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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.
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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.
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