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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
E-mail
or by "snail mail" at: ICARC, PO Box 4, Iowa City, IA 52244-0004.
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.
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Weather Spotter Safety
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We have added a page of Weather Spotter Safety information (provided by the National Weather Service) to remind you of proper safety procedures when you are engaged in spotting severe weather for the Johnson County Severe Weather Net. Please read this information before you become active in Weather Spotting, and review it every month or two during the severe weather season!
The following equipment from the estate of former Iowa City Amateur Radio Club member Elmer Ferrel, KGØDL, is available for sale. If you are interested in any of the items, you may send an email to the club or contact Craig, KØCF by telephone at 351-8258.
Reasonable offers will be considered for any of these items. Please call the number listed above or email the club if you are interested in any of these items. Obviously, we want to get as much out of these items as possible for Elmer's family.
Benton County Repeater Returns
Press Release, February 3, 2010
The Benton County repeater is up and running again. Since the repeater is owned by Benton County Emergency Management we have put the EMA call sign, KDØDKS, on the repeater. Remember that the repeater requires a 141.3 Hz PL tone to access the system. At this time we are only using the central receiver located at the county central communications tower. As we gain access to the remaining links and get them either moved or reactivated we will add them back on line.
Hope to hear you on the repeater again soon!
Robert Spangler, KAØWJZ
Benton County EC
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The next regular meeting of the Iowa City Amateur Radio Club will be held on Wednesday, February 10th 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.
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Program: Antenna Modeling (First of a Series)
A presentation by our own Rich Haendel, W3ACO, about use of the free EZNEC program to model antennas. Rich will provide copies of EZNEC 4.0 to everyone who brings a laptop computer (running Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows 7 ONLY -- Macintosh, Windows 95 and Windows NT are not supported). We should have sufficient power cords and extensions to connect everyone.
Jeff, KIØJP, will have his notebook connected to the overhead projector and Rich will lead everyone through each of the menu items and explain how the program operates.
(Art, KØACP, is attempting to locate alternate venues so we won't have to wait a month for the next session. Right now it looks like the Coralville library is one possibility.)
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 February 10th!
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Southeast Iowa Hamfest
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West Liberty, Iowa
Last updated February 4, 2010 by KØCF
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