Hidden Valleys Amateur Radio Club

04/14/2026

Don't miss the club meeting tonight! 7:00@Platteville Hospital!

02/24/2026

Spotter training scheduled - It is 100% virtual. No in person instruction this year. Must pre-register for 1 of the three sessions

🌪️🌩️Spring spotter training is almost upon us! Make plans to attend one of our 3 upcoming virtual spotter training classes in March and April! We are unable to offer in-person training this year. Classes are FREE and open to anyone with an interest in learning about severe weather.

To register for one of these sessions, visit weather.gov/arx/skywarn and click on the calendar entry's registration link.

02/12/2026

Valentine's Day is aproaching... are you getting your special someone a new radio?

11/18/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17hKiriSH9/

11/12/2025

The view of what the sun has thrown at us. "Christmas" northern lights plain and clear in the sky above Platteville.

11/11/2025

Happy Veterans Day to all that have served our country!

11/08/2025

Prairie du Chien now has a 70cm to 2m crossband repeater into Beetown.

If you are in PdC, we are using 446.450 mhz with a tone of 114.8 simplex. That should make it easy for UV5r HTs to join in the nets!

11/08/2025

Tri-band antenna swr scan... looks excellent at 14, 21, and 28mhz. (20m, 15m, and 10m)
The 200ft of coax does a lot at the in-between frequencies. The swr isnt actually that good. The cable losses reduce the returning wave so much that it appears to be low swr throughout the scan. While the radio will br happy, the radiating signal will only be decent where it resonates at the antenna. Elsewhere it will just warm the cable.

10/11/2025

Thanks to Kent Scheuerell, I have the tri-band yagi that I've wanted for a long time. I'm a little concerned the egg be**er are mounted too close, but we'll know soon enough. Waiting for an RG8x cable to arrive for the 2m egg be**er.
-KE1THA

09/21/2025

What are you doing for a Ham Radio project? I'm working on getting an antenna rotor up on my 30' tower.
Here's a test fit for the makeshift tower plates.
KE1THA

09/09/2025

Remember the meeting tonight!
Platteville Hospital, lower floor. 7:00pm

07/15/2025

Anyone interested in SSTV?
The ISS will be transmitting on 145.800 this week.

I use Robot36 on my phone or RX-SSTV on my pc... ISS tracking on my android phone is through Look4Sat app.

It's all free. Try it out and replt with your received images!