Polk County Emergency Management  excited to again offer both the ICS-300 and ICS-400 courses here in Central Iowa at the Polk County Emergency Operations Center.  Many of the past course offerings have resulted in full classes with waiting lists.  Course descriptions and links to register for either or both courses are below. ICS-300 Intermediate ICS for […]

FCC Eliminating Vanity Call Sign Fee The FCC is dropping the regulatory fee to apply for an Amateur Radio vanity call sign. The change will not go into effect, however, until required congressional notice has been given. This will take at least 90 days. As the Commission explained in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Report […]

Field Day is just around the corner.  The board of the DMRAA is busy making plans for another great event.  Field Day will again be held at Fort Des Moines County Park.  The 4-Alpha station will offer all interested hams operating time.  Stay tuned for more information.  

Its that time of year.  The new slate of board members and officers is ready for your approval.  A sample ballot is shown below.  Please vote at the May meeting and show your report to the DMRAA leadership.     Des Moines Radio Amateurs Association Ballot 2015 – 2016   (1 year) President,               Bruce […]

The latest DMRAA Hamfest proves that Amateur Radio can be fun and interesting.  Along with great forums and plenty of new and used equipment a large crowd enjoyed the fellowship this Saturday at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.  Have a look at the PhotoStream in the upper right hand side of this page.  The members of the Des […]

The 2015 Robert M. Evans award was presented to Jon Davis, KCØUSS, during the DMRAA’s Hamfest on April 18.  Davis, who is also the Deputy Director for Polk County Emergency Management, has demonstrated  his support of both the DMRAA and ARES in various ways throughout the years, and helped to raise the profile of the […]

ARRL EC-001 has been canceled Since there was only one registration for the Field EC-001 course that was scheduled for 24-26 Apr 2015, I have canceled the course. Joe Hoepfner 319-215-9709  

The DMRAA is pleased to announce that we will be offering a technician study class in Des Moines. The class will meet at Roosevelt High March 26, 2015 at 7:00 pm .  The class cost is $25, and students will also need to purchase a study guide from the ARRL.  Copies will be available at […]

  Jack KØJQA demonstrates proper soldering techniques for coax connectors at the March DMRAA meeting.  Jack also explained the differences between many of the popular connectors used by hams.

  Join us at the  April 27th DMRAA Meeting  The news has been full of stories of credit card data that has been compromised by way of merchant transactions. We in the United States are about the only country left in the world using magnetic strip technology.  The rest of the world has converted to […]