Field Day starts on Saturday, June 28th, 2025, and SWIARC will gather at Bob WØRJE’s QTH again. The radio and antenna setup will be on Friday before the SWIARC Club Meeting on June 27th. Food and water will be provided on Saturday, but if you want anything else, bring your drinks and your radio(s), antennas, […]
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Date: March 1, 2025 Time: 8 AM-Noon Location: 117 Main Street McClelland, Iowa 51548 Admission at the door: 5.00 dollars Tables: 12.00 dollars which includes admission (email hamfest@swiradio.org for table information) Talk-in station: 442.225 TSQL 136.5 (Analog Only/Preferred) Main door prize: FTM-500DR mobile radio and must be present to win Flyer attachment: 2025_SWIARC_Hamfest Here’s a […]
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 […]