As a reminder, the NMVHF Society will hold its required annual meeting in conjunction with the Duke City Hamfest; 1600MDT, Saturday September 21, 2019 in the Bosque Room. One of the items that needs t

I received the following e-mail from N6NB about the theft of the station at W6TAI and subsequently the stolen equipment being offered on e-bay. Please do not purchase the stolen equipment. I have sent

I have 4 sections of Rohn 25 on a hinged base that needs to come down. I have tried contacting N5SDO, but no response. NM5MS was also recommended but no contact info. N5SJ knows a guy out in the Grant

Responding might help keep these stations on the air. -W9RM Keith Morehouse via MotoG **************** From: Paul English englishp@... Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2019, 11:15:47 AM CDT Subject: DOD Bro

(Since my email to the NMVHF group will fail...) For those of you who play Rover in contests, or enjoy portable operation in "exotic" grid squares AND who are also Costco members, there is a Coleman 1

I cannot post via email to nmvhf@groups.io -- I could in the past. I tried several pre-contest schedule postings and the all came back: Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender X-Postfix-Sender: r

Just making sure all have this info.. see below.. Thanks Tom N7GP EX Wa8WZG Microwave Update 2019 Conference registration is now available on line at www.microwaveupdate.org The North Texas Microwave

In 2017, the NMVHF Society contracted Zia Graphics for a limited run of custom, high-quality 60/40 polo shirts. Since then, there has been interest in placing a second order. That will happen no later

Hi all, Jim Potter posted this on Facebook today. It might be of interest to some of you: Sorry for the off topic post, but I figure there are lots of people here who would know what to do with this.

Like the title says...222 & Up ! Starts Saturday at local noon and runs for 24 hours. This is a 'distance challenge' where actual QSO miles are scored, so you need to send your 6 character grid square

OK, I admit that I am less motivated than most of you! Got home Saturday PM to discover any band opening was over. Sunday, bits and pieces. Granted, I only worked all but one contact on 6m SSB. Do you

I stayed pretty close to home for this one: DM75 and DM74 Saturday, and DM55 Sunday. Saturday was not great, although it picked up somewhat later in the day when I was in DM74. I was happy to work a f

Well, there wasn't all that much "action"... The 2M Es early on Saturday afternoon was nice -- -- which caused some confusion in my paper logging when the 2M Es covered some of the same grids I was al

Wow...what a difference a few hundred miles makes. After seeing some comments stations not that far back east, I feel like I was in a different country for this contest. This was, by far, the worst CQ

Anyone seriously operating this weekends contest and using FT8 probably had this happen. You're cruising .313 looking for those new mults or whatever, you see someone CQing WITHOUT the word TEST in th

The CQ WW VHF Contest is this weekend: < https://cqww-vhf.com/ > This is 6M and 2M only, so things are less hectic than the ARRL contests. You can also submit a single band entry, that is a log entry

W7QQ has graciously invited me to operate at his station for a multiop effort, so I will not be out roving. It has been a long time since I operated a fixed station seriously in a VHF contest, so this

Made a couple of single-hop Es QSOs on 6m tonight. Can confirm the calling frequency is 50.318 MHz. It's startling how quickly the QSOs happen -- only takes about 20 seconds! Band was wide open, but t

So, it seems the brain surgeons responsible for WSJTX have released the new version of the program that includes FT4, less then one week before the CQWW-VHF contest. This happened once before, with a

Seeing several dozen beacons in upper midwest. Signals strong. Possible EU extension. KG5THG/r is in rare DM90 grid on meteor scatter - 50.265 Good Luck - see you in CQWW VHF contest next weekend. -W9