Check into the Iowa Wireless Clubs ARES Net Every ...SATURDAY... Night a 9PM CDT on 145.310- PLL tone 114.8
NEW 40M TOWER PADS poured
Tuesday Evening Ready for 40 M
beam to go up this Weekeend..
THE IWC PLANS TO SAIL THIS BEAM SATURDAY MORNING BEFORE OUR TESTS AT 2pm in Ankeny...
IWC
CLUB LIKES TO GIVE HAM RADIO DEMOS
The Iowa Wireless Club was asked by the Nevada Iowa...
4H group to come up and give a talk about ham radio Saturday September 12th, 2009...
 Joe WØIW along with Karl KDØHFQ the president of the club, along with Nathan the vice president of the club, and also the Media director of the club Brian KØSXY to take pictures etc..
Nathan Showing Zach how to call cq during the contest...
 Joe WØIW had a better idea instead of giving a somewhat boring talk to a bunch of 12/13/14/15 year olds for a hour or two. Joe brought up the clubs TS-2000 & the Icom 756 pro and enough coax & wire to put up two 20 meter dipoles, and have the kids build the dipoles and teach them about Ham Radio thru a practical demonstration like a field day.
 Well it was huge success. We heard tell that our meeting was the highlight so far of the year and a few kids are even wanting to get their ham licenses it looks like from our practical ham radio demo..
Nathan hooking up a ground to show the kids what exactly goes into setting up a station.
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Several Pictures of Karl & Nathan Showing the
kids the ropes in contesting...
The IWC had a blast teaching these youngsters about ham radio & contesting...
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THIS WEEKEND BIG WORK WEEKEND
FOR THE IWC ALL
ENCOURAGED TO HELP OUT!!
Saturday & Sunday September
we plan to stack our 40m tower up to 80-90 feet high & Guy them..
THEN WE PLAN TO PUT THE 40M beam up top
( ALL GOD WILLING AND MOTHER NATURE IS NOT TO WINDY )
Please try to come down to help get these small projects off our punch list
http://www.ve1dx.net/WARC/
GREAT EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE WOULD
LIKE TO GET DONE THIS WEEKEND
73'
HEADING TO EASTERN IOWA
OCTOBER 4th (( THIS SATURDAY ))
IWC president Karl Andersen
to be awarded in the
IOWA YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR AWARD !
in a ceremony October 4th at West liberty, Iowa Hamfest
October 4th 2009
KD0HFQ our own Iowa Wireless Clubs president was nominated and will receive a special award from the ARRL and Tom Brehmer, N0LOH Iowa Section Manager The 2009 Iowa Section Youth Amateur Operator Award. Karl was nominated along with 2 other young hams, and he will be receiving an award October 4th along with the other two boys at the West liberty Hamfest..
KARL KDØHFQ...
- The nominees were...
- Ben Fiedler, KDØDOX, of Cedar Rapids
- Joey Freeland, KDØHFZ, of Central City
- Karl Anderson, KDØHFQ, of Ankeny
The presentation of the 2009 Iowa Section Youth Amateur Operator Award will be at the Southeast Iowa Hamfest in West Liberty on Sunday, October 4 at 12:30pm KArl & Joe WØIW & their families will be there.
Karl who was just recently elected the President of The Iowa Wireless Contest Station. Feels that it is a great honor to jut be nominated for young ham of the year for Iowa and he said he feels that it is an awesome opportunity forhim. He said he cant wait until we start contesting its gonna be fa blast seeing the whole contest station thing happen he said!
73 KD0HFQ
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So why do we need the Iowa Wireless Contesting & DX
Club
Why does Des Moines, Iowa need another club, or another organization for Ham radio operators? That's a great question and to answers that here's the run down. The DMRAA & the ARTS club work very well for what they were created for. The DMRAA or WØAK club repeater 146.940- pll 114.8 usually helps to coordinate the local Hamfests, and is the oldest and most established club in central Iowa. The DMRAA, was born as far back as anyone can remember a ham radio club in Des Moines has ever existed. The DMRAA does public service events monthly, as well as promotes the VEC program, and they hold monthly organized meetings down at the science center of Iowa.
So what about the ARTS club, well they are on 147.075+ pll 114.8 so what do they do to fit in? Well the ARTS picks up the slack the DMRAA might let go, and the ARTS club provides & maintains a highly successful repeater linked system connecting almost all of central Iowa to the national weather service. These repeater systems save lives, and allow us all to enjoy a brilliantly connected system of repeaters all over Iowa so we can keep in touch, and have fun, and hold necessary ARES meeting on both club repeaters Sunday nights at 8pm, and when the need arises they are the backbone of our ARES & SKYWARN systems here in Iowa with the National weather service.
Holy cow what's left after those two clubs pretty much have cleaned up ? Well besides Field day which both clubs come together, and participate in every year the IOWA WIRELESS CLUB...IWC wants to compete in formal world wide DX and Amateur radio contesting from here in central Iowa. No body locally has really created a wide open contesting club to teach central Iowa hams the fun of contesting. Oh sure there's some big guns West of Des Moines, and a few individuals all around the city who contest, and have little clubs going. However there is no highly advertised contesting club to be found except in other parts of the state. So out of necessities breed invention. Besides Contesting & DXing the IWC wants to hold monthly meetings on Antenna building to help grow the club station, and hold monthly kit building sessions to teach new hams the art of electronics and kits. Also the IWC wants to hold monthly VEC testing sessions which will help grow the ham population around this area. So now you have it, the real reasons another kind of club might be born. So the IWC wants to provide another outlet for hams here in central Iowa to come together and just have fun
Top Ten things you should know about the IWC .
(1) The IWC is located in the Des Moines, Iowa area.
(2) The IWC was born out of the need to have a contest club.
(3) All club meetings & activities fall on weekends only.
(4) The IWC has no formal membership dues.
(5) Each month we hold a kit builders or antenna builders night.
(6) Several times a year we hold holiday potlucks, and party's.
(7) Importantly we hold dry run nights where we train for contests
(8) We hold antenna raising parties to build contesting antennas.
(9) Our club owns 2 repeaters & we encourage all to use them.
(10) The IWC always welcomes new hams young & old. |
So what's in it for you?
(1). You are joining a local Contest & DX club made up of other serious minded contesting hams all wanting to work together to contest from Iowa.
(2) The IWC is light on meetings & heavy on having fun & Contesting!
(3) You don't need your own equipment the IWC has everything you need to contest. Radios & antennas and the people to get you in the contest game. The IWC competes in at least one Amateur Radio contest a month which you can participate in.
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SATURDAY NIGHT IWC ARES CLUB NET 9PM to 10PM
Held every Saturday night at 9:00pm on
145.310- PLL 114.8
Listen on Echolink as well Node # 3897 & # 38971
SUNDAY NIGHT HAM RADIO NEWS NIGHTS 7pm to 10PM
Listen to our Ham Radio News reports Every Sunday Night
( ARRL NEWS / The Rain Report / Amateur Radio News Line )
We play all these news services every Sunday Night starting at 7:00pm on the 145.310- pll 114.8
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