Bonus Points:   100% emergency power                                     300   Public information table                                     100   Educational activity              […]

            Bring Your Station Parameters listed below to the January Club meeting on Jan 25th at 7:00 pm and there will be help offered to complete a station evaluation.             The FCC introduced new Human Exposure to RF Energy Rules in 1996, in 2021 these rules were changed and the existing exemptions for Amateur Radio […]

SWIARC 2023 Christmas Dinner This year it was held at Sugars Lounge and Diner in Council Bluffs, IA on December 20th around 6:30 pm. We had a total of 20 people show up. There was one single gift exchange between Art KBØUWR and Greg NØGR (didn’t get any pictures or info). Thank you to everyone […]

KØSWI 442.225 FUSION REPEATER’S NEW HOME The good news first. The 442.225 Fusion repeater is up and operational at full power at the Memorial Park site. Initial coverage reports are excellent, all we could have hoped for, and maybe even more. Yes, we were intending to place the 82 repeater there but the repeater gods […]

AN EXPLANATION OF “2A MINUS B” INTERFERENCE Paul Blain WB0GXD   Someone recently asked me about an intermodulation problem that had occurred from a local 2-meter net on 147.42 MHz that interfered with the operation of the local 146.82 MHz repeater. The interference would be present when some but not all operators on the simplex […]

Location change for the Saturday Morning Breakfasts in Council Bluffs The new Location is Sugar’s Diner, 2725 E Kanesville Blvd.  It’s located in the same strip mall as Bomgaars.  Take the Highway 6 exit from I-80 near Iowa Western Community College and turn west. Due to some recent changes in the dining area at Hy-Vee, […]

Phase 2 of the SWIARC 146.82 repeater upgrade has been completed!  As of March 19th, 2020, the 82 repeater is up and running as a single site system at the Simms location.  The new ARCOM RC-210 controller has been installed, the programming has been loaded, and the system is ready for traffic! The new controller […]

Greg Ross, N0GR, was presented with an award of appreciation for over 20 years as a local Volunteer Exam Coordinator (VEC) at the January 23rd SWIARC meeting. Greg is not sure when he first started as a VEC. He thinks it was “maybe 1988?” According to the ARRL website, as of February 2020, Greg has […]

On Sunday, September 14, 2019, Southwest Iowa Amateur Radio Club held the annual club fall picnic at Lake Manawa.  The weather was great and the food was good and with 22 members participating.  This was also a Parks on the Air (POTA) event as well.  Band conditions were less than favorable and with storm activity […]

SWIARC Picnic and POTA Saturday, September 14th, 2019 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM Lake Manawa State Park (Picnic Shelter #2). (see map below) Join us for a fall day of radio play and camaraderie.  This will be an event for members, family and anyone who has ever (or wanted to) Ker-Chunked the club repeater Traditional […]