The Camporee expected to have 10,000 Scouts and parents. While the weather degenerated during the day Saturday, many scouts and leaders visited the ham demo area. PowerFilms of Ames provided a 2kW PowerShade. The National Weather Service also had a booth with us. Several local Ham groups joined forces to do the event. The Des [...]

Cass Nemmers, 46, passed away September 1, 2010 at Iowa Methodist Medical Center. Cass was born May 27, 1964 in Sioux City, IA to Sylvester and Jean (Cass) Nemmers. He was a deputy with Polk County. Most importantly, Cass was an amazing father and husband of 26 years. He loved to ride his two Harley [...]

Polk County Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) will participate in the Boy Scouts of America 100th Encampment at Water Works Park in Des Moines. On display at the amateur radio booth will be a Flex 5000 software-defined radio display, backpack HF station, HF station, D-STAR station, and a VHF/UHF station. The National Weather Service and [...]

The Iowa Section Youth Award is intended to recognize a young ham, who has demonstrated his or her tremendous dedication to Amateur Radio through his or her activities. Requirements Nominees for the Iowa Section Youth Award must meet the following requirements to be considered for this award: A current Iowa resident A licensed Amateur Radio [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]