Welcome to the website for Mike Ritz, W7VO
and Shelley Ritz, W7VOX
 

We support the DX Code of Conduct
(Click logo above for more info)

 We are located about 25 miles (40 km) NNW of Portland, Oregon, USA, on about 2 rural acres (0.8 hectares) about half way between the towns of Scappoose and St. Helens, in the small berg of Warren. (Our mailing address is Scappoose, so we use that for our station location.) Since we are in an unincorporated area, there are no antenna or operating restrictions to worry about here!

For those that are wondering, "Scappoose" is an old  American Indian term for "gravelly plain". It is pronounced like "papoose", the old American Indian child carrier.
 
Click here for more information about Scappoose, Oregon

After 35 years of living in the Silicon Valley area of California within the confines of a small city lot, in July 2007 it became time to move to the country where there is room for horses, chickens, vintage motorcycles and race cars, and of course, lots of antennas. We have never looked back!

The station is equipped with 3 operating positions, and is sometimes used by the local Columbia Amateur Radio Association (CARA), N7EI, for club events. One is the annual 7th Area QSO Party contest using the special callsign of N7J, where we put relatively rare Columbia County on the air with mostly new hams, some of which had never been on HF before!

Click here for a slideshow of our most recent 2013 7QP effort!

                                                               (Left to Right, KD7LHB, W7VOX, KC7OHF )

Please click on one of  the menu options on the left to check out the website and station.

Here is the latest HF propagation data from N0NBH, and wishing you good DX!

Look up a callsign on QRZ.com here:

QRZ callsign lookup: Callsign lookups provided by qrz.com

73;

Mike, W7VO, and Shelley, W7VOX

Website last updated: May 9, 2013

Web site and all contents © Copyright Mike Ritz, W7VO, 2009-2013, All rights reserved.Free website templates