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 […]
Darrell K. Peters AE0GU Darrell has been licensed since February 2015 when he passed both the Technician and General exams at Boone, IA. He then upgraded to Extra June 25, 2019, at Council Bluffs. Darrell’s interest in radio began as a kid with a crystal radio. He became more interested in Ham Radio when […]
Southwest Iowa Amateur Radio Club took to the field with 8 operators and 20 participants. Operations were conducted from the McClelland IA city park. Multiple antennas were used throughout the day including 80m and 40m dipoles, 20m end fed and Buddi Pole, 10m beam on 20’ trailer-mounted tower, dual-band VHF/UHF Yagis along with numerous other […]
W0NEU and KEOAEP tested a Princeton 36’ QRP end-fed spirally wound on a B&M 20 foot collapsible carbon fiber crappie pole ($22.00 on Amazon) and mounted to flag pole hitch mount. We found it to be resonant on 10, 20, 40M under 1.7 to one. First contact on 40m Omaha to Los Angeles. Antenna […]
The 2019 Celebrate CB parade this year was a great success! In continuing in its roughly 40-year history (we’re not exactly sure how long we’ve been doing this), the local amateur radio community, along with other organizations, have supported the parade organizers in their task of making sure that the parades take place as smoothly […]