McClelland 2024


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The new guy won the radio. Dell KFONSP got the FTM-500. It was a great show, nice weather, with 105 guys signing in, maybe a few more who didn’t wait and brushed past the sign-in sheet. Joel KEOQGD ran the coffee shop (taking ‘donations’ rather than fixed prices), and allll tables sold, even the one […]

March 2, 2024

Free Flea rpt.


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Outside of town on the Saturday Free Flea in January it was minus 16 or so, but inside the garage with the gas grill going it was above freezing, and at the end of the morning a balmy 75 deg F according to the garage door opener time and temperature display. Neither the twenty dollar […]

January 20, 2024

January 2024 Club Presentation


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            Bring Your Station Parameters listed below to the January Club meeting on Jan 25th at 7:00 pm and there will be help offered to complete a station evaluation.             The FCC introduced new Human Exposure to RF Energy Rules in 1996, in 2021 these rules were changed and the existing exemptions for Amateur Radio […]

January 17, 2024

SWIARC 2023 Christmas Dinner


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SWIARC 2023 Christmas Dinner This year it was held at Sugars Lounge and Diner in Council Bluffs, IA on December 20th around 6:30 pm. We had a total of 20 people show up. There was one single gift exchange between Art KBØUWR and Greg NØGR (didn’t get any pictures or info). Thank you to everyone […]

December 28, 2023

Old RCA Radio 1939


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Our favourite vendor, Les WBOKFK of D&L Antenna, just bought an old 1939 radio made by RCA. He says: I bought a 1939 RCA K-130 in perfect condition today 100 bucks! Last time I saw one was 2nd grade November 1963. The teacher came to all of us weeping she had us listen to the […]

November 18, 2023

HF Pirates


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In case you missed the October program at the Omaha club meeting put on by Joe KONEB on Pirate radio and other oddities on HF (there were only 20 guys who showed up) here’s a great site for such info suggested by SWIARC member Rob NOSNW: HFunderground.com . Joe NEB has been doing a program […]

October 24, 2023

Manawa 51 Merc


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No one brought any radios to the Lake Manawa gathering on Saturday 09.09 but Joel KOOQL (One Quart Low) brought his father’s 1951 Mercury ‘woody’ station wagon and let us look around. The chrome in front, headlight rings and such, appear either like new or re-chromed. Wood looks really good, but has it had an […]

September 10, 2023

Mtg Highlights


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August meeting featured Craig KDOYTI with 2 vertical antennas, both easy to set up like at a park or for Field Day. In the picture here, Craig is putting together his JPC-12 center loaded vertical. It comes in a bag that’d fit easily into your laptop computer carry-on bag, and screws together in half a […]

August 25, 2023

Solar Now


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In the late 1970s Harold KOJBC had a solar station, just a panel or 2 with a battery for his Ten-Tec station. (The Ten-Tec Triton – now called the 540 because Motorola owned the Triton name – is a 5 band, hundred Watt HF rig.) Those old radios (including the Kenwood 520) weren’t synthesized, and […]

August 18, 2023

John’s in QST p.50


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John WBOCMC has a tech article in the August 2023 QST magazine on p.50. He made an audio signal generator, engineered it, and even made the circuit board himself. Wait, it gets better. He’s making his own ADF (Automatic Direction Finder) system, and to test it he needed 2 audio signals in quadrature (same freq […]

August 9, 2023