Greetings and Welcome to W0LTA's home page.
W0LTA is the vanity call sign as granted to me by the Federal Communications Commission, Washington D.C. on May 13, 2003.
My previous call was KC0OMM
I hold Technician privileges with this license.
My name is Rick Patterson and I live in the small town of Firestone, Colorado. We are located about 45 minutes north of Denver, Colorado
The coordinates are N40 07.324 W104 56.155
I will be returning to enhance this site as time allows.
Here is a list of some of my favorite ham radio, weather and Hot Air Ballooning related web sites.
Information about Lightning safety may be found here
For current weather from my weather station at findu.com click here For the NOAA Mesonet display Click here
Click here for real-time data from the weather station in my back yard
Click here of the history of the weather in my backyard
For a report on the quality of my data Click here
To learn more about CWOP Click here
Send me any comments or suggestions here.
THANK-YOU need's to be said for the two "Elmer's" listed below.
Thank-you to KI0RE for organizing a class to teach me the basics.
A special thank-you to N0NTH for his help in encouraging my involvement in this hobby!
This page was originally created on February 2, 2003 as KC0OMM's web page and on June 6, 2003 I converted it to W0LTA's web page. From 02/02/03 until 03/01/06 this site was hosted on qsl.net. Thank-you Al Waller for use of your servers.
It was last updated on July 23, 2018 .
Thanks for visiting and come again