[RMVHF] Greetings from Montana!

[Richard Harrod]

Lance, sometime look for the K7KMT/b just West of Gillette,WY on 2m. 144.298 in DN64 Good luck. Richard K7TNT DN74
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: LANCE COLLISTER 
  To: rmvhf at rmvhf.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:06 PM
  Subject: Re: [RMVHF] Greetings from Montana!


  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)
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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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