Montana's Ham Radio Forum

John Geach VEC Helena, Mt. Just a reminder the Capital City Amateur Radio Club will be conducting Volunteer Examiner (VE) testing next Thursday February 14th at 7:00 PM in the Salvation Army Church. Your teachers will be your examiners. AG7NE AE7AQ AE7AP K7MT On your FCC license application, you'll ...

Hi Jim, Also big hi to Wanda as always from Bill. Thanks for getting W7ECA-10 Packet node back operational. I noticed it a couple days ago and give it a try. I connected into W7XY Donnies RMS Packet station and did some Winlink messages. I also connect to Donnies Mail Drop W7XY-1 and left him a mess...

Ditto Bruce, exactly my intention by removing extraneous background noise.

Thanks Bill K7MT

I found this on the ARRL page and find it interesting. So if you use amateur radio for your political gratitude or to demean others, that is the incorrect use of this wonderful hobby !!! The Radio Amateur is: CONSIDERATE….. never knowingly operating in such a way as to lessen the pleasure of others....

Happy New Year everyone and the best of health in 2018. I was talking with a good friend Jamie Thompson earlier this morning about happiness. She and I agree it is staying positive and in particular haning around positive folks. We both work on wild land fire together and that is a crowd of positive...

Howdy everyone, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all from Bill in Helena, Mt. Lynn K7WGR and I did the monthly testing of SHARES, MARS, and Amateur station at the State DES Fort Harrison this morning. The DES Packet station on 145.010/AEA PK-232 PSK now includes a Winlink RMS Packet Port KM7DES...

Howdy Jim and Wanda, Just wanted to stop in and wish you both a Merry Christmas from Bill in Helena. Hope this finds you well and ready for the holidays. It is a special time of the year to reflect on our lives during the last year. I will ponder some New Years resolutions, eat a lot, try to ski if ...

Howdy gang - I am happy to report that Dave N7DG of Clancy, Mt has a 24/7/365 RMS Packet N7DG-10 to Winlink operational on 145.010. Great job Dave and glad I could help out but all the credit goes to you !!! Gee Haw !! I tested the rf link via Hogbak node and the Belmt Node and both worked well. I s...

Howdy gang, Over the last month or so I have bee helping Tom WR7AGT and Mike KB8ML setting up Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) in the Helena, Mt. area. Mac Pass was the first site with a HyTera Digital/Analog repeater placed into service. The Dual role has Digital linked to BrandMeister and the Analog lin...

Howdy gang - Ed W7MAD of Helena has a 4 element on a 24 foot boom 15 meter mono band antenna free for the taking. Ed put up a 40 meter 2 element on Monday on the tower where the 15 meter was making home. Pickup in Helena email to Ed W7MADED at gmail dot com

Bill K7MT

Howdy gang - I am happy to report that EAGLHD APRS station is BIS at 9,932 feet above the NW corner of Yellowstone Park. Kevin Ames AA7YQ climbed up this morning and replace the antenna which was broke off at the base with a good mountain top model. It is beaconing, digipeating APRS signals, and rep...

Good morning Bill. If you get a chance to look at APRS, you will see an iGate/Digipeater in Butte. The location shows up in the middle of the Berkley Pit, but the actual location is on the upper west side. It was put together by myself, James (KG7OMB) and Andrew (KG7OJS). It is a Raspberry Pi, a Yae...

Thanks Bruce,

I will put that on the Montana Ham Radio Facebook page. Good info.

Bill K7MT

Ok Jim,

I will add that to the post.

Cheers Bill

GM Jim and hi to Wanda !!!

Thanks for the information and I will post it on Montana Ham Radio Facebook page and announce it on the Montana Traffic Net this next week. I look forward seeing the Great Falls gang this Saturday.

Cheers Bill K7MT