Amateur Radio · VHF/UHF · Summits On The Air · Colorado Mountains · Adventure
Many hams put up some pretty impressive antenna farms with large towers and big arrays. I have a small tower up at the cabin but it is quite puny (about 30 feet) compared to these more serious stations. I like to check out big antenna installations, especially the big commercial towers, as we travel around … Read more
For the 2019 CQ Worldwide VHF Contest, I did a modest effort on 6 meters and 2 meters using mostly SSB and FT8. I operated from our cabin (DM78av). We had some good sporadic-E propagation on 6m which enabled some long-distance contacts to the east. Then I noticed that 2 meters was also open so … Read more
Closing out 2019, here are the top five blog posts at k0nr.com during the year. Some people may see this as a lazy way of creating one more blog post for the year without much work. This may be true, but I still claim it is a worthy effort to take a look at what … Read more
Black Forest, Colorado Sat Feb 22 and 29 8 AM to 5 PM Black Forest Fire Station intersection Burgess Rd. & Teachout Rd. The Technician license is your gateway to the world-wide excitement of Amateur Radio, and the very best emergency communications capability available! • Earn your ham radio Technician class radio privileges • Pass … Read more
Twitter is such a wonderful source of knowledge and a great place to pick up amateur radio operating tips. I saw this post from Johnny/W5KV, talking about getting a 146.52 sticker for his truck. (146.52 MHz is the 2m National Simplex Calling Frequency.) I’ve written about these stickers here: Get Your Mobile Frequency Sticker On … Read more
Last night, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Amanda/K1DDN on the popular TWiT TV show Ham Nation. We discussed my book, VHF ham radio and SOTA. You can watch the whole episode here or view just my segment below. There’s also a “photo appearance” by Stu/W0STU. Amanda, thanks for having me on the … Read more