Blogs - New Mexico Hams

IRLP link relocated

Since my IRLP link has been nothing but trouble when operating it from my home here in Bernalillo because of heavy mult-path distortion, I have recently moved the IRLP computer and link radio to Alex's (KH7CF) home in Rio Rancho. The link now is working much better with a good signal into the repeater. I am still tinkering with the antenna. Even so, the IRLP system is much more positive now. A big THANKS to Alex for allowing me to install the system at his home. Anyone is welcome to use the IRL… Continue

Added by Jerry Aceto on November 1, 2009 at 2:07am — No Comments

220 Alive and growing in Albuqueque!

Hi Everyone, I have been a big advocate of the 220 band for the last 20+ years. I started my repeater in the Seattle, Washington area back in 1985 or so. Since moving to this area about 3 years ago, I have since moved my system to Rio Rancho. The repeater is on 224.480 Mhz with no PL. It is open to the entire ham community. No membership or dues are necessary or accepted. I built it over 20 years ago and regard it as a payback to the amateur community for all the enjoyment our great hobby has g… Continue

Added by Jerry Aceto on June 15, 2009 at 12:03am — 2 Comments

Captain Bob Introduces Seeker at NM-Arts

For those who couldn't be there. Here's a stream of Captain Bob Grant's presentation to the New Mexico Amateur Radio Technical Society on his home made robot. Continue

Added by Scott Westerman on June 9, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

CW in real life

When I wrote this post about the Japanese creating a Morse device as a way to quickly input Twitter content, it got me to thinking... Why not use a code key in place of your computer keyboard? Turns out that at least one other person had this idea.… Continue

Added by Scott Westerman on June 1, 2009 at 5:12pm — No Comments

Rick Roderick at Hamcon 2009

Rick Roderick, K5UR, is currently Vice President of the American Radio Relay League. He has held ARRL appointments continuously for over 40 years. He is known world-wide for his operating achievements in amateur radio on the HF and VHF/UHF bands, having held numerous records in the fields of DXing and contesting. He lives on a 50 acre an… Continue

Added by Scott Westerman on May 30, 2009 at 11:08pm — No Comments

Could Morse Code see a resurgence.. among the Twitter Generation?

Bill Ripley

sent this story along to the NM-Arts mailing list. It's about a new text messaging device that uses... Morse Code. Here's an excerpt.. Twittering text-aholics will soon have a new plaything: Toshiba has teamed up with American microprocessor giant Intel to produce Clique, a handheld, thumb-operated device that uses only three key… Continue

Added by Scott Westerman on May 28, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Live from the Dayton Hamvention

We're back from Dayton, with a sneak preview of our interviews for This Week in Amateur Radio. I talk with Gerry Youngblood, founder of Flex Radio Systems, with Eric Meth of Icom about D-Star and with ARRL Youth Editor Duncan McLachlan about how to bring young blood into the hobby. Here are the links: Flex Radio Systems Icom D-Star Primer… Continue

Added by Scott Westerman on May 19, 2009 at 8:33pm — No Comments

Field Day Locations around NM

Clubs and individuals will be taking to the outdoors for the annual Amateur Radio Field Day on June 27/28. Here are a few of the events we've heard about. Ping us and we'll add your information to the list! 1. Albuquerque Amateur Radio Club/Amateur Radio Caravan Club Site - Northeast corner of Montgomery Park - Corner of Alvarado and Ponderosa NE. - Albuquerque, NM - Contact: Richard St. John, K5RSJ. 2. KD4HCR (Captain Bob),… Continue

Added by Scott Westerman on May 8, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

DXing in 1984

In 1984, I had been a ham for just 3 years. My antenna was an energized downspout and I had just bought a used Ten Tec Omni to energize my Heathkit 2080a antenna tuner. We were at a great point in the sunspot cycle. Working DX on CB radios converted to 10 meter from the parking lot at work during lunch hour was not uncommon. It was a time before DX clusters were on line, when we’d call one another on a special two meter frequency when we heard a rare one. We depended on the beacons to tell us w… Continue

Added by Scott Westerman on April 18, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Ham Radio 101: The Origins of CQ

From Wikipedia: CQ is a code used by wireless operators, particularly those communicating in Morse code, but also by voice operators, to make a general call (called a CQ call). Transmitting the letters CQ on a particular radio frequency is an invitation for any operators listening on that frequency to respond. It is still widely used in amateur radio. A CQ call can be qualified by appending more letters, as in CQ DX (meaning "calling all long… Continue

Added by Scott Westerman on April 17, 2009 at 12:40pm — No Comments

Social Media for the Radio Amateur

Here's the power point, with audio from my presentation to the April, 2009 URFMSI meeting. Enjoy!

