Montana's Ham Radio Forum

I just got an HF rig set up - a Yaesu 857D with power supply. I have an antenna tuner finally and am in the process of getting it in the loop. It's my first time with one and I had all kinds of fun hanging the antenna tower. Anyway, it's all up now and I'd like to get a more experienced operator's o...

Thanks for all your hard work, Mike.

Great work! Those were excellent quality and showed off everything from the antennas to the operators! Thanks!

Nice video! Part 2?

If you have a few minutes to help us out, we are trying to update the club website. We would appreciate all comments, suggestions, corrections, and information updates. We are also looking for pictures to convert for use as backgrounds - anything ham radio related such as Yagis, antenna towers, etc....

Since message-passing is such a crucial part of ARES, I would suggest that we put together some messages and practice this. I for one have seen the standard message template, but never used it. I'd feel a lot more professional and comfortable if there we had some sample messages that we could push t...

This was a great opportunity. Thanks!

Interesting Reference. This info is also listed in the Mutual Aid Frequencies manual available under the ARES links, but this list includes a few not on there.

Thanks

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?

So when my house was originally built, there was a small room right off a bathroom that was obviously the room for the dryer, as it has a 220V plug there. I have now taken over that room and it has become by ham shack. There is only one other outlet in that room, and it is already running my DSL mod...

Nice pictures and a great job by all!

Can anyone post the actual date/time/location of JOTA? I'd like to participate and I have some contacts to spread the word.

Oh, and I found a potential patch from the Boy Scouts site.

I was able to access forum just fine.