Montana's Ham Radio Forum

Can someone contact Don, W8UZ @ Donald.jordan@frontier.com. to set up a sked for 160m CW?

Ken, W7GMC

Great Article on the installation and usage of Anderson Power Pole connectors.

73,
Ken

Seems as though not all the information on Aux Comm is being properly deceminated. Auxillary Communications will not, I repeat, will not replace ARES! This is right from Montana State DES Office. They are working on a letter to help put out the fire with ARES and Aux Comm. NOW....The other issue peo...

Jim, Thanks for the response. The interference did disappear after that single night. It was unbelieable to have a 40 over signal on FM, LSB and AM with the same dead carrier interference. It was steady with no deviation. But has since disappeared. Like I sayed, seemed as though someone's radio was ...

Anyone experiencing are heard the carrier noise on 3.912.5 on Oct 21st?

On my Hustler 6-BTV, I have it nearly 40 over S9. AE7HW has it near the NWS Office at 20 over S9. Even when attenuated, its 20 over S9.

The Amateur Radio Emergency Service ® (ARES ® ) consists of licensed amateurs who have voluntarily registered their qualifications and equipment for communications duty in the public service when disaster strikes. Every licensed amateur, regardless of membership in ARRL or any other local or nationa...

Class date has passed, but 3 more classes are being worked on when funding is secured. This is copied from the "Heard across Montana" newsletter from an electronic newsletter for public safety. Bi-Weekly Newsletter: http://pssb.mt.gov/ham.mcpx Amateur Radio Operators Urged to Mark the Date...

N3FJP has developed two pieces of software for weather enthusiasts. The first app is called "WX Spots 2.4" The software allows users to filter warnings, feed home weather station data and chat with other users. This is a great tools to use during severe weather, especially when you pull th...

KJ4ERJ has developed a new Windows based APRS mapping program. The software uses open source mapping from Open Streets and if you download the National Weather Services shape files for zonal and county warning, you'll see those warning highlighted on the map and info on the warning. Great applicatio...

I took the entire course and at the end it asked if I wanted to sign up as a spotter. I said yes, but haven't heard anything since. Is there something else I need to do to get signed up as an "official" spotter? Emory, There is nothing else to do. Some area's do assign a spotter number, b...

I have created and posted my personnal QTH weather from my Zephyr Instruments TD-1000PWS station. These stations are very resonable and close on accuracy. I use a free program called "Cumulus" from http://www.sandysoft.com to calibrate the output to accuracy compared to the Great Falls NWS...

If you have Windows Vista or 7, you have built-in speech-to-text control. Add a microphone and spend about 30 minutes on the tutorial and you can talk to your computer; have it open programs, write e-mails, etc., all by talking to it. It's pretty good actually. For full-time use though, Naturally S...

Found a PowerPoint authored by WC8EC on completing and handling traffic via the ARRL RadioGram. File was saved as a PDF for viewing by all. I'm no expert at Traffic Handling and Todd, AE7V would like to address the lack of understanding in handling traffic. We all could learn and use some practice i...

The Emergency Email & Wireless Network, offers a free notification service via email, cell phone nand pager. http://www.emergencyemail.org/i0.asp?src=&s=MT To sign up for Great Falls Emergency notification system, which gives you a text notification or email: http://www.greatfallsmt.net/peop...