Whoa! I just noticed that my 28,014 points moved the NMVHFS from what would've been 4th place up to 2nd place! Little Ol' me -- old school! Happy New Year to you all!! Jonesy -- <pre> Marvin L Jones |

Results are posted in the January issue and the CQ website. Of note is the club competition: NM VHF Society placed second! Club Name # Entries Score SOCIETY OF MIDWEST CONTESTERS .....................

Here is my preliminary itinerary for the January VHF contest. As has become my tradition, I am going south and west for the January contest. I have had enough of scraping 6 inches of snow off the rove

I'm planning on a limited rover expedition this weekend, probably to DM85 and DM86. Anyone care to suggest if there are other NM grids less likely to be active (on 6 m, 2 m, 70 cm)? My antenna setup w

6m and 10m, coast to coast, on Wednesday evening. From here in south-central Texas, I worked AI5I and K9VSW in NM. For a short while, 6m was also open from the western US to Australia! VK4MA cold-call

Greetings — If you are interested in providing a presentation, posterboard, or demonstration at the 2019 New Mexico TechFest next February, this is a kind reminder to submit your proposal(s) before th

The GEMINIDS, one of the more vigorous showers of the year, was forecast to peak this morning at 1230Z. I always try to be on during the peak of a big shower, since you don't really know what might ha

I don't know how good these are or what the ultimate output level is, but this is the frequency you need if you want to stabilize your older DEMI (or whoever) 144 MHz transverter. They are being sold

Both VE4ARM/b (EN09) and VE4VHF/b (EN19) S9 into DM58 on sporadic E. -W9RM Keith J Morehouse Managing Partner Calmesa Partners G.P. Olathe, CO

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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