News last updated: Tue, November 17, 2009 at 9:23 PM ET
IA Section News
November is here! Pass the gravy, please!
The Tenth Region SSB Traffic Net is
meeting seven days a week in a Cycle 1 & 2 format at
10:00am and 3:45pm Central Time on 7.275 MHZ. Their purpose is to
handle traffic to, from and within the Tenth Region. They need
operators from all sections to check-in and handle the traffic for
their respective section or bring traffic from their section for relay.
For more information, contact Jerry L Clark KC0VTT, 10th Region Traffic Net Manager at kc0vtt@arrl.net.
Ralph Wallio, W0RPK is a member of the ARRL 600m WD2XSH Experimental Group (see the group's web pages starting at http://www.500kc.com and ARRL QEX article, The ARRL 500-kHz Experiment:WD2XSH, via http://www.arrl.org/qex/2007/07/raab.pdf).
A significant goal of this experiment is to provide operating
experience toward a new Amateur Radio 600m band. The WD2XSH group
has been on-the-air since September 15, 2006 with 17 stations
accumulating over 30,000 hours of operating experience. As of
July, several new stations have been added to the FCC experimental
license including Ralph's station operating as WD2XSH/34. Ralph's
participation in this experiment includes testing of a low power
portable 600m station for ground-wave digital networking. This
station, operating south of Des Moines near Indianola, is ready to go
on-the-air for extensive digital error rate testing. See http://showcase.netins.net/web/wallio/WD2XSH-34.htm
for station photos. Ralph invites receive-only stations across the Iowa
Section to participate in these tests. Receiving stations will need to
be equipped with 500kHz receivers, antennas and PCs running digital
mode soundcard software such as DigiPan and MultiPSK. These stations
would be set up to receive his time-stamped digital beacon during
mid-day hours via ground-wave propagation. Received beacon data
files would be saved and sent to W0RPK as e-mail attachments for
analysis which would be shared with all receiving stations. Hams across
our Iowa Section are welcome to indicate interest in this 600m digital
ground-wave experiment via e-mail to Ralph Wallio, W0RPK, w0rpk@arrl.net
first to discuss receiving station equipment and software and then, as
stations are ready, schedule initial test transmissions.
Congratulations to Joey Freeland, KD0HFZ of Central City, Iowa! Joey is
winner of the 2009 Iowa Section Youth Amateur Operator Award! Joey
received a certificate, aa ARRL Repeater Directory and an ARRL
Handbook! Runners-up, Ben Fiedler, KD0DOX, of Cedar Rapids
and Karl Anderson, KD0HFQ, of Ankeny each received
certificates and an ARRL Repeater Directory. All of these young
hams are winners, as they have
each demonstrated tremendous dedication to Amateur Radio through
their
activities! The presentation of the 2009 Iowa Section Youth
Amateur Operator Award was held at the Southeast Iowa Hamfest in
West
Liberty on Sunday, October 4th.
Want to have some serious fun? Try something different? Make new
friends? All while giving something back to Amateur Radio and going
above the call in supporting your League? Join the ARRL Field
Organization, the family of official League volunteers with traditions
stemming back to the earliest days of Amateur Radio. The League is
volunteer-based, and the Field Organization serves as its backbone. We have a serious need in the Iowa Section for a State Government Liaison, Local Government Liaisons, Technical Specialists, and Public Information Officers. Find out more by visiting http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/org/! Then contact me, please. Thank you!
I
invite you to visit a fairly new ham radio message board based in Iowa,
but open to the World Wide Web. It's the project of Scott
Schwendinger, NG0P, of Bernard, Iowa. On the site you'll find amateur
radio news and plenty of message boards for you to
share ideas and opinions with your fellow hams. You can talk
about
your latest antenna project, set up schedules, share humorous stories,
buy sell or trade equipment, and more. Registration is free and easy.
Visit http://www.hamradioparadise.com!
Let's take a look at some great upcoming events:
K4M DX-pedition! - Craig Thompson, K9CT, will give a presentation
about the very successful Midway Island Dx-pedition that took
place in October, on Tuesday, December 1st, in the American
Red Cross building, 1100 River Drive, in Moline, IL. Doors open at
6:00pm and the presentation will start at 7:00pm. There will be snacks
and beverages available! It's free and brought to you by the members of
the Green River Valley Amateur Radio Society. * Please use the west
side parking lot. *
A joke? OK, here goes:
Q: Why don't fuses ever go steady?
A: Because they only go out once!
73,
Tom Brehmer, N0LOH
Iowa Section Manager
Scott Haney N0GUD, right, accepts an Amateur Radio Week proclamation from Iowa Governor, Chet Culver.
ARRL Iowa Section Manager Tom Brehmer, N0LOH, makes a contact on W1AW during the Section Manager's Workshop.
2009 Iowa Section Youth Amateur Operator Award recipient, Joey Freeland, KD0HFZ of Central City, Iowa.
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