Where to go for discussion and help

• Our forum at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BMHA/ is where you can ask questions, get answers, and participate.

Announcements

• NEW DIRECTIONS -- Please see our announcement or attend HamVention.
   

• We are working on the website.  Stay tuned for updates
  The online roster has been updated.
   

• HamVention 2007 is approaching -- and we will have a BMHA forum
  
  The 17th Annual BMHA (Bicycle Mobile Hams of America) forum will be held at the Dayton Hamvention.
  
  Date: May 20, 2007
  Time: 9:00 - 10:30 am
  Room: 5
  [note that the room and time have been updated since initially published]
  
  As announced earlier, our featured speaker is Budd, W3FF, who will be showing pictures of bicycle mobile setups including his own.  Budd is well known for Buddipole Antennas, a manufacturer of lightweight, versatile hf portable dipole antenna and vertical antenna systems for amateur radio.
  
  Budd would welcome pictures and a short write-up of your bicycle mobile setup. He will select as many as he can for the forum. Send your picture(s) and short write-up to w3ff@aol.com and copy me at nf0n@arrl.net. Along with Budd showing these pictures at the Forum, I would like to include them in a future BMHA Newsletter. It might be good to confirm your permission to use your pictures.
  
  Russ Dwarshuis, KB8U, will be forum moderator and speaker.
  Other speakers are Russ Dwarshuis, KB8U and Norm Huber, N9ZKS.
  
         Mike, NF0N
         BMHA Secretary/Treasurer
    

• All 47 past issues of the BMHA newsletter are now indexed and searchable.  Click the "newsletters" link in the "content" section on the left.

• The BMHA Survey is now available (but out of date.  Send suggestions for a new survey to the webmaster)

• The latest newsletter is now available and free to all hams.  It will be delivered (electronically or via mail) to paid BMHA members, and has been announced on the Yahoo!Group.  As usual, in the future newsletters will be available to paid-up members.

• All past issues of the BMHA Newsletter have been scanned and are available on CD.
  For the latest website update, check out our What's New page.

Resources

• Take the BMHA Survey.  Watch here to learn when it is updated!

• Access the Membership Database!  Check it out!

• Explore the Index of BMHA Newsletter issues.

• BMHA electronic forums:

  • BMHA forum

  • Bicycle Mobile topic area on Topica (not directly BMHA, but relevant!)
    "Cycling and Amateur Radio Operations" (bikeham)

• RIG PHOTOS!  Check out the "files" (not 'photos') area of the Yahoo!Group.

Public Service Announcements

• Invitation from HFpack

BMHA'ers are invited to join HFpack in their "on the air" activities.  Priority is always given to pedestrian, bicycle, portable, and QRP operators, although base stations and mobiles of any power level are also welcome.

Please see the item on our Events page for schedules and frequencies.

• Ian G3ZHI writes:

 I am very interested in making bicycle-mobile contacts using Internet relays.  Please go to http://www.ipass.net/~jimprice/irlp/ to see if there is an IRLP repeater near you that is linked to the UK via the Internet.  If there is, then let's make a sked for a bike/bike QSO!

More information is available by following our EVENTS link on the left of this page. 

• Lifetime Members:

  • Hartley Alley [Silent Key], NA0A (BMHA founder) elected Lifetime Member by the board.

  • Jean Alley (Hartley's wife) also elected Lifetime Member.

  • Hartley and Jean join Mary Duffield (WA6KFA) in this elite status!
     

• No other announcements at this time.  Contact the Webmaster to have yours included!

Club Content

• BMHA electronic forums:

  • BMHA eGroup (this has active traffic)

  • Bicycle Mobile topic area on Topica (not directly BMHA, but relevant!)
    "Cycling and Amateur Radio Operations" (bikeham)

• Our membership -- sorted by ZIP code and State/City so you can find other BMHAers in your neighborhood.
  [In order to protect our member's privacy, street addresses and phone number are not given -- you will need to consult a callbook such as http://www.qrz.com if the member wishes to share this information.]
   

• Interesting  links:

  • Bicycle Navigation by GPS
    [Not affiliated with BMHA]  

  •  The Bay Area Biking and Eating society (BABES)
    [Not affiliated with BMHA -- but they are bicycling hams!]  Thanks to BMHA member Michael Wimble (KM6WP) for the link]
    Yes, this is an old link.  But it is still the best we have!  Check it out.

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