[RMVHF] Greetings from Montana!

[LANCE COLLISTER]

W6OAL at aol.com wrote:
> Lance,
>  
>     You are always more than welcome to our group. Actually you are a 
> Rocky Mountain VHF+ Member just by virtue of the fact that you live in 
> the Rocky Mountain Region. We are a fairly loose knit group of no 
> officers, no dues, no rules (other than FCC) and the best 2M (144.220) 
> Monday night net in the 'nation'. We average 30 check-ins Monday nights 
> at 8 PM local. Don't know that we can reach Montana on other than a 
> little sporadic E, or tropo but please give a listen and try to check in 
> with us when the basement heats up. 'Tis been a terrible cold winter 
> thus far here in CO also.
>     Say, check out our web site, www.rmvhf.org  , 
> see what we been up to, what we do and what we propose to do. Our roster 
> runs about 250 members. A member is anyone that checks-in at least once.
>     Hey, stay warm up there, always enjoying hearing from you on 6M in 
> the mornings.
>  
> CU 73, Dave... (First Monday of the Month Net Control Station)
>  
> Olde Antenna Lab of Denver
> Dr. David A. Clingerman, Sc. D. (CEO)
> 41541 Dublin Drive
> Parker, CO 80138-4604
> 
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> E-mail: w6oal at aol.com
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TNX Dave!

I am not sure that I have ever tried making 704 mile terrestrial contacts on 2m 
;-)  That, as we have seen, is just on the short end of possible D layer scatter 
and probably also a little short for most possible 2m Es.  And I doubt there is 
any tropo ducting possible because of all the mountains between us...but I DO 
faintly hear the 6m beacon over near Bozeman, MT fading in and out of the noise as 
if there might be some tropo QSB somewhere along the path ;-)  So it just might be 
interesting to try :-)

I don't untie the 2m array too often but I have worked Salt Lake City before on 
ground wave.  Are you QRV with digital modes?  It would be interesting to try a 
JT65 mode sked with you on 2m to see if the extra 15 dB sensitivity might make 
such a path possible....  I ran some JT65 skeds with W6OUU a couple weeks ago 
because he still needed Montana on both 2m and 6m and both were VERY easy 
contacts.  But you are a LOT further away than Twin Falls ID!

Anyway, pse let me know if you want to give it a try sometime ;-)  GL and VY 73, Lance

-- 
Lance Collister, W7GJ (ex: WN3GPL, WA3GPL, WA1JXN, WA1JXN/C6A, ZF2OC/ZF8)
P.O. Box 73
Frenchtown, MT  59834  USA
QTH: DN27UB
TEL: (406) 626-5728   URL: http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj
2m DXCC #11, 6m DXCC #815

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