N5SJ will be in town Thursday, so I thought it would be a good time to get together for lunch and talk about things VHF. We will meet at Pho Thien An restaurant, 7010 Central SE at 1130. This is the r

Passing this along in case some of you might not have listened to it yet: https://www.blubrry.com/arrl_the_doctor_is_in/40986137/life-above-50-mhz/

For those of you who missed my APRS spots in the January contest, I have found the problem and fixed it. I was accessing the APRS internet gateway on the wrong port. Thanks to Jim, KC7QY for pointing

Fellow New Mexico Hams -- The 2019 New Mexico QSO Party takes place Saturday, April 13 from 8:00am MDT until 8:00pm MDT, and all Hams across New Mexico are invited to participate. Amateur radio operat

W7QQ (with N0IO) has provided a riveting account of a recent microwave operating event that took place in Arizona. Their story with link to an accompanying video can be found on the NM VHF website: ht

Another experienced ham dies from a tower fall - PV8ADI ! That's two high profile deaths in 6 months (W0AIH was the other). I heard about this today and offered this to my 'other' club group. I though

To All.. Just testing my email to make sure all is good and Looking forward to working Many of you in the coming contest and VHF season.. Cu you on the Bands,, Tom N7GP ex WA8WZG

Here is my itinerary for the NM QSO Party. I will have a driver, so if propagation is good, you should be able to find me pretty much anytime around the suggested frequencies. I will also have APRS so

Greetings — The 2019 New Mexico QSO Party will help fill the HF and 6 meter bands next Saturday, April 13. Will you and/or your amateur radio club be joining the fun with hams across New Mexico, the n

N5SJ/M itinerary - NM QSO Party Here is our itinerary for the NM QSO Party Saturday. Mike N5SJ will operate while Ken, KG5IDN will drive the Cool Bus. If propagation is good, you should be able to fin

I'll probably be operating at home, but I'm still toying with the idea of driving west to activate San Juan, Catron, and other rare-ish counties. I'd love to see NMVHFS make an effort to win this cont

Snowing a bit here but not bad and some ice. If weather gets worse as we travel north, I will change my route and go south, so my route may change from what I published. Look at APRS.fi for my locatio

A massive B3.5 flare there at 1930Z http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/goes-xray-flux-6-hour.gif HI!HI! ES 73 Jonesy -- <pre> Marvin L Jones | W3DHJ | W3DHJ | https://W3DHJ.net/ Pueblo, Colorado | @

Did any of you try the NM QSO Party this weekend? Was there any activity at all on 6 meters? Did you dip into the HF waters? -Bruce AA5B

AA5B @ home, Bernalillo County, low power CW: 214 QSOs SSB: 258 QSOs Multipliers: 63 (states + provinces + DX countries + NM counties) Score: 86,436 Propagation wasn't good, there were 2 periods of hi

"FT4 is an experimental digital mode designed specifically for radio contesting. Like FT8, it uses fixed-length transmissions, structured messages with formats optimized for minimal QSOs, and strong f

Greetings — This is a friendly reminder, for those of you who participated in the recent 2019 New Mexico QSO Party, that logs are due (received by email if electronic, or postmarked if hard-copy) by t

Today is the last day to submit NM QSO Party logs. **Even if you had only 1 or 2 QSOs, your log is important!** Need help getting it in the right format? Just let me know. You can send me just the QSO

Hello all - I only need DM63, 73 & 83 for 6M Worked all NM Grids. All of these should be easily worked on meteor scatter if the NM end is running a small beam and 100W. Can anybody help me out with th

I put up my 6-mtr yagi antenna this morning, but now I’m thinking about moving it. It’s on a tripod on my roof, about 30 feet off the ground (good) but only 15 feet from and directly pointed into dens