For many of us, one of our first exposures to ham radio was listening to WWV. Many of us still use it as a propagation indicator, a simple frequency standard, an introduction to others of the usefulne

I'm having an ongoing problem with burning up coax cable feedlines. This has been almost entirely on 6m, where I have been doing the majority of my operating the past few years and primarily during th

Greetings — For the first time in its 37 year history, the ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC) comes to New Mexico, and will occur September 14-16 at the Sheraton Albuquerque Airport hot

I plan on rovering in the ARRL SEPT VHF contest. For me the September contest has always been the triumph of hope over experience. :-) All operations will be close in to 38° N and 104° W. I am a (very

I finished the 222 transverter kit this past week and did some initial setup. Per the article on the NMVHF website by W7QQ and KK6MC I checked the gate bias and found it at 2.5 volts. I adjusted it up

I will have 6, 2, and 432 via an FT-817 and 222 via a Ukrainian transverter. I will be barefoot on all bands except 222 where I will have about 20 watts via a RFC amp on loan from Duffey. I will start

Sorry for the late notice, but I have been traveling a lot, just got back from a 4,000 + mile road trip and was not sure I was up to roving this weekend. I decided to, and with a limited route, so her

Saturday was grim. Sunday was probably grimmer. My ONLY front range ("regional") QSOs were with Ken, W0ETT, Duncan, WE7L, and George, AB0YM/r. Those three folks made up 84% of my total contest QSOs. T

Not too much excitement during the September VHF test this year. Conditions on pretty much every band/mode I have up seemed average to poor. Maybe some of these comments will help someone. Meteors wer

Tuesday evening, 8 pm, 50.133 MHz. We've had a good run on 6 meters this summer with lots of interesting discussions and some occasional sporadic E openings, but we'll probably be moving back to 10 or

Some good, some not (I’m sure they were much better in person). Here they are: https://www.sixmeterbbq.com/files-2/ 73, Bruce

Duffey, Congratulations on NM Ham of the Year, announced tonight at the Socorro Hamfest, NM State Convention banquet. Jim KC7QY

Hi guys, I have a 2 meter transverter (28MHz IF) up for grabs if anybody needs one. It's the current offering from transverters-store.com with the internal attenuator board. Power cable with Anderson

This is certainly not a new discovery, but it's good to re-visit certain things once in a while. One of the problems with using any foamed or micro-porous Teflon dielectric coax cable (like LMR and ot

Greetings — The fifth annual New Mexico TechFest, an ARRL-sanctioned operating specialty event organized by Rocky Mountain Ham Radio - New Mexico, will take place Saturday, February 23, 2019. TechFest

Call for Papers and Presentations for the second Super VHF Conference, April 26-28, 2019, in Sterling, VA, near Washington, DC. The the second Super VHF Conference is jointly sponsored by Packrats, NE

Strong Es opening from DM58 to mid EM6/7/8 now. 1st good winter Es opening heard here this season -W9RM Keith J Morehouse Managing Partner Calmesa Partners G.P. Olathe, CO

I had my band-monitoring SDR up on the 2nd computer screen and was tipped off by the big bunch of beacons. I saw a couple of guys on FT8, all running version 1.9 or earlier, so I don't know who they w

The following is from N5RZ, who is doing the results write-up for the ARRL September VHF contest. Up until now, there has never really been a official position on how to log QSO's made using any WSJT

Anybody have a Standard HT ? I just bought a 8-cell AA battery holder for Standard models C228A, C528A, C628A, HX190, HX240 and possibly others that used Standards RBP-120, CNB-152 or CNB242 batteries