My wife and I drove / hiked up South Baldy Peak on Sunday, June 9, 2019 for the VHF contest. I had 6, 2, 222, and 432 via an FT-817 and a Ukrainian transverter. I made 38 QSOs with the majority on 6 d

The crew stopped by on their way back east, yesterday afternoon. -W9RM Keith Morehouse via MotoG

So far these people have indicated they are coming to lunch tomorrow: KK6MC N5SJ W7QQ WB2FKO KG5FHU KC7QY W0AMT N7KA N5EPA You are free to come, even if you don’t let me know, I ust wanted a head coun

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 gro

6M DXer K1TOL worked W7D in DM47 for his next-to-last FFMA grid. The only one he currently needs is DM86. Is there someone on here with a 3 or 5 el beam and 100W+ who might be able to head that way fo

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

Just 6 meters for me, and only 5-6 hours. Ended up with about 120 QSOs. Spent more time than that over the weekend building a 6-element 6-meter yagi from wire, rope, and pvc, but that’s a story for an

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

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.

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 infrastructur

A quick reminder to check these out. I did some antenna work before the test last week. Had to install the anchor (a very large spike) for one of the guys. Found the mast and all three VHF antennas on

Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 6: 183 72 2: 46 9 222: 26 5 432: 32 7 ------------------- Total: 345 93 Total Score = 34,845 Thanks to the Sunday evening Es, I had the best contest here in several

Last March Bill W7QQ wrote about his 76GHz adventures in AZ with mw luminaries W5LUA and VE4MA. Tony W8ZR has an article in the 2nd Quarter 2019 issue of DUBUS detailing the same operating activity. P

Yes, Saturday was grim, especially in DM83. Wickedly hot and windy. I heard a total of 3 NM stations: K5AM (sometimes strong); WB2FKO (a couple weak decodes); and AI5I, God bless him, who somehow mana

Pass the tissues... June 2019 ARRL VHF contest a bust for me. While perhaps not as exciting as Duffey's May-June road-trip, I finished a 10 day approximately 3500 mile road-trip Thursday PM. Then, did

Right now (2230Z), the band is open to CT3/EA8 from DM58, there are guys calling and working JA's and W7D from rare grid confluence DM18/19/28/29 is pounding in. All this on one tidy digital 'channel'

6m was exasperatingly bad on Saturday. Plenty of puny openings coming in from all directions that were too weak for ssb and too short for FT8. Propagation was in and then gone in less than 30 seconds.

After a pathetic start to the contest (no 6M openings and a myriad of self-inflicted computer problems), the contest turned itself around on Sunday and provided a couple of decent 6M runs. When I went

I have just returned from a 7 week/7000 mile road trip, so the last thing I feel like doing is spending more time sitting in a car, but, what the heck? I will set up the rover in the morning, so not s

I need to verify my 222 transverter is good. 73, Jon W0AMT-- Jonathan Fox 505-270-5835