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A nonprofit corporation registered in the State of Iowa

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to the Iowa City Amateur Radio Club (ICARC) home page, your Internet World Wide Web link for Amateur Radio in Iowa City and Johnson County, Iowa.

For complete information about the club, please click on the "About ICARC" topic in the menu bar above. This page contains a great deal of information about the club, including membership requirements, a membership roster, club officers, a brief history, club incorporation documents and by-laws, and details on a wide range of club activities.

You may contact ICARC by
or by "snail mail" at: ICARC, PO Box 4, Iowa City, IA 52244-0004.

(Note: To use the email link above (or email links anywhere on this site), you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser.)

ICARC meetings are normally held on the second Wednesday of every month at 7:30 PM, at the Grant Wood Area Education Agency building, 200 Holiday Road, in Coralville. For current meeting information, please see the "Upcoming Events" section, below. Visitors are most welcome.

Interested in becoming a member? Please see the "Membership" section on the "About ICARC" page for details and a membership application form.

Special Anouncement:

The EC for Cedar County would like to ensure that he can call on local hams in case of emergency.  Cedar County does not have very many hams and he is needing the assistance of outside hams if they were to have an emergency.  They are looking into starting a 2 meter simplex net.
Please call him if you are interested:

Peter Pappas, Park Ranger
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
319-333-8877 (home cell)

Upcoming Events

The Feburary meeting of the Iowa City Amateur Radio Club will be held on Wednesday, Feburary 8th at the Grant Wood Area Education Agency, 200 Holiday Road in Coralville. Be sure to watch this web page for updates.

The doors will open at 7:00 PM; the formal meeting begins at 7:30 PM.

Program: Apartment Antennas Just because you live in an apartment doesn't mean that you can't work the HF bands!

Note: Before the meeting, we usually have an informal get-together for dinner at the Arby's Restaurant, 801 1st Avenue in Coralville. Please feel free to join us there between 6:00 and 6:15 PM.

We hope to see you at the meeting on Feburary 8th!

(Click on any of the highlighted addresses above for a Google map showing its location.)

March 2012 Meeting

The March meeting of the Iowa City Amateur Radio Club will be held on Wednesday, March 14th at the Grant Wood Area Education Agency, 200 Holiday Road in Coralville. Be sure to watch this web page for updates.

The doors will open at 7:00 PM; the formal meeting begins at 7:30 PM.

Program: What's that Funny Noise?  A look at the many Digital modes available to Amateurs.

Note: Before the meeting, we usually have an informal get-together for dinner at the Arby's Restaurant, 801 1st Avenue in Coralville. Please feel free to join us there between 6:00 and 6:15 PM.

We hope to see you at the meeting on March 14th!

(Click on any of the highlighted addresses above for a Google map showing its location.)

April 2012 Meeting

The April meeting of the Iowa City Amateur Radio Club will be held on Wednesday, April 11th at the Grant Wood Area Education Agency, 200 Holiday Road in Coralville. Be sure to watch this web page for updates.

The doors will open at 7:00 PM; the formal meeting begins at 7:30 PM.

Program: How do I keep track of this stuff? So you've made some contacts, now how do you keep track of them?  A look at some the logging programs available to Hams.

Note: Before the meeting, we usually have an informal get-together for dinner at the Arby's Restaurant, 801 1st Avenue in Coralville. Please feel free to join us there between 6:00 and 6:15 PM.

We hope to see you at the meeting on April 11th!

(Click on any of the highlighted addresses above for a Google map showing its location.)

Field Day 2012

Field Day will be 1PM CDT June 23 to  1PM CDT June 24, 2012. We will be located in Iowa City's City Park, Shelter #11.

Click on the icon to the left to visit www.emergency-radio.org for more information about Amateur Radio's emergency capabilities. The emergency-radio.org web site is provided by the ARRL.

Real-Time Propagation Information

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Geomagnetic Field:

For weekly propagation bulletins, please visit the ARRL's W1AW Propagation Bulletins web page. A new bulletin is posted every Friday. Also, N6RT's excellent Propagation page is a great resource.

What's New?

• October 13, 20121:
  • Added the anouncement for Field Day to the "Upcoming Events" section, above.
• January 3, 2012:
  • Made additions and corrections to the Nets page.
  • Updated the Hamfest Calendar to show all area 2012 hamfests that we are aware of.
• January 2, 2012:
  • Added the "Special Announcement" regarding a need for hams available to participate in emergency operations in Cedar County, above.
• December 19, 2011:
  • Added the announcements for meetings in early 2012 to the "Upcoming Events" section, above.
• December 15, 2011:
  • Updated the "About Us" page and the Membership Roster.
• November 29, 2011:
  • Updated the announcement of the December meeting in the "Upcoming Events" section, below.
  • Updated the Membership Roster.
• October 13, 2011:
  • Added the announcements of the November and December meetings in the "Upcoming Events" section, below.

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Last updated January 19, 2011 by ACØXY