Half the battle was just keeping equipment and operator cool enough to get through the weekend. The only major failure was the battery booster, which popped under the stress Saturday afternoon. Propag

All-in-all it was a wretched weekend for rovering in S.E. Colorado. But, there were several bright spots -- among them was working two NM VHF Society ops: John, AA5PR/R -- twice on 2M CW from each of

From: Scott Davis <scottk5ta@...> Date: July 19, 2020 at 8:39:52 PM MDT To: nmbrc@groups.io, nmvhf@groups.io Subject: K5TA CQ VHF  Chasing rovers is fun. Big TNX to AA5PR/R. I always seem to find him

My plans for this weekend are pretty simple: DM76va Saturday 1800-0100Z (maybe later if I'm being productive) DM63qv Sunday 1400-2100 Z 6m 100 W + Moxon 2m 100 W + 6 el. All modes. I'll occasionally p

Jim KC7QY ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Terry Price <terry@...> To: "vhf@..." <vhf@...>; vhfcontesting@... <vhfcontesting@...>; "newsvhf@..." <newsvhf@...> Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020, 10:37:17

Duffey, That was one hell of a write-up you did for the 2020 ARRL JAN VHF! I can't even imagine the amount of time and effort that you put into that! I thank you. I'm sure we all thank you. Good on yo

The expanded results writeup for the ARRL January 2020 VHF contest Is available here: < https://contests.arrl.org/ContestResults/2020/Jan-VHF-2020-FinalFullResults.pdf > Congratulations to Rocky Mount

Are there points to be had on FM simplex during the contests? If so, what's the etiquette for getting them? I suspect that calling "CQ contest" on 146.52 might not fly.... John AA5PR

Greetings from EL89. The permanent home station is still many months from completion, so my plan for the June contest was to participate in the K5QE multi-op in EM31. Current travel conditions made th

Duffey (KK6MC) and I operated Field Day style from a site about 8 miles south of Tijeras, in the NE corner of DM64. It took 3 or 4 trips out there to get stuff set up, and 2 more to take everything ba

Over the last year or so I put effort into improving the antenna configuration on my rover to reduce setup and teardown times, so this time around felt I could visit 7 grids during the contest. That w

Anybody have any experience with lightning enhancement on 2M or above ? I knew such a thing existed but I've never experienced it until Saturday. I had the 2nd radio sitting on 144.200 while I was loo

Greetings — I noticed this about a recent 2 hour long 6-meter contest co-hosted by the High Desert Amateur Radio Club and Amateur Radio Caravan Club (link here) …and this about a recent 2 hour long 2-

When I arrived at the upper parking lot at Capulin Volcano the NPS "parking lot" attendant turned out to be a ham, too. Not a shack-on-the-hip guy, either. A full fledged HF and 6M op. Anyway, he want

Greetings — The 2020 New Mexico QSO Party, which took place last April, was a huge success. Hams from all over New Mexico, the United States, and the world took to HF, 6 meters, and — new this year! —

First off, BIG THANKS to AA5PR/r for taking the time to run a 6M scatter sked with me before he started running the contest from DM82. That was an all-time new grid and takes me to 12 to go for FFMA.

AA5B and I will be running a limited multiop from DM64 this weekend for the VHF contest. We will have 6M, 2M, 222MHz, and 432MHz. We will have 500W on 6M to 4element Yagis at 40 ft and my Ts2000 plus

Hi guys, I'd like to participate in the contest this weekend to do an equipment shakedown. I hear there are some locations that I can drive to and setup and make a few Qs, but really have no idea abou

Unfortunately, I won't be home for the contest - I'm working at the Tadpole fire north of Silver City. However, I do have free time. Anyone have a station I can Teamviewer into and do some 6 meter FT8

Hi All, I'll be active from DM66 on 6, 2 and 70cm.I have a great view to the south from east to west. To the north...not so pretty good. The station is just north of Heron Lake state park. Text me at