Montana's Ham Radio Forum

Good Day To All. If you were listening to the Montana Emergency Communications Group Net last Thursday evening you heard both W7GMC and KD7YZI check in as visitors. They will now be called as part of the Net weekly, after a long absence. Jody can and I am sure will be willing to lend a hand where ev...

I would like to thank every one who responded to the "Great Rocky Mountain Shake Out" exercise on 10-23-2013. It is a yearly exercise for Earth Quake Awareness. This Year the ARRL chose to use it as our SET Exercise. We had 17 check ins that day for the net. I thought that was real good fo...

I am very sorry. I used the term AUXCOMM GROUP and there is no such term able to be used as pointed out to me be a very concerned person. Also I want to clear up a fact that I made a Second BO-BO. George AA7GS Has nothing at all to do with this event. I only used him a a point of contact if I could ...

The North Central Montana AUXCOMM Group Is going to make a Field Exercise of this Fun Run. It is going to be held at Gibson Park on March 23 Rd. starting at 08:00. We should all be in place by 07:45. We will be working Communications and Safety during the run. If you are a CERT Member please bring y...

AUXCOMM stands for Auxiliary Emergency Communications. It is put on by Home Land Security. It is for Amateur Radio Operators who want to help in a time of need. You have to Hold a General Class Ticket or higher. Have taken and passed Is 700, 100, 200, & 800. Copies of these have to be sent in wh...

The class was Great! The Team I was one turned out to be Super all the way around. I would like to Thank all of them. K7JZ Tim, KE7YTK Parrish, W7GMC Ken. for all the help, and their hard work. I say all General Class and above who are interested in ECOMM. should sign up for these classes. 73 KE7BIN

The Missoula AUXCOM Class is Feb. 16 & 17. Our group has 4 more people going over. I think if you are a General class or higher and interested in helping out in the future you should consider taking this class. When the crap hits the fan it is the only way We'll be asked to Help Out!
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A Big Thank You To All Who Went Over To Helena To Speak In Favor of This Bill!!

Great Post Mr. President!

Friday night started out sort of slow. The bands opened up on Saturday a lot In the morning one of the forecasters talked with Rods help. Later another forecaster came over and Ken worked with her, however she wasn't as lucky. Then The BIG Gun Eric came and man was he HOT. Before I left he had a str...

Who came up with the idea of Sky Warn Rec. Day? What was the date of the First one?

I would like to thank everyone who responded to our call for Help! At 5PM last night we were short people for TWO areas. By the time We started at 6PM we not only covered those areas but ended up with 15 people covering a large portion of the city. Some areas seemed to have much fewer kids while oth...

Jim you and the GFAARC Repeater Group have worked effortlessly to keep the 64 repeater up and running. The 146.740 and all its links are a fine tribute to You and Your Bunch.
Keep Up The Great Work.

Thanks Rod You've got it. The Maps will be out about Mid October. 73

The time is getting closer for this years Goblin Patrol! It is Wed. October 31st. We will be operation from 6pm to 8:30pm with Ice Cream Social at the 2nd. Ave. No. D.Q. I sure would like to have 12-14 people working the various parts of the city this year. Don't forget to carry along your SOP cards...