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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Colorado ARES schedules statewide emergency communications exercise for October 24
Colorado ARES has scheduled its statewide Amateur Radio Emergency Service Simulated Emergency Test for Saturday, October 24, 2026. The date was announced September 21 by the ARRL Colorado Section, which directs participants to the Colorado ARES site for exercise information as it is released. The announcement establishes a statewide planning target rather…
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CMRG Sets October Hybrid Annual Meeting in Colorado Springs
The Cheyenne Mountain Repeater Group has scheduled its 2026 annual meeting for Saturday, October 17, at 10:00 a.m. Mountain Time. The session will be held in person at the Pikes Peak Regional Office of Emergency Management, 3755 Mark Dabling Boulevard in Colorado Springs, with a Zoom option for remote participation. CMRG asks…
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Colorado Springs club demonstrates a Raspberry Pi path to a DMR hotspot
Garden of the Gods Amateur Radio Club reported that Mike Mennor, KF0UTU, returned for the second part of a September presentation on building DMR hotspots. The Colorado Springs-area club said the session focused on putting a low-power hotspot on the air with a Raspberry Pi: installing the software image, connecting the computer…
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MeshCore separates U.S. and Canadian network presets
MeshCore has separated the shared USA/Canada recommended preset into distinct regional choices, according to a September 9 report from Mesh America. The USA preset retains its existing defaults. The new Canada preset keeps the same listed radio parameters—910.525 MHz, spreading factor 7, 62.5 kHz bandwidth and coding rate 5—but applies a three-byte…
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SafecomLink brings a PACTOR-focused client to WiMo
SafecomLink and German radio-equipment retailer WiMo have announced SafecomLink for Pactor – Hamradio Edition, a software client intended to pair an SCS PACTOR modem with a standard HF transceiver. The announcement says the edition is available through WiMo now, either bundled with an SCS DR-9400 modem or as a standalone two-year or…