Radio Iowa reports:
A missile range instrumentation ship named after a western Iowa man, who’s considered to be the “Father of Electronic Warfare,” will be christened Saturday afternoon in Mississippi. Howard O. Lorenzen died February of 2000, in Washington State, at the age of 87. Lorenzen grew up and graduated from Atlantic before obtaining a Bachelor [...]
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver has signed a proclamation declaring June 20-26 as “Amateur Radio Week” in celebration of the Field Day activities taking place on June 26 and 27 across the United States.
The Des Moines Radio Amateurs’ Association (DMRAA), Iowa’s largest and oldest amateur radio organization, will be joining the Des Moines Amateur Radio Technical [...]
Kevin Sanders, K0KDS, gave a presentation on social networking and online tools for amateur radio at the general DMRAA meeting on May 25. If you missed the presentation, you can download the presentation in the following formats:
PPT PowerPoint format (10 megabytes, in a ZIP file)
PDF Adobe Reader format (42 megabytes)
The websites that were featured in [...]
The annual ballot for the 2010 Des Moines Radio Amateurs’ Association has been set by the nomination committee, as per the DMRAA constitution. The election will be held at the May general meeting on May 25 in the Waveland Hall at Plymouth Congregational Church, 42nd and Ingersoll in Des Moines. The meeting begins at 7 [...]
The Cyclone Amateur Radio Club (W0ISU) will be holding a special event station this Saturday to celebrate VEISHEA 2010, under the callsign W0I. The club’s special event station will be part of the CARC display in VEISHEA Village on Central Campus from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information, visit the CARC W0I website at [...]
A team of five representing the Des Moines Amateur Radio Association assisted with the 2010 Iowa Public Television Festival fundraiser, manning the phones to take pledges from donors across the midwest. The volunteers worked the final shift of the fundraiser on March 21, from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Overall, the Festival raised approximately $1.5 million [...]
Several Des Moines amateur radio operators and DMRAA members were featured in the April 2010 edition of QST with their take on creatively homebrewed digital antennas. The article features commentary from George Noble KK7FM, Mark Campbell W0GZR, and also pictorials of homebrewed antennas from Lowell Abarr KB6SDI, Martha Driessnack KC7VUJ, and Tom Reis N0VPR. The [...]
DMRAA member Mike Greenwood KC4VG has returned from his DXpedition in St. Lucia that we reported on last month. He has uploaded a nice photo gallery of his trip that can be accessed by clicking here. Mike managed the logistics and planning for the team. The maintained a blog throughout the trip, which can be viewed by clicking here.
Want to be identified with your callsign custom-embroidered on shirts with the DMRAA logo? Gold Medal Ideas has agreed to create custom-embroidered garments with your callsign and club logo at an affordable price, with a portion of the profit going back to the club. For more details, visit http://www.goldmedalideas.com/shop/category.aspx?catid=130.
The National Weather Service in Johnston is recognizing Jim Snapp, NA0R, for his many years of service to the NWS. All amateurs are invited to a potluck luncheon at the Weather Service on Wednesday the 17th of February. The festivities begin around 11:45 AM and last until about 1 PM. Feel free to bring [...]
