Please see the attachment in regards to the upcoming VE Testing for August 2nd in Marshalltown. Please feel free to pass along the information to your ham radio friends. We will test all license classes, and no pre-registration required. If you have any questions please let me know! Click on link below for more information. […]

The next Polk County ARES Quarterly Meeting is July 21st at 7:00pm. Meeting is at the Polk County Emergency Operations Center 1907 Carpenter. All interested hams are encouraged to attend

The statistics for Field Day are available by clicking here.  2014 FD Statistics

Ankeny Community Education will host the next DMRAA Technician class.  Information and enrollment information is available online. Click here for the Ankeny Community Education Fall Course Catalog 2014 look on page 8.  Class begins September 11th, 2014.  Cost is $10 plus $25 for the ARRL Study Guide.  

  The DMRAA’s 2014 Field Day is in the books. Have a look at the DMRAA PhotoStream link on the right side of this page. We had more of everything this year.  More help setting up the three towers, more operators, more visitors and more rain!  We were off the air for a couple of […]

Join us July 22nd for the Show and Shine /ice cream social The weather is warm and just right to show off your unique mobile installation. Of course if you don’t have a unique mobile installation you will be able to get several great ideas. The Iowa State Patrol and Des Moines PD will show […]

    Beginning  Saturday, June 28th, the DMRAA will operate a 2 Meter evening net.  Tune your VHF rigs to the 146.940 repeater tone 114.8 at7:30pm  CDT for the weekly information net.  It has been a couple of decades since the club sponsored a local net.  The DMRAA will provide the repeater and net control […]

Polk County amateur radio operators — commonly known as “hams” — were presented with the Iowa Governor’s Volunteer Award by Iowa Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds today in a ceremony at Southeast Polk High School. As part of the amateur radio hobby, operators give back to their community by providing communications support to these events and agencies […]

Polk County ARES will be receiving a 2014 Governor’s Volunteer Award. The awards ceremony is at 10:00am, Wednesday, June 18 at the Southeast Polk High School, 7945 NE University Avenue, Pleasant Hill. All ARES members are welcome to attend.  

Mike, KC4VG will show and tell about his recent Buddipole™ adventure.  Mike will endeavor to make us envious! June 24th 7:00 PM Plymouth Congregational Church 42nd & Ingersoll