I have a Yaesu FT-92Ø Xcvr on HF and occasionally run an Ameritron AL-811 amplifier on HF. My backup rig is a Yaesu FT-857D. The main radio in my car is an Icom-2720 Dual Band FM for local use around Colorado Springs.

Antennas are a Hy-Gain TH-5DX on a 40' crank-up/tilt-over Tristao tower, butternut HF-9V ground mounted vertical, and a Ringo Ranger AR27Ø on 2m/70cm. I also use a dipole on the low end of 80 meters for CW & RTTY contests. My first QSO with the TH-5DX beam was with N8S on Swains Island. A great way to break in a new antenna.

I retired from Deluxe Business Forms in October, 2ØØØ. I am a regular on the internet.  In addition to chasing DX on the HF bands, I also operate digital modes PSK31/MFSK/Throb,RTTY,etc.  I am a member of PPDXG (Pikes Peak DX Group), and also GMCC (Grand Mesa Contesters of Colorado).  I am a QCWA member (#32521) as well as FISTS (#10912). I am also a member of OMISS (OM Int'l Sideband Society - #5081), 10X (23811) and numerous other organizations. In addition I am a member of the Royal Order of the Wouff Hong. I also received my DXCC Certificate in June, 2006.

The highlight of my 43 years as a ham occurred in November, 2006, when I went to Costa Rica for the CQWW CW Contest on November 25 & 26, 2006. We operated at contest station TI5N and had over 6800 contacts and a score of a little over 9 million points. It was awesome to operate on the DX side of the fence during a contest like that. I would love to be able to do it again in the future. I will never forget it. Our hosts, Keko, TI5KD and his wife Sophia, TI2IY, were wonderful hosts during our stay at their home just north of San Jose, Costa Rica. 

My wife Mary and I were married 52 years on October 8, 2007. We have 4 grown children, 9 grandchildren & 2 great grandchildren (a boy and a girl).

If you hear me on the air or see me on your computer screen, give a shout. I love to rag chew. I enjoy DXing, contesting (especially RTTY & CW), CW, and just the hobby in general. 

Janice KBØQAA received her ham license in 1994 before marrying Bill KØUK. She is active on 2m. Janice supports Bill's contesting  by her friendly relationships with neighbors.  Janice supports the club and club members in many ways, large and small, too frequently and too numerous to list but well known to many of us!

KIØG is a QRP builder/operator and the photo is of his latest, 5/25/03, project. The AT Sprint, 3 bands with 150 KHz tuning and 5 watts out. The unit has a built-in memory keyer and excellent signal processing. The box is an Altoids mint container. 

RADIO INTERESTS: CW DX and Contests; currently operate only 40 & 17 meter CW. Also active on Field Day as WØGG with local group. 

Jerry KØDU and his XYL, Chris KC0DKX, reside with their two German Shepards, one cat and seven towers. Under construction is a 550 sq. ft. shack for contesting, DXing and hanging out with Ham buddies. Visitors to western Colorado are invited to take in the georgous views from the Colorado National Monument and to stop in. 

K0GAS Connie Schaeffer - first licensed as KN0GAS in 1956, received her  Conditional license the next year, and the Advanced and Extra Class licenses sometime in the 1980's.  Back in the 1956 she won a certificate in the Novice Roundup.  Connie was active on the Ladies Loaded Clothes Line Net in the '50's and '60's, participated in Field Day regularly until they moved to Utah in 1973.  They didn't like women in their Club so she wasn't active those years.  But she had a request for the Utah YL contact before her license even arrived.  Bob KJØG retired in 1976 and they traveled for 4 years before returning home to Montrose and building a house in a location selected for antennas.  Began doing DX and Contesting in about 1983 and, of course Field Day every year.  Also participated in the Ladies Only Net from 1981-2003. She took over as net control in April 1995 when K0MA became a silent key.  She  received the Top Gun award in 2000, the Japan International DX contest plaque  for first place - US Zone 4 all band  phone  for the six years from 1991-1996, and a bunch of certifcates  for WPX, CQ160, ARRL DX, SS,as single OP and ARRL 10M (multi with KJØG).