Social Media for Radio Amateurs from Scott Westerman on Vimeo. Continue

Added by Scott Westerman on April 14, 2009 at 10:34pm — No Comments

2009 Field Day Video

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Added by Scott Westerman on April 5, 2009 at 10:18pm — No Comments

New Mexico QSO Party - Results have been posted.

During the weekend of Feb 7 many of us NM Hams worked the NM QSO party. For awhile I was checking the website daily to see if the results have been posted. I was out of town this past week so I have not been able to do my daily web wandering. I just check the site and the results have been posted. You can see how you did by going to the NM QSO Party webpage. Overall I am pretty happy with my results. In the low power category for… Continue

Added by W2FCP - Mike White on March 27, 2009 at 11:09pm — No Comments

Lightning protection for your station

Members of the NM-ARTS group saw a terrific presentation by Mike, K5KM, about how to protect your station from a lightning strike. It's all about grounding, grounding, grounding. We learned a ton of theory plus some very useful ideas on how to protect your station, both from lightning and from the static discharge that's often an issue during our March windstorms. Join our Yahoo group and get free access t… Continue

Added by Scott Westerman on March 11, 2009 at 4:26pm — No Comments

ARRL DX SSB Contest

I worked the ARRL DX SSB contest a little bit this weekend. I didn't really put too much effort into it, I think I only operated a total of 3 hours combined Saturday and Sunday. I got 14 DX entities into the log, adding a few new ones towards my DXCC. KH6RC - Ocean View, Hawaii JA0JHA - Nigata, Japan NH7O - Hana, Hawaii KH7X - Honolulu, Hawaii KH6/AC0W - Hawaii XE1L - Mexico City, Mexico KH6MB - Waimanalo, Hawaii FS5KA - St Martin, France IR1R - Genova, Italy WP4EDD - Aguadilla, Puerto Rico CS2… Continue

Added by W2FCP - Mike White on March 9, 2009 at 12:21pm — No Comments

Ignition Noise Solutions from Roswell

When we gathered to audit the logs from the New Mexico QSO party with the great guys from the Los Alamos Amateur Radio Club, the conversation turned to the challenges of suppressing ignition noise. KJ5KU has a hamstick and a Icom 706 as part of his mobile installation and recommends this link. Not only is Alan a New Mexican (he lives in Roswell), K0BG is an expert on identifying and mitigating ignition noise. A trip to his we… Continue

Added by Scott Westerman on March 8, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Need Lithuania?

Isaac, W5IDT proved again that DX is within our reach, bagging LY2ZZ the other night. Here's what propo looks like to Vilnius.

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Added by Scott Westerman on March 8, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Creative Antenna Systems

By Scott Westerman - W9WSW As a bunch of us hams gathered at W5FHA's place to help him erect his new vertical antenna a couple of weeks ago, my mind faded back to my earliest days as an amateur. We were living in a long two-story town-house building on "Sugarbush Road" in suburban Detroit and despite my great relationship with the complex manager, overt antenna installations were a no-no. I immediately popped the attic door and attached a 2 meter ground plane to a truss. One problem solved. B… Continue

Added by Scott Westerman on March 6, 2009 at 5:32pm — No Comments

Introduction

My name is Michael White, I am active duty Air Force stationed at Cannon AFB, Clovis NM. I earned my Technician license in June of 2008 and upgraded to General in December of 2008. My interest in Ham Radio goes way back to my early years of going into my Grandfathers Ham Shack which was in the basement of his house in Queens, NY. His call sign was W2FCP and the earliest I have found it in call books was 1934. I know he had been building an tinkering with radio since he was 10 years old which was… Continue

Added by W2FCP - Mike White on February 28, 2009 at 2:21pm — 2 Comments

DX Spots on NMHams.com and beyond

If you've perused the left navigation column at NMHams.com, you've probably discovered our all new DX Spot application. It's an RSS grabber that propagates the #DX search over at Twitter.com. If you haven't visited Twitter yet, check it out! It's been described as the "heartbeat of the Internet", a 140 character world of comments and information, a microblog environment where you can share what's on your mind and follow what's on others. Di… Continue

Added by Scott Westerman on February 21, 2009 at 4:46pm — No Comments

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