May DMRAA Meeting Highlights New Hamvention Venue
Mike, AEØMW gave a nice overview of the 2017 Hamvention. The location was new this year as the Hamvention moved to Xenia Ohio, just south of Dayton at the County Fairgrounds. Blessed with an amazing amount of rain the visitors managed to slog through the less than perfect grassy/mud lanes. The message that Mike gave […]
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The general meeting of the DMRAA is held the fourth Tuesday of each month in the Waveland Hall (2nd Floor) of the Plymouth Congregational Church on the corner of 42nd Street and Ingersoll Avenue in Des Moines. The meetings begin at 7 p.m. and last for approximately an hour. The meetings are free and you do not have to be a licensed ham to attend the meetings.
Meetings of the board and officers are held on the first Tuesday of the month at the Euclid Avenue Hy-Vee meeting room on the second floor, starting at 7 p.m.
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DMRAA Meetings
June 27th Meeting to Feature Presentation by DX Engineering via Skype
June 27th Meeting The June meeting will be a presentation via Skype by DX Engineering. Mike AEØMW will host Please join ...
DMRAA Events
DMRAA Field Day, June 24th – 25th, 2016
Field Day is June 25th, 2016. Yellow Banks County Park is the location for the 2017 edition of the annual ARRL ...
VE Testing
2017 Area Testing Sessions for Des Moines, Boone, Ames & Marshalltown
Des Moines 1:00 pm 2017 Dates July 16, 2017 September 17, 2017 November 19, 2017 Registration starts at 12:30 PM (no admittance ...
Chatter
Have You Tried the New Repeaters at Broadlawns Yet? Recently the Des Moines Radio Amateur’s Association and Polk County ARES placed two repeaters at Broadlawns Hospital in Des Moines. The DMRAA placed a Yaesu Fusion repeater on 145.130- tone 114.8. Polk County ARES added a Motorola MTR-2000 with a frequency of 444.050+ and a tone of 151.4. Both repeaters are local area repeaters, share […]
Fox Hunt in Ames June 11th The Story County Amateur Radio Club is hosting a Fox Hunt, or hidden transmitter hunt, on Sunday, June 11th in Ames, Iowa. We request all interested hunters assemble in the parking lot west of Hy-Vee Gas, Grand Avenue and Lincoln Way to register with the hunt leader and receive the rules briefing. Hunters may be individuals or teams and the […]