Bob K0NR (ex-KB0CY) is interested in HF, VHF/UHF, satellites and lots of other stuff. His contesting interests are mostly above 50 MHz, usually mountaintop portable or as a rover. He has been known to get on the air for a few HF contests. Bob lives in Monument with his wife Joyce (K0JJW).  The photo was taken during the 2003 CQ Worldwide VHF Contest out roving near Last Chance, Colorado. For more info, see Bob's web page
at www.k0nr.com
 

Larry (or Lou) KØRI  was first licensed in 1962 as WN0DGL.  He received K0RI in 1976 when the FCC made 1X2 calls available to extra class hams.  He spent 20 years in the Marine Corps and returned home to Colorado to settle in the Black Forest where the air is clean and there are high pine trees for to stringing  antennas.  Lou is also a mission coordinator/IC for El Paso County Search and Rescue and credits ham radio with stimulating his interest in public service.  Lou  likes to contest on the HF bands and enjoys VHF weak signal DXing.

Uncle Bethel P. Brown in KØUK's  home town of Henderson, Ky. first introduced him to ham radio.  In 1960 with the advent of the transistor in 1960 he received his novice license.  He discovered contesting by wanting to work DX especially on 40m SSB & CW. In 1973 he moved to Denver CO where the contesting bug bite hard. Hamming with the Colorado Conspiracy Club he met W0UA, K0RF, W0UN, W0ZV, K0YK and K0TR.   These hams helped him  to improve both his station and contest techniques.  Bill’s main mentor was K0KE Keith Errickson. He was most influential in helping Bill hone his skills and encouraged him to compete against himself not others.  Bill mostly uses the LP power level due to pesky neighbors.   Bill was also one of many Grand Mesa Contestors and DX Society Presidents & served various functions,  trustee being the latest. 

Chris N4VI and his station are  currently in a state of "chaos"! The last year has been spent in an 805 square foot condo as our house underwent major remodeling. The task of actually getting the station back on the air has proven more daunting then he anticipated. There is just so much to do to get the house back in at least a state of "controlled chaos"! 

6 meters has been a secret interest of Bob's NØFCK.  Bob got my license 44 years ago. He is  on the air every day, mostly on 75 meters. For BOb, having a cw contact is still fun, not very fast, but still fun. 
 

Dan NØHF loves contesting and DX.  He operates at KØRF MM. Dan also teach General and Extra class theory for the Boulder Amateur Radio Club Jr. and assists with operating events. He is the GMCC liaison for youth activities on Front Range.  Dan works at The University of Colorado in Boulder as a Data Network and IT security Manager. Previously he worked at Alpha/Power as a Project Engineer and brought the Alpha 99 HF amplifier from concept to production. His lovely XYL is a Veterinarian and has a mobile practice. 

NØIO Mark Grand Junction

Joe K8FC has been a licensed Amateur Radio Operator since 1957. Joe has spent most of his amateur career in the suburbs of Detroit.  He moved to Rochester NY in 1990 where he worked for the Xerox Corporation as a Systems Engineer.  He then moved to Colorado in September of 2001 after retiring from Xerox. Joe has 5BDXCC,  Honor Roll with all current countries worked and confirmed. Joe is very interested in contesting and his  favorites are CQ160, ARRL 160, ARRL Sweepstakes and CQWWCW. 

 Phil NØKE  was first licensed as WN8TTN in 1954.  Even now, over half his QSOs are made on CW. Phil got into contesting after discovering that it was easier to work DX in a contest situation and later loved the competition. Phil enjoys QRP and QRO & VHF contesting and HF. He  has equipment to operate from 160m thru 1.2 GHz plus 10 GHz. He has 35 states and 6 countries on 2m, and WAS, WAC and 76 countries on 6m. On HF he has worked all but one of the current DXCC countries (need VU4)--- 300 of these QRP also.  His operating is mostly done portable.  Phil is fortunate to be one of only a handful of Colorado hams that have worked Europe on 6m. Phil  teaches skiing and snowboarding for the Vail Ski School. In the summer he drives 4 WD tours.  In the 1999, 2000 and 2001 CQWW WPX CW Phil  operated TI5N to first in the world for QRP single operator AB. 

