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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

I have had a request from K9JK for help by the NMVHF Society in transcribing paper logs from the January VHF contest to electronic logs. K9JK is responsible for processing contest logs for the January

Please submit your logs for the January VHF contest by Wednesday 2059 (local). No score is too small to submit. If you need help submitting your log, please contact W7QQ or myself and we can assist. J

I noticed that there was no club information present with the CQWW VHF on-line databases, so I contacted the new 'boss', K9JK, and requested that he look into making it available. It turns out the inf

ARRL January VHF Contest Class: Rover Operating Time (hrs): 10 Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 6: 47 9 2: 57 13 222: 31 10 432: 58 12 903: 7 3 1.2: 24 6 2.3: 3.4: 5.7: 10G: 24G: ---------

Good question Mike. If I had not operated 902 to 1296 my score would have been about 14600, so about a third of my score is attributable to operating on 902 and 1296. It is not so much the points gene

ARRL JANUARY VHF CONTEST 6: 74Q x 60M 2: 28Q x 26M TOTAL SCORE: 8772 January - say no more. No openings....well, maybe one for 5 minutes on 6 to TX...no enhancement...January. Now that WSJT-X co-exist

First time in this particular contest…just had a monitor on while doing other stuff around the house. 50 watts and 4L @25’ Analysis of your uploaded log: Contest: ARRL-VHF-JAN Call Sign: K5TA Category

My plan for this weekend: Saturday (NM time): DM85GX Sunday: DM86JP I have 6 m (100 W, Moxon), 2 m (80 W, 6-element yagi), 70 cm (5 W, 11-element yagi). SSB, CW, FT8, MSK144, FM. I'd be happy to try j

We are required to submit a list of eligible entrants for ARRL contests. All eligible members must reside in the NM ARRL section, so your 6 digit grid square is used for that verification. I submitted

Hello all. We will be QRV from Gallup, NM, DM 55 pm during the contest. 2 Meters has twin 12 element beams at 60' and 100 watts. 432 has 12 elements and for six meters only a dipole. Email or text for

Tom, N7GP/r will be roving in the contest this weekend. His itinerary is below. NM stations with good paths to his rove locations should be able to work him, albeit it with weak signals and perhaps th