Amateur Radio · VHF/UHF · Summits On The Air · Colorado Mountains · Adventure
Don’t forget the Colorado 14er Event is next Sunday. We’ll be operating K0YB from the summit of Pikes Peak. Most likely, we’ll have HF, 6 Meters, 2 Meters, 70 cm and maybe some higher bands. More information on the event here. 73, Bob K0NR
You just have to love VHF contesting….hours of boredom punctuated by the excitement of band openings. Unlike HF contests, you never really know what you are going to get in terms of propagation. So it was with the CQ Worldwide VHF Contest this weekend. It started out really slow on Saturday. I mean really, really, … Read more
The FCC has adopted rule changes to Part 97.113, allowing employees to communicate on behalf of an employer during emergency preparedness drills. I’ve posted several times about this topic, see EmComm Trouble, Time to Change the Rules, FCC Moving Ahead on the topic. The new version of the rules are listed here: § 97.113 Prohibited transmissions. … Read more
The Colorado 14er Event will be held on August 8 this year. This is the premier mountaintopping event for amateur radio. The basic idea is to have fun making ham radio contacts from the 14,000 foot peaks in Colorado. Actually, we’ve started to see some of the 14,000 ft peaks in California on the air, … Read more
I happened to be in Hong Kong on business and wandered around the Kowloon area looking for electronic gadgets. I started noticing several different models of handheld transceivers, some of them marketed as ham radios. I counted at least 10 different brands of equipment, all made in China. A Wouxun radio caught my eye, as … Read more
Here’s a few things flying by on the internetwebz. K3NG announces a new online logging service with some odd characteristics. Quite funny, so check it out. Now this is really interesting: Mark AF6IM did a parachute jump during the June VHF QSO party and made some contacts during his descent. The ARRL rules do not allow … Read more