We’ve got nets for 2M FM, 440, one on 220 Friday night, 2M SSB 8 o’clock Sunday night but not much for 6M. We were discussing a 6M FM repeater up in Mondamin but no one knew whether it’s currently operational. . Larry WOPYA and Tom WDOBFO show up Sunday afternoon on the 6M net […]

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 […]

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. . […]

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! […]

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 […]

Greg Ross, N0GR, was presented with an award of appreciation for over 20 years as a local Volunteer Exam Coordinator (VEC) at the January 23rd SWIARC meeting. Greg is not sure when he first started as a VEC. He thinks it was “maybe 1988?” According to the ARRL website, as of February 2020, Greg has […]