Amateur Radio · VHF/UHF · Summits On The Air · Colorado Mountains · Adventure
I am getting ready for the Colorado 14er Event tomorrow morning. Here’s the brief description from the www.14er.org web site: Amateur Radio Fun in the Colorado Mountains Sunday, August 7, 2011 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 … Read more
I was dorking around on the web getting prepared for the Colorado 14er Event this year (August 7) and came across some of Steve WG0AT’s goathiker videos. Steve does a great job of capturing the fun of being out on the trail with goats and radios (what a combo!) Here’s one of the best videos, … Read more
The Colorado 14er Event will be held on August 7 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
Here’s a reminder that the ARRL June VHF QSO Party (AKA The June Contest) is coming up next weekend. This is a great opportunity to have fun operating the VHF and higher bands. Here’s some info I sent out to our local club (sorry, it is a little specific to our area but you may … Read more
I recently received this question via email from Dave N0MUA: Bob, I ran across your pictures mountain topping on Colorado peaks, thought if anyone could answer this it would be you and your group. We run on 146.52 here in Coffeyville KS. and a group of us have brought up the question how far east can … Read more
For the 2011 ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes, I repeated the tradition of doing a winter assault on Mount Herman (DM79) on Saturday afternoon. As in past years, Joyce (K0JJW) joined me on the hike, but we also had some other folks along to make for quite a party on the summit this year. Stu (W0STU) … Read more