I've made a draft of the results for the 2003 14er event. Please consider this preliminary and give me any feedback, especially with regard to the list of mountains activated (and operator callsigns/n

There is another pair of awards that may be of interest to VHF-oriented radio amateurs in and around Colorado. The Worked Colorado Award is earned by contacting 6 of the 16 VHF grids in Colorado on 50

The Colorado 14er Event Task Force has set the date for the 2004 event as Sunday August 15th. Mark your calendars now! We are settling in on having the event on the Sunday of the third full weekend in

According to the second edition of "Colorado Fourteeners from Hikes to Climbs" by Gerry Roach ISBN 1-55591-412-8: Taylor Ranch allows climbing access seven days a week during June, July and August wit

Greetings all, I made two contacts from just below the peak of Mt Eolus during the 2003 14er event; one with KB0SNI on Mt Wilson and the other with my father, NOJXB, in Tucson via the Mega Link. I kno

Some of you may get duplicate messages! Sorry!! That probably just means I talk to you more! Daniel Hazen NØBN dghazen@... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

The first day of winter is Monday. With that we will begin the continuing effort to climb the 14ers in winter. The first this season will be Kit Carson and Challenger Peak. These are located in the Sa

In case any one is interested. Hiked in to Willow lake on Sunday with snow shoes and set up camp at 11,300. It snowed about 6" Sunday night. On monday we set out and climbed Challenger Point first an

Hello All, Well, my Dad just surprised me and invited me on a snowmobiling trip in Wyoming. I know it's a bit aways from Colorado, but I'm going to do some mountaintop DXing while there and just wante

I just happened to notice that Yaesu has a $100 rebate on the FT-817 QRP rig (HF plus 50 MHz, 144 MHz and 432 MHz - all mode). Gigaparts.com has the FT-817 priced at $569 for a net price of $469 !!!!

I'd like to announce the first recipients of the Colorado 14er Awards. But first, a big THANK YOU goes to Paul Ermisch for putting together the award certificate and agreeing to be the awards manager.

The ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes are coming up next weekend. Note that the date was incorrectly published in QST. The correct dates are Jan 24 to 26. This is a good chance to get on the air and see wh

We are going to try to climb Ellingwood and Blanca this weekend. We will approach from the Como Lake (west) side. The approach will be Saturday (1/24) with Sunday and/or Monday climbing days. Assuming

We drove down, hiked to Como lake and camped on Saturday. Left camp about 5am on Sunday. We reached the summit of Blanca about 9:30am. I made a call on 147.20 and 146.52 with no response. We made the

We drove down and hiked into Como Lake on Saturday. We left camp at 5am on Sunday and reached the summit of Blanca about 9:30am. I made a call on 147.20 and 146.52 with no response. We arrived on the

Hi BOB K0NR and everybody: How cold it was at the peak? 14000+ should be very cold; I think. Do you need any snow gear like rope, axes and so on??? On the contest days, I hike up to a small mountain w

The Colorado 14er Event Task Force is looking for a volunteer to be the Publicity Director for the 14er Event this year. The idea behind this is to ensure that we have strong coverage of the usual com

Chris K0CAO has agreed to take on the duty of webmaster for the Colorado 14er Event web site. Chris has kept the existing content but has totally redesigned the overall web site, with some really cool

We climbed Pikes Pk yesturday from the Crags Campground area. The last winter trip this year. I made a call from the summit and made one contact. That was with KC0NNT, Randy on 146.52. He was mobile i

Hi All, It was just brought to my attention that some of you folks who found yourselves moved here when I moved the mailing list a couple of years ago may not have gained access to the web features of