Montana's Ham Radio Forum

It's fast approaching SRD 2011 :o As before we will be starting Friday evening 5:00pm 12/2/11 running 24hrs if conditions permit at the NWS office for Skywarn Recognition Day. We will try and break our recorded 300+ contacts made last year and if not at least have some in trying :D all are welcome c...

Thanks Ken (w7gmc) for the link to the weather spotter training. Anyone interested in weather spotting please take the online training, I recommend it even if you already have had the training it is a great way to review the material and stay current. It is easy to login and create a user account wh...

Good try a little more current then that year

The NWS station WX7GTF license has been renewed and is currently active.
thanks to the ARRL for assisting with the process, even though it took a little longer than expected we are finally current, active and ready to go.

It's that time of year again!! Hey everyone we will be at the NWS office on Friday 12/3/10 to kick off Skywarn Recognition Day 2010. It starts at 5:00pm and will run for 24hrs. We plan to have the antenna trailer on site and setup. We will be working phone and CW possibly echo link as well depending...

You got it !!

How about in what year did the Weather Service move it's location from the International airport to the current location on Tri Hill Frontage Rd?

Here is a two part quiz....

In what year did cooperative weather observations begin in Great Falls MT ?

and what was the location of the first weather observations in the city of Great Falls ?

Ken
w7wof

I would definately be intereseted in an Extra class study group

Nikki and I are really looking forward to field day this year, will be fun getting her on the air waves. She should get some pretty good pile ups going.
I better hone my logging skills... lol

Ken
w7wof

sounds great to me..... Collette can pull the trailer up if need be, she will have her suburban anyway and she doesnt mind.

that is a great looking card !! put me on the list please
are we going to do special event station again this year??

Looks like N7IKY will be on the air waves now. she did get her new call sign She did a great job on the net Im just glad she is having fun too....

Thanks all for the welcome to Skywarn we are still in a transistion period. I will have more information to post when I get my ducks in a row. As Ken w7gmc stated before if you would like there are a couple of great programs available free from N3FJP http://www.wxspots.com/ one is a weather warning ...

Ok Nikki says (lol) he worked for Bell Telephone and applied in 1915 for the patent

Nikki says it is John Renshaw Carson