FYI - From a message sent out by Bill W5YEJ on the repeater owners group. "Per request of the U.S. Army the FCC had ordered that we vacate the 420 to 430 MHz segment of the 70cm band to make way for a

Greetings — The 2021 New Mexico QSO Party takes place Saturday, April 10 from 8:00am MDT until 8:00pm MDT, and all Hams across New Mexico are invited to participate. Amateur radio operators from acros

The CSVHF board of Directors met last night and voted, not unanimously, not to hold the CSVHF conference this year. It is uncertain at this time if a virtual event will be held in its stead. I don’t k

Greetings — Rocky Mountain Ham Radio (RMHAM) launched a “pico-balloon” from Albuquerque this morning in conjunction with today’s New Mexico TechFest event. A pico-balloon is a 3 foot mylar party ballo

Greetings — There is still time to register for the 2021 New Mexico TechFest, which takes place this Saturday, February 27. This year’s speaker lineup is outstanding (check out the attached PDF file f

Greetings — The 2021 New Mexico TechFest is scheduled just about two weeks from now...Saturday, February 27. This year’s speaker lineup is outstanding (check out the attached PDF file which contains t

Greetings — This note is to announce that the presentation lineup for this year’s New Mexico TechFest has been released. In addition, online registration for the event is now OPEN! Please visit https:

I'm just sayin', if you hope to log DM87 (or DM77) in the three Summer VHF contests, you'd better display rudimentary voice or cw skills. 73 Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | W3DHJ | W3DHJ | https://W3DHJ.ne

I think it's humorous that a lot of folks still think there is a HIGH POWER category as a subset of the 3 BAND class. But, it brings up a question. I, personally, would be all over a category like 3 B

To ALL.. I will starting out noon local in DM42 then DM43, DM33, DM34,then DM44 and DM45..return same route back in DM32 late evening Saturday. I will be spending the night in DM32 and DM33 and DM42 r

Here's what I'm thinking: Saturday 1900Z DM76xv (Truchas Overlook) 2200Z DM66wa Sunday 1500Z DM74xv 1900Z DM84at 2300Z DM85fa I am not particularly attached to this plan, so if someone else wants to t

“Q65 will enable stations with a modest Yagi and 100 W or more and to work one another on 6 meters at distances up to ~1600 kilometers at most times, in dead band conditions.” More here: http://www.ar

Greetings — Rocky Mountain Ham Radio - New Mexico (RMHAM) is pleased to announce its seventh annual New Mexico TechFest, an ARRL-sanctioned operating specialty event, on Saturday, February 27, 2021. T

Does anybody on the list work at AFRL ? I have a question about a research project (that's been made public..) that might be of interest to VHFers. Feel free to contact me direct at w9rm@... if you fe

I have a 432 cavity amplifier that is ready to go. It's tuned, proven and has QSOs on it. It's a single Eimac 8874 in a Varian cavity and will do 475W out with about 20W of drive. This is a linear amp

Greetings — For anyone interested, I created an email reflector called “ABQ-Ham” on groups.io. This reflector will replace the existing one on Yahoogroups which will down on December 15 when Yahoo shu

Haven't seen this mentioned here yet. The results for the 2020 ARRL June VHF Contest are in December's QST, and several NMVHF folks won their categories in the Rocky Mountain Division: AA5PR Limited R

Is there anyone in the club who's a authorized VUCC card checker ? -W9RM Keith Morehouse via MotoG

The main thing FSK441 has going for it is SINGLE TONE. Various literature can point to some advantages and some disadvantages of each mode (MSK144 v FSK441), mostly focusing on 2-3 dB more or less sen

FYI all. 1:07 PM SEE: http://aprs.mennolink.org Showing possible enhancement into AZ at the 144 MHz frequency. - Jay N1AV