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

6 is open to Carib and PY-land from DM58 Also, KG5THG/p in EL08 is on 50.313 FT8 - rare grid -W9RM Keith J Morehouse Managing Partner Calmesa Partners G.P. Olathe, CO

Congratulations to the NM VHF Society on its fine showing in the NM QSO Party. Among the achievements for the club: Highest-scoring club Most counties activated 3 of the top 4 single-op scores Top mob

K5N expedition to DL79 on now - 50.313 FT8 1st sequence Good copy on ionoscatter in DM58 -W9RM Keith J Morehouse Managing Partner Calmesa Partners G.P. Olathe, CO

I have asked for a table at the CSVHF swap night with the notion to promote the NMVHF society and the Worked All NM grids. I was thinking of putting together a small display including a NM map with al

Greetings -- The 2019 New Mexico QSO Party, which took place last April, was another great success. Hams from all over New Mexico, the United States, and the world took to HF and 6 meters for a day of

I will be presenting an introduction to VHF operation, mostly 6M, at the Albuquerque DX Association meeting this Wednesday, June 26. You do not need to be a member to attend. All are welcome. The meet

K9YR was kind enough to forward these recordings of me in the June VHF contest from DM66. K9YR is in EN52. Conditions were very good. - Duffey KK6MC James Duffey KK6MC Cedar Crest NM

Where I live, EVERY contact on 2M and above is DX. There may be 5-10 local QSOs to be made, but many of them are only available because I moved them from 6. The closest concentration of 'above 6M ops'

The results writeup for the January 2019 VHF Contest are now on line: < https://contests.arrl.org/ContestResults/2019/Jan-VHF-2019-FinalFullResults.pdf > The digital modes, in particular FT8, played a

This is from the Pack Rats mailing list, so some of you have probably already seen it. I’m wondering if Duffey has similar stories to tell. -Bruce Rover Challenge #162 It has been a long first day of

Sounds like everyone had a fun time last weekend! Unfortunately, HAMCOM is scheduled the same weekend, why I don't know. This has always been an issue discussed in the Texas VHF groups. If anyone need