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 […]

Members of Polk County Iowa ARES are encouraged to participate in these events as a way to train for and be prepared for emergency situations. If you want to volunteer or need more information, visit the Polk County ARES website at PolkCountyARES.com.

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 […]

Members of Polk County Iowa ARES are encouraged to participate in these events as a way to train for and be prepared for emergency situations. If you want to volunteer or need more information, visit the Polk County ARES website at PolkCountyARES.com.

Members of Polk County Iowa ARES are encouraged to participate in these events as a way to train for and be prepared for emergency situations. If you want to volunteer or need more information, visit the Polk County ARES website at PolkCountyARES.com.

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 […]

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 […]

Members of Polk County Iowa ARES are encouraged to participate in these events as a way to train for and be prepared for emergency situations. If you want to volunteer or need more information, visit the Polk County ARES website at PolkCountyARES.com.