[RMVHF] Greetings from Montana!

[Ken Anderson]

Hi Lance, W7GJ (ex WA1JXN/7):

You mention the 704 mi distance to the Denver area from your QTH for which there is no usual terrestrial path.  I'm sure you are right but one unusual meteor scatter QSO I had on August 12, 1982 (probably the Perseids) was with WA1JXN/7 when you worked 4 Denver area stations.  I worked you with a 10w ssb rig and a 7 el antenna and have appreciated your QSL in my file for years.  The ms contact spurred me to get onto 2m ssb in a bigger way with 100w and a 17 el m2 at 80 ft.    It was a fun QSO and I will always remember it.

I hope you've signed on to the RMVHF reflector.

73 Ken, W0ETT
Parker, CO DM79

From: k7tnt at bresnan.net
To: rmvhf at rmvhf.org
Subject: Re: [RMVHF] Greetings from Montana!
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:42:46 -0700










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:
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  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 
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> 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 
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> Hey, stay warm up there, always enjoying 
  hearing from you on 6M in 
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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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