Amateur radio news from around Colorado and the broader ham world — new gear, rule changes, contests, and what’s happening on the bands. Curated for the club; every item links to the original source.
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WeatherXM D2 Mesh Brings Solar Weather Sensing to LoRa Meshes
WeatherXM has unveiled the D2 Mesh, a solar-powered, off-grid weather-station kit designed to send local readings over LoRa using Meshtastic or MeshCore rather than Wi-Fi or a cellular plan. Mesh America reports that one firmware build can also use WeatherXM’s own LoRa transport, with the active protocol selected at runtime without rebuilding…
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EOSS Details Amateur-Radio Plan for October Student Balloon Flight
Edge of Space Sciences has scheduled EOSS-406, a high-altitude balloon flight carrying student experiments, for Saturday, October 17, from Deer Trail. The Rocky Mountain Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association is sponsoring the flight, which EOSS describes as a single 1,500-gram balloon payload. Sunday, October 18, is listed as the alternate…
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SkyHubLink Adds Crook UHF Repeater to Its Colorado Network
A new UHF repeater has joined the SkyHubLink system in northeastern Colorado. SkyHubLink reports that N2SKY at Crook is now on the air and linked, adding a new access point for the network between Sterling and Julesburg along Interstate 76. The repeater uses 449.575 MHz with a 103.5 Hz CTCSS access tone.…
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CLARA Sets September Meeting, Colorado QSO Party and Fox Hunt
Chaffee Lake Amateur Radio Association has scheduled three September activities for central Colorado operators: a technical club meeting on Tuesday, September 8, the Colorado QSO Party on Saturday, September 12, and a fox hunt on Saturday, September 26. The meeting begins with a 6 p.m. social hour followed by the 7 p.m.…
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MeshCore 1.49.0 Adds Repeater Path Tracing and Network Controls
MeshCore Companion App version 1.49.0 adds a direct way to trace the current route to and from a repeater, giving users a clearer view of how their traffic is crossing an off-grid LoRa mesh. Although the underlying app release arrived August 22, Mesh America published a detailed account of the changes today,…