June NØLER became a ham in 1986 as a Novice. She did  not do a thing with it until l989 when she became a Classic Tec and finally got on HF. June upgraded to General in l991. June has always enjoyed contesting.  It took he OM Bob NØFCK 20 years to get her interested in radio and now she really enjoys it.  As another hobby, June researches family genealogy.

Wayne NØPOH got his license in 1991, after many years of activity as a  SWL, BCB DXer and scanner enthusiast.  He has been very active over  the years as a member of the National Radio Club & is the Chairman of  the Board of Directors and is editor of the National Radio Club AM  Radio Log. He is activewith the Aurora Repeater Association as an  officer of the organization and currently the trustee of the 147.15  (+) repeater.  He contests VHF, and can be found active on 6 through  1296.  His XYL Joan is KBØYRX & they published the Rocky Mountain VHF+  Newsletter which catered to weak signal activity on six meters and  up for many years.  He is a real estate appraiser and computer jockey  for the Arapahoe County Assessor's Office.
 

Jason NØSG operates 40-10 (160 coming soon) meters on HF and 6, 2m, and 70cm on V/UHF. He also works satellites with an Arrow Satellite Antenna. Jason operates  mostly CW or PSK31 on HF at 100w, but likes to turn it down to QRP: 250mw-5w. Jason also operates other digital modes and some SSB.  He also enjoysbuilding kits. So far he has built an OHR-100A and several station accesories. More QRP transcievers soon!

 Gary NØSXX was first licensed in 1968. He is very interested in CW, Contesting and QRP, especially operating from the field. Picture was taken when he operated from 14036 ft Mt Sherman in Colorado. 

Kelly began his radio career at an early age. He vividly remembers getting his first pair of walkie talkies as a Christmas gift around age 5. During the late seventies and after several sets of walkie talkies and several years later, he hijacked an old CB radio from the family car. While in high school, he spent many evenings talking to the locals and dreaming of working the skip that he‚d hear. Eventually several of his friends decided to take the amateur radio exam and talked Kelly into joining them. Everybody passed and on January 5, 1985 his first license arrived in the mail. That afternoon in a driving snowstorm, a dipole was strung from the roof of the house out to some trees. It was official, KA9SYF was on the air!

DXing has always been Kelly‚s passion. From the early days of hearing those distant signals on 11 meters to present day, there is still magic in being able to talk to somebody half way around the world. During his college years, he found a way to string a wire from his 11th floor dorm room in order to work DX. During that time he worked on improving his country count between studying and chasing the young YLs. Kelly actually achieved DXCC before accomplishing Worked All States.

Over the course of the last 20+ years Kelly has managed to achieve DXCC Honor Roll only needing 3Y0/B, KP1 and a good 7O. He has also been climbing the DXCC Challenge ladder with around 1,300 band countries, Kelly has also been an active DX cluster sysop since the early days, putting his first node on the air in 1994. Today he keeps busy with his DX oriented website, DX Central. Kelly has recently taken up the exciting hobby of traveling to tropical islands and running the pileups from the DX side. Pictured here is Kelly enjoying the pileups on PJ4.

The last frontier for Kelly is 160 meters and he has been aggressively pursuing the 160 meter DXCC endorsement. He‚s active on all bands and you can be sure if there is a good pileup, he‚ll be calling. If you happen to hear him on the air, please say hello

 NØZA Ross was first licensed in 1965 as WA5LTQ. His primary interest in Amateur Radio has always been DXing. He originally was drawn into contesting as a way of working some new DX.  He enjoyed working the CQWPX SSB, CQWW CW, and the ARRL 160M contest from TI5N in 2003. I also enjosy boatanchors, homebrewing, and VHF. 

NX7TT Ed Idaho Falls, ID 

 I am now NX7TT here in Idaho Falls, Idaho.  I have held the following calls: NT4TT, AH2BE, AH2BE/KH6/KH9/KH0, KB6DAW/KH2/KH6/KH9/KH0, HL9MM, 8P9GI and HZ1AB as well as a HP2.

