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Welcome to the SouthWest Iowa Amateur Radio Club

Field Day is Coming!

SWIARC will be hosting Field Day 2009, in conjunction with the Amateur Radio Relay League. Come experience the excitement of world wide communications at beautiful Hitchcock Nature Center in Iowa. Open to the public, Field Day is a 24 hour event demonstrating the global communication abilities of "Ham Radio", to demonstrate our ability to handle emergency communications in case of a catastrophic disaster, and an event to show Amateur Radio to the public.

Amateur Radio or Ham Radio is no longer morse code, but a broad network of highly trained and dedicated individuals that assist in communications for local events from the recent Celebrate Council Bluffs Parade to emergency communications like Sep 11th or Hurricane Katrina where local hams handled communications for local and national government agencies.

The event is held annually the last full weekend of June. This year it will be held the 27-28 of June at Hitchcock Nature Center in Iowa. There is no admission charge for the event and it is open to the public. We will be demonstrating several forms of communication from morse code, and voice to digital communications, and even have demonstrations on constructing antennas and renewable energy operations, showing our ability to operate in remote locations and "Off the Grid".

For more information and driving directions, see the flier

Flea Market

Photos of the SWIARC flea market are HERE

Christmas Dinner

Photos of the SWIARC Christmas Dinner are posted. Click Here

SouthWest Iowa Amateur Radio Club

PO Box 661, Council Bluffs, IA 51502

Repeater: 146.82 -

Last update 6/11/09

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