BMHA

Bicycle Mobile Hams of America

BMHA is an Adventure Cycling Association
 affiliated club


http://www.adventurecycling.org

Our Founder
Hartley Alley NA0A
(Silent Key 2001)

About Hartley


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Where to go for discussion and help

Announcements

  • Our latest Newsletter (Vol 17, No 1; February 2008)

  • Dayton Hamvention 2008 BMHA Forum

    The 18th Annual BMHA (Bicycle Mobile Hams of America) forum will be held at the Dayton Hamvention on Sunday May 18th, 2008.  Mike Nickolaus, NF0N, will be forum moderator and speaker.

    More details including forum time and room location
    (update:  April 9, 2008 -- the room for the Forum has changed from room 2 to ROOM 5)

      

  • RAGBRAI

    For those who have an interest in RAGBRAI, Registers Annual Great
    Bike Ride Across Iowa, the route for 2008 has been announced.

    Here are the start, overnight towns and ending town:

    Missouri Valley (north of Council Bluffs about 20 miles)
    Harlan
    Jefferson
    Ames
    Tama-Toledo
    North Liberty
    Tipton
    Le Claire

    This is the first time RAGBRAI has ended at Le Claire.

    Team Megacycles, a team of about 12-15 Ham's will be riding again
    with our support team.  Several of us hope to have APRS aboard the
    bike again so look for us.

    The website for RAGBRAI is: www.ragbrai.org

    Mike, NF0N
     

  • Our latest Newsletter.
     

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

  • All 48 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  • The BMHA Survey is now available (but out of date.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

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

Good Press

  • The Big Ride, W6FO
    WorldRadio, September 2000 -- pp 16..18.


    We moved our website in April of 1999.  Since then, we have had

    Hit Counter visitors to this page.

IN REMEMBRANCE

Hartley Alley, NA0A passed away in June of 2001 and became a Silent Key.   Hartley was the founder of the BMHA, and served as its Chairman for the first twelve years.

   The full obituary   

 

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