Last year the Ottumwa Amateur Radio Club received a grant from the Wapello County Foundation to purchase and install a Flex 6400 to facilitate remote operation. Members use the station for multiple reasons. They do not have access to a location where they can set up a station. They need a second radio to evaluate…
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Winter Field Day 2022
The club operated as a 2H IA station during Winter Field Day on January 29th and 30th, 2022.
Field Day 2020
The club members did not have a club event for Field Day this year due to the COVID crisis. Club members did their own thing. Paul WA0PAC worked 13 contacts from Pioneer Ridge Nature Center. He went battery power QRP with a uBitX on 20M.
2016 Iowa QSO Party Results
The Ottumwa Amateur Radio Club is no longer sponsoring the Iowa QSO Party. However, all is not lost. The Story County Amateur Radio Club is taking over sponsorship. Please visit the new Iowa QSO Party website. This page continues to be published as an archive of past scores. IOWA SINGLE OP FIXED Total Score W0MLD…
W4H Special Event Station
WAPELLO COUNTY 4-H SPECIAL EVENTJULY 16TH 2016 – 10 A.M. – 4 P.M. CST (0400Z – 1000Z) What is 4-H? 4-H is a youth development program with more than 6.5 million young people involved. Not limited to rural communities, 4-H members are from Urban and Suburban communities as well. The 4-H approach to youth development is “Learning by doing”. Kids gain…
2015 Iowa QSO Party Results
The Ottumwa Amateur Radio Club is no longer sponsoring the Iowa QSO Party. However, all is not lost. The Story County Amateur Radio Club is taking over sponsorship. Please visit the new Iowa QSO Party website. This page continues to be published as an archive of past scores. October 2015 IOWA SINGLE OP FIXED Phone…
Field Day 2015
Field Day was held June 27-28, 2014 at Pioneer Ridge Nature Center Pioneer Ridge provided a great venue for our ARRL Field Day activities. We reserved one of the Camping Cabins and one camp site to set up operations. Set up started about 9:30 with operations starting at the official kick off at 1:00 p.m. We worked well…
2014 Iowa QSO Party Results
The Ottumwa Amateur Radio Club is no longer sponsoring the Iowa QSO Party. However, all is not lost. The Story County Amateur Radio Club is taking over sponsorship. Please visit the new Iowa QSO Party website. This page continues to be published as an archive of past scores. October 2014 IOWA SINGLE OP FIXED Phone QSOs…
Field Day 2014
Field Day was held June 28-29, 2014 at QTH of K0JGH
US Islands – Turkey Island (IA010)
OARC qualified Turkey Island on May 31, 2014.330 Total Contacts 7 Canadian1 Mexico1 Venezuela1 Belize36 NA States