Tuesday OPS Net


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It’s Tuesday night at 9PM on 148.82 (no PL required). Officially it’s the (OPS) Outdoor, Prepping, and Survivalism net, but we also touch on conspiracies once in a while and of course the most insidious conspiracy is inflation, engineered by the people who manage our currency. Thus the picture, a ten Bolivar note from Venezuela […]

September 20, 2020

Manawa Display


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We’re doing this 3 Saturdays a month (not the 1st one – that’s Tobey Jack’s in Manawa) from around 9AM to 11 with either 1) just a gabfest, 2) mini flea mkt, or 3) a ‘program’ as we did August 29th, or 4) some combination of all those. In case you’re seeing this on SWIARC […]

August 29, 2020

Cans for .82


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THE TUNING OF A DUPLEXER A Saga of Suspense, Intrigue, Discovery, and Accomplishment By John WBOCMC and Paul WBOGXD While troubleshooting a noise issue on the 146.82 SWIARC repeater it was determined that the duplexer needed to be serviced. John WBOCMC volunteered to look it over if it were transported to his workbench. Anxious to […]

May 23, 2020

Nets vs Meetings


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Monday 7PM 145.29 8PM 147.39 PL 131 9PM 146.94 Tuesday 9PM 146.82 Wednesday 8PM 145.31 9PM 146.82 Thursday 8PM 147.36 Friday 10PM 224.76 PL 146 Saturday Noon 146.82 Sunday 8PM 144.250 USB 830PM 145.41 PL97 9PM 146.94

April 21, 2020

Tube Basics


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What the heck is the gas burner in my furnace doing in an article about tubes? Is it a misteak? Well, if you look closely at the upper right area to the little white ceramic insulator with a wire attached to it and a corresponding black ‘stick’ protruding into the right hand burner flame, (and […]

April 13, 2020

Used Radios


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The Saturday Noon Swap Net on .82 is perhaps the most popular net in town, begun over twenty (20) years ago on .94 by Pat KB0YEA and Bill KB0YOO. Items offered for sale are the priority traffic, but we discuss various subjects also with the result that the net often takes a full hour. . […]

April 12, 2020

2M SSB Sunday


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Locally (Omaha, Co/Blfs, etc.) we get on 2M SSB Sunday nights at 8PM. Don WOAF is the usual NC station, but others fill in. Sunday in mid April we had fourteen (14) guys check in and the band was nice and quiet (probably due to a little rain) so everyone could hear well. . Shock! […]

April 12, 2020

Kit Built mini Power Supply


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Mike KC0FAN, Football At Nebraska, went to the Heartland Hams sponsored Kit Building program in Glenwood IA recently, and has now built this cute little variable power supply. It’s only eighteen bucks on Amazon, and comes complete with a transparent plastic case to keep your fingers from contacting the 120VAC. He says: . It was […]

November 28, 2016