I have been doing radio since 1972, mostly across the oceans.  I am now working from the United States and having a great time mostly due to the GMCC club and Bill K0UK.  Thanks to Bill and Janice for allowing me to come and play radio.   I am, according to the 3830 reflector, #2 SOAB LP for the WPX SSB contest.  In addition I have been in the top 10 these last few years, so not too bad.  To those who may not know, I am the sponsor for the MS Asia Plaque for CQWW and WPX and the CQ160 as well.  Had there been one to win when I was at HZ1AB I am sure we would have won it.  Now there is one to win....  I have purchased 5 acres here in Idaho and I am slowly putting together a small station again thanks to Bill K0UK.  I have enjoyed my time with the group and hope to be able to contribute to the club.  73 from Idaho Falls  Ed now NX7TT

First licensed as KN1DNE (novice) in 1957. Call changed with move to Chicago and upgrade in 1958 to K9QLK (general). Call changed again with move to Denver in 1975 to W0RSG (general). Upgraded to extra class in ~1980. Moves to Mass, Cal, Wash and back to Cal. Call changed to NU6I (extra) in 1997. Active in contesting and DX primarily on CW. President of the Eagle County Ham Organization (ECHO) in 1985-87, and finally call changed to N0KQ in 2005 on returning to Colorado. Obtained tax exempt status and led several public service projects.  Profession: clinical research in the pharmaceutical industry.

George W1XE, was first licensed in 1965 as WN1DYU, became Extra class in 1969, and received his current  callsign in 1977, while in Groton, MA, then moved to Nederland, CO area in 1981.  George is an electrical engineer, specializing in magnetic recording physics,
and is an avid RF and power amplifier designer.
Favorite bands are 6 meters, 20 meters, 160 meters, 10GHz and 2m EME.  He's been a guest op at K0RF, TI5N, AA6TT, Aspen Contest Station, as well as host/operator during the ARRL VHF QSO Party Contests (W1XE/0, W0KEA/0, K0YO/0,W0DK/0) from "rare" grid squares or
mountain tops.  George is not an avid collector of
"certificates" but does have WAS on 160m and 6m, numerous QRP QSO contest awards, and when finally pplied for, one of these days, 5BWAS and DXCC. 

 Member GMRA,  ARRL , AMSAT , WCARC, Cactus, Co-founder of ECOMM, Colorado State RACES officer, Mesa Country RACES officer, ARES, dist 3 Asst EC, Mesa County IMG 
Trustee for wa4hnd 449.300 wa4hnd 449.575 wa4hnd 447.1 wa4hnd 224.260, wa4hnd IRLP node 3710. 

Benjie is a retired Aerospace Engineer. He became a ham because his father and uncle were hams and he used to hunt transmitters on ten meters with his father when he was a child in North Platte back in the 50's. He got his license in 1978 (N6BLQ) so he could talk with his father (K7NWC) everyday or at least every week until he died in 1984. Benjie enjoys HF contesting very much and has only missed three field days since 1979, two due to illness. One was a vacation where there weren't any ham rigs, ha!  He lived in San Diego for 15 years and did a lot of emergency volunteer work, and was able to participate in the 1984 Olympics as a radio communicator for the horse jumping events held in Del Mar.  He likes the EOSS balloon group and also enjoys fox hunting. 

Ken WØETT started short wave listening by building regenerative receivers as a teenager while his father was stationed at Wiesbaden AFB, Germany in 1957.  Ken got my novice license, KN8MTK in December, 1958.  Ken got the call WØETT when my parents moved to Littleton, Colorado in 1961 and he transferred to the University of Denver. While in Peace Corps in Brazil in '64-66, Ken did a little operating at his friend's QTH, PY7CKQ. During a stint in Saigon, Vietnam with USAID Refugee and War Victims Directorate from '68 - 72, he was back to SWLing since he couldn't get a license.  Ken got back to Colorado in 1974 and started contesting at his father’s cabin in South Park. With a homemade 2wl 20m rhombic at about 20' and 100w FT101z, he was having a good time DXing, handling traffic, and getting into contests again.  In 1979, Ken  upon old 6m again and became hooked on VHF. Using just 25 watts into a Ringo 6m vertical, he worked 25 JAs on CW during the solar cycle peak. Wow! 6 meters has been fun over the years with local ragchewing, contesting, working WAS in two years, and 102 DX countries over 23 years. On 2m, Ken has 40 states confirmed and over 150 grids towards VUCC.  In 1997, Ken moved from Littleton where he had a R-5 vertical for HF and a 7 elements on 6m to Parker, CO where he has 5 acres worth of elbow room. Hooray! Ken put up two towers and a bunch of HF and VHF antennas which accept the 100w from his trusty IC756 quite well. Ken really enjoys DX contests sponsored by CQ WW and ARRL. Ken also enjoys the NAQP, VHF, WPX, and 10m contests also very much. 

