Just 6 meters for me, and only 5-6 hours. Ended up with about 120 QSOs. Spent more time than that over the weekend building a 6-element 6-meter yagi from wire, rope, and pvc, but that’s a story for an

Well, I thought this year would be different. I am an emergency employee of the US forest service, doing comms work on big forest fires, as needed. Up until last weekend, it has been a very quiet fire

I would like to try upgrading the NMVHF chat page to a full-featured slack channel. Click or copy the link below to do the free sign-up; suggest using your callsign and first name: https://join.slack.

After a few years “roving” from county to county in the NMQP, I decided it would be cool to try real VHF roving. I almost made it, but time ran out before I was able to fashion a vehicle infrastructur

A quick reminder to check these out. I did some antenna work before the test last week. Had to install the anchor (a very large spike) for one of the guys. Found the mast and all three VHF antennas on

Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 6: 183 72 2: 46 9 222: 26 5 432: 32 7 ------------------- Total: 345 93 Total Score = 34,845 Thanks to the Sunday evening Es, I had the best contest here in several

Last March Bill W7QQ wrote about his 76GHz adventures in AZ with mw luminaries W5LUA and VE4MA. Tony W8ZR has an article in the 2nd Quarter 2019 issue of DUBUS detailing the same operating activity. P

Yes, Saturday was grim, especially in DM83. Wickedly hot and windy. I heard a total of 3 NM stations: K5AM (sometimes strong); WB2FKO (a couple weak decodes); and AI5I, God bless him, who somehow mana

Pass the tissues... June 2019 ARRL VHF contest a bust for me. While perhaps not as exciting as Duffey's May-June road-trip, I finished a 10 day approximately 3500 mile road-trip Thursday PM. Then, did

Right now (2230Z), the band is open to CT3/EA8 from DM58, there are guys calling and working JA's and W7D from rare grid confluence DM18/19/28/29 is pounding in. All this on one tidy digital 'channel'

6m was exasperatingly bad on Saturday. Plenty of puny openings coming in from all directions that were too weak for ssb and too short for FT8. Propagation was in and then gone in less than 30 seconds.

After a pathetic start to the contest (no 6M openings and a myriad of self-inflicted computer problems), the contest turned itself around on Sunday and provided a couple of decent 6M runs. When I went

I have just returned from a 7 week/7000 mile road trip, so the last thing I feel like doing is spending more time sitting in a car, but, what the heck? I will set up the rover in the morning, so not s

I need to verify my 222 transverter is good. 73, Jon W0AMT-- Jonathan Fox 505-270-5835

Okay....you guys talked me into it. I am now operative on 2 meter CW and SSB, with 100 watts and 11 elements, horizontal. Will try to get FT8 working. Would be nice to know if it is working before the

I will be on 6 meters, CW, SSB and FT8. I could borrow some 2 meter equipment, but there is very little incentive for me to bother here on the eastern edge of DM52. I did this several years in a row i

It appears all is a go on the bottom 4 bands this weekend. Hope to hear a few NMVHF guys, more hopefully, above 6M. I will try to leave one radio on 144.200 and keep one eye on the SDR display while w

Will be QRV 6/2/222 (ssb, cw, digital) and 440 FM. It's Es season, so anticipate spending the majority of time looking for multipliers on 6m. I will monitor the chat page located at nmvhf.org for anyo

...going on now (1330Z). Dozens of CW beacons visable in SDR waterfall, plenty of SSB sigs, single and double hop east -W9RM Keith J Morehouse Managing Partner Calmesa Partners G.P. Olathe, CO

To ALL... I will be starting out this Saturday at beginning of the contest at the Junction on DM32 and Dm33....then moving to DM 42 and DM 43.. I plan on making this loop twice to pick up everyone.. S