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.
Hey all howdy from sunny Florida. They said it would be nice and relaxing down here – so much for that. Thanks all for the prayers and thoughts – Ken AA0UU gave me a shout on IRLP today and passed well wishes along. Hams are supporting the local shelters. In our town the club listens […]
Due to a solar storm you may be able to see the Aurora Borealis tonight from your backyard in Council Bluffs IA. This morning there were two solar flares, the second being the most powerful in over a decade. The flares caused radio blackouts, and some transpolar flights were diverted for safety reasons.
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 […]