Amateur Radio · VHF/UHF · Summits On The Air · Colorado Mountains · Adventure
One of the things that makes a VHF contest so much fun is that you never know how its going to play out. One of the major factors is sporadic-e propagation which is, well, sporadic. Sometimes we get rewarded with decent propagation and sometimes we get completely skunked. In the morning, before the 2012 CQ … Read more
About a year ago, I bought a Yaesu FT-950 transceiver with HF through 50 MHz. I’ve really enjoyed that radio. This weekend I am working the CQ WW VHF Contest and giving it a good workout on 6 Meters. It is set up quite nicely for contesting with a decent receiver, built-in antenna tuner, DSP … Read more
I recently confessed blogged about a not-that-well-executed SOTA (Summits on The Air) activation, in How Not to Do a SOTA Activation. This past weekend, I made another run at it with much better results. Still, I did use a slacker low impact approach to the activation. My hiking partner spouse and I decided to go for … Read more
Monument, Colorado Saturday Sept 29 and Saturday Oct 6 (8 AM to 5 PM) 2012 Location: Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Station 1 Sponsored by the Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Radio Association The Technician license is your gateway to the world-wide excitement of Amateur Radio… Earn your ham radio Technician class radio privileges Pass your FCC amateur radio … Read more
You probably already heard about the terrible wildfire on the west side of Colorado Springs. The fire burned 18,247 acres, destroyed 346 homes and killed 2 people. Here’s a map of how the fire progressed over time. 18,247 acres is a little more than 28 square miles of area burned. Think about a fire that … Read more
Amateur Radio operators from around Colorado will be climbing many of Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountains to set up amateur radio stations in an effort to communicate with other radio amateurs across the state and around the world. The prime operating hours on August 5th are from approximately 9 AM to noon local time (1500 to 1800 … Read more