Club Meetings

Club Meetings are on the 1st Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m
College of Eastern Idaho (website)
Room 134 of the John O. Sessions Mechanical Building (map)
1600 South Hitt Road, Idaho Falls, Idaho (map)
ERARC Objectives
  • To promote interest in Amateur Radio.
  • To further the cooperation between Idaho Falls area Amateur Radio Operators.
  • To provide emergency or public service communications when normal means of communications are disrupted.
  • To advance the state of the Amateur Radio art through individual and collective research.
  • To otherwise conduct programs and activities so as to increase the general interest and welfare of Amateur Radio in the community.
  • To support lawful, responsible conduct by its members and the amateur fraternity in general.
October Meeting

At our October meeting we will have a presentation by L. Paul Verhage KD4STH. He is a former air force officer who went into teaching science in high school. He writes a column for Nuts & Voltsmagazine on balloon flights to the edge of space (since 2004.) He's written an article for the ARRL Handbook on telemetry and navigation.
Club Officer Nominations
We will also be looking for nominations for club officers at our October meeting for our election in November. The offices are President, Vice President, Secretary & Treasurer. You can nominate yourself. You do need to be a club member to run for office and vote. If you can't make it to the meeting let us know via the contact us page or let another member know.
New Friday Night Net
Please join Robet AL2B and Kevin KB7ZXN on the 146.64 repeater at 8:30pm for an informal round table net. They will play Amateur Radio Newsline as well as discuss many different topics. If you have something to talk about, you're welcome to bring it up also.
Upcoming Technician Classes
There are upcoming Technician Classes coming up in Idaho Falls and Rexburg. For more information, check out the Classes & Testing page
Nearby Swap Meets
http://www.k7mva.org/

Live audio (slightly delayed) from the 146.64 repeater
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You can also find this feed on Broadcastify, TuneIn and other online streaming services and phone apps.
 
         http://pocatelloarc.org/swap/


 
http://www.arrl.org/doctor
The ARRL has a wonderful bi-weekly podcast about all things technical in Amateur Radio. They cover topics like Vertical Antennas and why CW can get thru when SSB may not. You can also ask questions via their site at http://www.arrl.org/doctor.


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Ham Nation Audio & Video Podcast

Bob Heil K9EID, and Gordon Black WB6NOA and various co-hosts and guests, host a weekly show where they cover the excitement and importance of ham radio - from tossing an antenna wire in a tree allowing you to talk to the world, to the importance of ham radio operators in time of disasters.

The show records live Wednesdays at 7pm Mountain at http://live.twit.tv or you can listen or view the recordings at http://twit.tv/hn

Thank you to Ham Nation for selecting our website as the website of the week for the November 27th 2013 episode. You can view the segment here.


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