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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]