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Welcome

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.

(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 Anouncements:

Antique Radio Collection For Sale

 David Cook says he has a large collection of antique radios, mostly receivers, some are Collins, as well as microphones and headphones for sale. He is in failing health and would like to see them go to someone who would appreciate them. So, if you're interested, give him a call. His number is 563-264-0215. He lives at 2907 Fairhaven Street in Muscatine.


Upcoming Events

June 2012 Meeting

The June meeting of the Iowa City Amateur Radio Club will be held on Wednesday, June 13th 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: Field Day
    • We'll be discussing plans for Field Day 2012.

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 May 9th!

(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. More information is available on our Field Day page.

City Park

Corridor Classic Tour De Cure June 30th

This is the Corridors best supported cycling fundraiser to Stop Diabetes!  Saturday June 30th. Each year the event has grown, from about 100 participants a few years ago, to over 300 last year, and we are hoping for 500 participants this year. We are moving the event to Performance Fitness in Coralville and have three routes, with the longest route of 100 miles heading west to Oxford, south to IWV, west to North English and looping back through Cosgrove, Tiffin, and returning to Coralville.



Corridor Classic Tour De Cure


  • Amateur Radio operators needed to provide communications support: 
    • We'll need 17-18 hams who have handheld 2 m radios, as well as 2-3 hams who have higher power mobile 2 m radios, to cover the outlying portions of the course.
    • The website for the event is at: http://www.diabetes.org/corridorclassic
    • There will be 3 routes for the event:

    Route Distances

    100
    Mile

    50
    Mile

    20
    Mile

    5
    Mile

    Check- In

    5:00 AM

    6:30 AM

     8:00 AM

    9:30 AM

    Start Time

     6:00 AM

     7:30 AM

     9:00 AM

    10:30 AM

    **Routes are subject to slight modifications prior to the day of the event.

If you would like to assist, please contact David - KØLUM at 319-351-7717

Licensing Exam Session

Our Volunteer Examiners will be holding a Licensing Exam session August 18th at 10:00 AM. The session will be held at the Coralville Public Library, Meeting Room A.  We will offer testing for all license classes. For more information see our
Licensing Page or contact John -



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Last updated April 26, 2012 by ACØXY