RMHAM Installs MotoTRBO

2/13/10 - Mike Mullarkey, k7PFJ has installed RMHAM's first MotoTRBO Digital system at Lee Hill above Boulder.  It's coverage is excellent in the Denver Metro Area and will soon be linked along the front range and parts west!

For system, programming information and radio help, please go to MotoTRBO above. 

Initial audio reports on the system are excellent and the coverage is great.  Feel free to stop by.  It's a fantastic system.

W0KU and N0WBW Get The Front
of QST Magazine in Oct 2009!

A great shot from our teardown from June 2009 VHF Contest.  Photo taken by W0KVA of Scott and John taking down the UHF antennas after another fantastic contest year. 

A quick spreadsheet of scores from the June 2009 ARRL VHF QSO Party shows us that we've beat our 2008 score hands down!   We really hope to see you in Limon in 2009.  It will be a great year!

2009 Denver Marathon
Perfect Execution!

The Denver Marathon was held on Sunday, October 18, 2009. This is an event that Amateur Radio has been involved in for 4 years.  This year was a huge success with nearly 75 hams supporting the efforts. 

The safety of the course and well being of every runner was handled by the ham radio community and was well received by all.

If you were involved in the event, you deserve a huge thanks and a pat on the back for a job well done.

Photos are online under Pictures above or Click Here.

2009 VHF Contest
Another Fine Job!

We were worried, with last year's huge success and all of the band openings, it was a tough act to follow.  We did it.  We beat our 2008 raw score by over 2000 points. More information to follow.   See PICTURES above.  The 10GHz contacts were fun and working with all of the local folks to pull this year's event off.  Thanks to all that came out.  We even got a contact with K5UR, Rick Roderick, VP of ARRL, and we told him "We don't use illegal power."  He told us that he really enjoyed HamCon this year and Estes Park. 

We always enjoy going out to do the contest, and when we're done, it's a bit depressing.  There's always next year and we're going to go out bigger, better and louder.  2010 will be a great contest and we'll be ready.  Will you be ready?   You should consider getting on any of the VHF bands with your rig and talk to us.

We're looking forward to some NEW rovers in 2010 with as many bands as we can squeeze into their cars.  It will be another great year.

 

RMHAM Assets Assist
in Rescue of Ham Skier

When Steve Priem, N0YIV, of Boulder, Colorado, decided to go backcountry skiing near Yankee Doodle Lake in the Guinn Mountain area of Colorado's Roosevelt National Forest on Friday, February 19, the 60 year old ham made sure he was well prepared: Not only did he take along a rescue whistle, he made sure his handheld transceiver was fully charged and in his pack.

It's a good thing he did: When Priem was injured while skiing; he used his radio to summon help. According to ARRL Colorado Section Manager Jeff Ryan, K0RM, a ham more than 100 miles away in Colorado Springs answered Priem's call for help and called 911. Priem was able to provide GPS coordinates for his position....READ MORE

Communications Trailer
Gets New Functionality

Rocky Mountain Ham Radio in trying to keep on the forefront of communications support for the Colorado Front Range.  With the addition of a new DataStorm F3 1.2m Transportable Fixed Earth Station, we have the ability to maintain emergency communications anywhere on the North American Continent!   It's as easy as pushing a button on the dish controller and waiting a few minutes.   This allows the use of our computers, VPN, PBX telephones and  internet as well as providing quick deployment telephone, IRLP, internet and instant hotspot functionality to the affected area.

To make room for the new satellite uplink, we had to change our old DBS television dish to an automatic dome system that allows us to lock on with the push of a button.

For pictures of this and our other projects, please click here.  We have created the trailer for contest use as well as for emergency and public service uses.  It's an ongoing project.  It's schedule is online for visibility.  Click Here.

Rocky Mountain Ham Radio Work on Local Radio Projects for Other Clubs

Our members projects this year include many system rebuilds around the Front Range to assist other clubs in making their systems work to their potential.

Among our members projects:

-Estes Park repeater rebuild for Estes Park
-IRLP Addition for Estes Park system
-Colorado Repeater Association Cheyenne Mountain
-System rebuild for Longmont ARC
-Colorado D-STAR rework at Thorodin
-Colorado Connection rebuild/rework at Thorodin
-Colorado Connection rebuild at Cheyenne Mountain

We do have a very busy year as well as next year awaiting us and look forward to completion of all of our tasks.  We apologize if we cannot fit your project into your schedule but there's only so many of us to go around!


Our Mission

To promote efficient use of technology at our fingertips to advance amateur radio and to ensure readiness to handle communications for any situation that may come along.

We work closely with other clubs to create quality radio systems and work to further the causes of amateur radio and protect the interests of the amateur radio community.

Rocky Mountain Ham Radio
And the Colorado D-Star Organization

RMHR is proud to announce that they assisted the Colorado D-Star Association (a group consisting of Rocky Mountain Ham Radio, Aurora Repeater Association, District 22 ARES, District 13 ARES and many individuals in deploying a new D-Star repeater stack in the Denver metro area, a grant given by Ham Radio Outlet.  The system is live and at the permanent site.  The UHF DV is available for your use on 446.9625.  VHF is on 145.25.  1200 DV is on 1283.9625 and DD is on 1299.90.  Comprehensive configuration information is on http://www.coloradodstar.org.

 

     

Rocky Mountain Ham Radio is a member supported, technology based club that operates
 several very high quality repeaters and APRS digis in the Denver Metropolitan Area.

Proud member of the Colorado Council of Amateur Radio Clubs as an ARRL Affiliated Club

"Bringing the amateur community into the new century"