Gordon WØRUN's previous calls: KOØA, KE3D, ZS1FE, ZS1ANT, ZS5SL, ZE1DC.

Carson WAØRSX was first licensed in 1967.  He is active on 160-70cm.  Carson works CW, RTTY,PSK31, SSB and FM. He kike contests and is  DX active in AF  Mars.

WDØM Joe was first licensed in 1961 (KNØFNL).  Joe has been active for over 43 year & enjoys all modes.  Member of the Old Timers Club & the Old Old Timers Club.  He served in the USAF for 26 years, retired as a colonel, and have had the chance to travel the world and work on many fascinating programs, like the Space Shuttle, various satellites, and most recently, the F22 Raptor advanced tactical fighter.  Joe loves chasing DX & enjoys making contacts with people in countries where I've been during my career.   While in Alaska (WL7M) where he also enjoyed contsting, Joe worked 311 countries in less than 3 years, and thanks to an incredible 6 meter opening a few years ago, he worked all states in 30 days.  Since moving to Colorado, he's worked 167 countries in the past six months.  Joe won second place in the ARRL International DX contest for Alaska, first place in the world wide PSK31 contest from Alaska, and first place in the CQ World Wide RTTY DX contest for Alaska.  He's also placed first or second in numerous minor contests and state QSO parties.  While in Alaska, Joe helped out with communications on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, and he's  volunteered to help with the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb race in Colorado Springs - two racing extremes. 

WMØG Jack originally got interested in radio as a SWL while working on the radio merit badge in the Boy Scout. After building a Short-Wave receiver he then found was initially licensed in 1957 as a Novice (KN1IVY). During the 70's he got involved with the CB radio "craze" and  owned  a few CB radio stores in NH.  After a 25 year hiatus  until 1987, he retested and received his Extra. 
Jack & his  XYL have been married for 41 years now and we have achieved the glorious title of "empty-nesters" with four grown children and 4 grandchildren. During the day he runs a  manufacturers' representative sales business here in Colorado (Western Region Marketing, Inc.) which represents major US electronic equipment companies throughout the Rocky Mountain region. 
Other hobbies, interests and "time sinks" include writing the never ending family genealogy  and fishing . 

Fr. Johnny KD5LWU Cortez

I have three ham stations on full time alert.  Like most ham's I have a room at the house that I  call my ham shack.  In the shack, I  run my PSK31 beacon with a HTX-10 transmitter running 25 w to a A99.  For HF I use a Kenwood TS-520.  In addition I have a Ranger 2980 10 meter base station and a Ranger 2970DX 10 meter 150 watt mobile.

The second station is in the front room where I enjoy running digital modes so as not to disturb my wife while she enjoys TV.   A Kenwood TS-50S, a Yaesu 817 QRP and Icom 2 meter rig makes up the station.   Antennas consist of Inv "V" at 35' and a Windom longwire.

Lastly, I work as a manager of a store and am fortunate enough to run a Icom 706 MKII as well as vhf when time allows it.  Antenna is a long wire.

I have a home network which includes my own web server.  My home page can be found at http://hamcams.servepics.com .  In addition, I serve up a home hamcam.  I am the founder of RF HamCams on the Yahooo groups.  I have built all my computers and run Windows XP pro or Linux Ubuntu.

