Joel KOOQL was first to arrive at the March 20th mini Flea Market in Council Bluffs, bringing with him a long table and twice enough stuff to fill it. That’s his 2M SSB rig in the picture, offered at $150. In the past we’ve had 20 – 30 Hams show up, this time a couple […]

Saturday Noon Swap Net featured Nothing For Sale 12/19, but we did call for pics of your rig tuned to .82 and this was the first pic received, 2 mono band Kenwoods, TS711 and TS811 for 2M and UHF respectively, each tuned to a SWIARC repeater freq. However, the guy who took the pic was […]

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 […]