so will be driving alone. Save a couple beers for me! (Actually, I've also picked up some NM beer to take along). Jim

OK Bill. How is your dad doing? OK I hope. Let me know when you get back. Is Reita with you? - Duffey James Duffey KK6MC Cedar Crest NM

Dang, I’m going to miss this one. Still in OR. Nice note. Bill W7QQ

If you are on the fence about going to the Central States VHF Society Conference in Wichita July 26 to July 29, while you can register at any time up to and including the conference, if you want to

Listening on frequency with a dipole only. Mike in Gallup DM 55

Tuesday evening, 8 PM, 50.133 MHz.

I plan on rovering in the CQ WW VHF contest -- barring temperatures over 110 or/and wild land fires in S.E. Colorado. All operations will be close in to 38° N and 104° W. SAT #1: DM88bb:

Sorry for cross posting but if you haven't received the Central States Conference announcement here it is. Jim KC7QY ----- Forwarded Message -----

Tuesday evening, 8 PM, 50.133 MHz. Field Day stories? _._,_._,_,_

I was traveling in Eastern WY during this opening. The FM band had solid signals in every slot, I listened to a station in Austin TX for over 45 minutes and from tuning around, there were lots of

Yes. I did work EA8YV as reported. I had been watching a newscast by Tamitha Skov earlier that morning in which she reported that the good propagation we had been experiencing was from a sun spot

I knew there must have been a reason I hadn't submitted it before. Jim KC7QY

Jim, that is great DX but the database is only for QSOs made after 1 Nov 2017. I think if we included legacy QSOs, N5JEH and N7KA would have most of the records! Mike

Mike, I just checked my 6M CW QSO with ON4IQ (JO20ar) from last year. My logging program says 5,258 miles. You might want to confirm the distance. I'm in DM64nb. Contact was 13 June 2017 at 17:58. My

N7KA worked EA8YV the old fashioned way on cw. DX database updated with a new top distance for cw at 5129 miles. I let FT8 run unattended for most of Sunday afternoon and decoded an

Only one station worked here (OH3SR @16:20) Heard by 5 other OH,One LA and 2 PA. But only 1 contact. Keith seems to be in the right spot. Not many EU openings make it down here. Ed N5JEH

Band was open again this morning from DM58, this time mostly high latitude path to Scandinavian countries (LA/OH/SM) with a few northern mainland Europeans thrown in (DK/PA/ON, ect). Band was

GA Keith, Nice work on 6! I'm getting more serious about getting on FT8 and others. I've been through the setup three times now and cannot remember how to get it set up with the K3. I loaded the

..a good morning on 6. Worked a handful of SM's, I's, SV's , a LA, LY, & SV9CVY for a new one. Also heard S5, 9A, EA8, 5B4, CU, CT and a few others. All this with moderately disturbed geomagnetic