Stuff is’a Happn’in
From 10:00am to 5:00pm at the Lake Manawa State Park Craig W0NEU and participating ham operators will be activating the site for POTA Amateur Radio. This is the second tailgate radio event Craig has planned for SWIARC. Planning generally occurs on the Tuesday 8PM Net. Parks on the Air (POTA) was founded Sept. 15, 2010, […]
A great time was had by all at the 2018 Flea-Esta SW of Omaha this year. Here are some of the items featured. The annual Flea-esta hamfest is held in September each year in Springfield Nebraska, sponsored by the Aksarben Amateur Radio Club (www.aksarbenarc.org). Also in the picture standing in the middle left, green shirt, […]
The SWIARC 2018 Hamfest was a Big Success! Somewhat over 97 people attended McClelland Hamfest, perhaps a few more who didn’t bother signing in. Les WB0KFK of D&L Antenna showed up from KCMO to offer assorted wares, and Greg’s wife Rhonda W0RJR along with Rich’s XYL Patsy N1CE staffed the kitchen area. At the end […]
Leonard (KD0QFE) writes, “Our Technician License Class is starting October 7th, 2017. It will run over three Saturdays; October 7th, 14th & 28th from 8:30am to 4:30pm. All three sessions will be held in a conference room at Bellevue Medical Center, located at 25th street & Highway 370.”
Saturday (9/23) SWIARC regulars took time to chat with kids calling from Camp Wakonda as part of a Radio Scouting event. Dudley, KDØNMD offers his thanks to those operators as well as the SWIARC club for the use of the repeater. HF contacts were also made including a 15-year old girl with Voice of America.
George KD0NME, the club astronomer writes, “JoDee and I started for Casper, WY, but the Wx forecast changed and we decided on the centerline north of North Platte. We had thin clouds at 1st contact but they slowly dissipated before 2d contact and allowed us full visibility of the outer solar corona in our scopes.”
Pictures, video, and written accounts of your field experience on eclipse day will be collected and shared here on the Southwest Iowa Amateur Radio club web site. Did you work any HF stations? Did you make any VHF simplex contacts? Did you see totality or just cloudy? Email us your full report for the web […]
Last Saturday (5/6) while the SWIARC crew were at Waubonsie there was another radio field event happening. On 7.190 MHz (Radio Scout Frequency) AJ0R and the boy scouts operated ham radio from Lake Wanahoo (near Wahoo, 35 mi west of Bellevue).
This April the SWIARC club meeting was preceded by a smashingly large dinner gathering at the China Buffet and was succeeded by demonstration of a valuable piece of radio lab equipment, the spectrum analyzer.
Among the vintage classics at the Lincoln Hamfest / State Convention was this beautiful Hy-Gain 3750 HF transceiver acquired by Greg N0GR. Originally in the U.S. market this radio was sold as the National RJX-1011D and some identical units were even labeled Panasonic! See pictures from the Lincoln Hamfest and more on this mysterious […]