Mikes Montana QTH

W0MU Mike

W0MU – Mike Fatchett
I was licensed when I was 13.  My grandfather had been using CB radios with their RV group and he gave one to my father and me one year for Christmas.  We had a lot of fun with them.  A short time later he told me about Ham Radio and I was interested.  It just happened that the Junior High School where I was going has a ham as a teacher and they actually were having classes at the school on a regular basis.

I jumped in and purchased the Morse code tapes and sat many weeks in class and at home trying to learn the code.  I can still remember sitting at class and seeing my first word appear on my paper.  A short time later I finally passed the 5 WPM code test and took my Novice exam.  I passed the written with out any trouble.  Now I had to wait nearly twelve weeks for my ticket to arrive in the mail.  It finally arrived and I was issued the callsign, WD0GXR.

I began my contesting as a Novice and competed against my friend.  He had a much better station, as his dad was a ham.  We had a great time working contests and DXing as best we could as Novices.

About a year later I passed my general exam after a number of failed written exams.  The code was never really an issue for me.  I upgraded to Advanced and received the call, KC0FW and not too long after upgraded to Extra as NI0E.  I applied for W0MU under the vanity program.

10 meters was the mainstay for me for many years. The band was hot and I had a big 5 ele beam mounted on the roof.   I finally talked my folks into putting up a telephone pole and a triband TH7DXX and then they finally relented and I was able to erect a 70 ft tower.  I moved to 15m and built a home made wide spaced 4 ele 15 beam which worked well.  That came down and a 2 ele 40m beam went up with other tribanders.  I now live near Castle Rock and have a 70ft self-supporting tower with a 2 ele 40 and a 4 ele SteppIR beam.  I plan to stack another SteppIR beam lower on the tower for gain and SO2R functionality.  I also have a home in Montana where I have a 60 ft self-supporting tower and a 40m beam and SteppIR.

My first contest was the Novice Roundup.  I recall operating mostly DX contests for countries and having lots of fun.  I also was very active with 10-10 and collecting numbers and being involved with a couple of local 10-10 groups.  WD0FVV, Mike, lived up the road about a mile from me and got me interested in the 10-10 QSO parties.  Shortly there after I met Russ, N0RK, ex WB0IWL, now SK,  who I operated with extensively in Sweeptstakes Multi OP efforts.  We had a great time and his presence is missed around the shack.  K0RF, invited me up to operate the CQ WW DX SSB contest.  I was lucky enough to  pair up with W0UA on the 15m station.  George taught me a lot about contesting.  I also met N2IC, K0GU, W0YK, W0ZV/W4ZV, W0UN at Chuck’s and at many of the Mile Hi DX meetings.

My most memorable contests were when I operated from St. Kitts with K0GU and WB0MIV.  We setup a station at a beach house just off the ocean.  The first year we were narrowly beaten out and took 2^nd in the World as VP2KBU.  We return a couple of years later and with better antennas and planning we won the world Multi two with just three operators.  This was in the 80’s when computer logging did not exist.  All the logs were paper.  There is nothing like running a pileup on 10m with rates over 350 qso’s and hour!  Family and other priorities have not allowed a contest-pedition since but I would sure love to do it again soon!

I am primarily an SSB guy focused on the domestic contests since I don’t have the best location or station to hang with the big stations in DX contests.  RTTY my next favorite mode and then CW.   I have never been super proficient at CW but I am enjoying that mode more and more.

 I have two sons and my youngest, Brenden, KD0ASY,  passed his Technician test and we are working on upgrading to general.  We have operated a few contests together and we look forward to operating more together.  My oldest is 16 and has found girls, nuff said.

 I also enjoy passing out counties while mobile on my frequent trips to Montana. 

Colorado Station:

2 x Yaesu FT-2000’s

1 K3 soon

Alpha 99 amp

Acom 1000 amp

Microham MK2R+ SO2R controller.

4ele SteppIR at 70ft

2 ele Cushcraft XM240 40m beam at 85ft

Inv V on 80

Inv L on 160

Dx Eng 4 sq receiving array

Montana Station:

FT-1000MP

AL-811 amp

Microham Micro Keyer II

4ele SteppIR at 60ft

2 ele Cushcraft XM240 40m beam at 75ft

Inv V on 80

Inv L on 160

Dx Eng 4 sq receiving array