2010 Denver Marathon now the
Denver Rock and Roll Marathon

We will again be supporting the Denver Rock and Roll Marathon Crew in producing a fantastic event with nearly 15000 runners expected.  This will be 2 times what it was last year.

Rocky Mountain Ham's regular support team has been asked to provide communications support again, and we will be doing it again.  This will be the 5th year for Denver Area Ham Support as well as RMHAM's involvement.   From the inception of the race in 2006, we've enjoyed the great training opportunities this affords the area's hams and believe it to be a worthwhile venture.

It will require similar support to last year, but we are looking forward to handing life safety and welfare for the course, and ensuring that all runners make it back to where they are supposed to be.

Photos of the previous events are online under Pictures above or Click Here.

June 2010 ARRL VHF QSO Party

Well folks, we had a great contest this year.  From getting the antennas finished about 5 hours early to being rained on for the whole weekend, it was a challenge.  Our team this year was very full and it was a good thing we had all of the hands we did.

Our score this year unaudited was 210,455 points with 773 QSOs on 245 grids.  This is a tremendous showing for Colorado and we are so glad we could do it.

Special thanks to N0VBY, AB0SF, W0KU, K0RM, W0CBI, N0AH, W0ANT, W0PSS, KD0BQD and  N9DUX for braving the elements and helping us pull of 35% better than we did last year! 

Photos are available CLICK HERE

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!

RMHAM Assists the Veteran's
Administration for NDMS 2010

4/14/2010 Rocky Mountain Ham Radio provided ambulance dispatch services for NDMS 2010 "Mountain Move" at Signature Air Service at Denver International Airport.  This is our second year and was very well received by all of the agencies involved.  With most Front Range ARES Groups being involved, it was an excellent event to showcase our capabilities as well as a fantastic training opportunity.

The Veteran's Administration was the initiator of the exercise and had personnel from all over the United States.  They were quite surprised at all of the capabilities that we provide and that our trailer has more capability than most State and Homeland security vehicles!

Kudos go out to all of you that worked the exercise.  More shots of the whole event are in the Gallery.

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 past members projects:

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

This year's projects:

-Colorado Connection rebuild/rework at Thorodin
-Linked repeater system for Clear Creek/Gilpin ARES
-Design/Build prototype 3.3-3.5GHz Ham IP Link System
-Repair noise issues on 449.225
-Replace antenna on 449.625
-Install new repeater at Almagre
-Install new repeater at Conifer

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.