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About ICARC

The Iowa City Amateur Radio Club (ICARC) has been in existence since at least 1933, when it was first affiliated with the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the national association for Amateur Radio. The club callsign, W0JV, belonged to a long-time club member, George Carson, who was a Physics Professor at the University of Iowa. The club obtained it as a memorial callsign following his death. The callsign is used on the clubs two-meter repeater on 146.25/146.85 MHz, as well as for various club events, such as the annual Field Day exercise and regular fox hunts.


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Membership

The current ICARC Membership Roster.
Callsign links to the QRZ callsign lookup.

Membership in the Iowa City Amateur Radio Club is open to all who have an interest in amateur radio. An FCC license is not required for membership, but if you are not currently licensed, we will help you pass the tests and become licensed if you so desire. Also, membership in the ARRL is highly recommended, but is not required. To join, please print and fill out the Membership Application and mail it to the address on the form, along with a check for your dues.

(Note: If you have trouble printing the Membership Application form, an Adobe Acrobat PDF version is available here.)

Payment of dues is required for membership. The ICARC dues schedule follows (all amounts are per calendar year, prorated for part-year membership for new members only):

Individual$20.00
Family$30.00
Senior (age 75 and up)$10.00
Senior Family (age 75 and up)$15.00
Student$10.00

Mail Dues to:
        Iowa City Amateur Radio Club
        P.O. Box 4
        Iowa City, IA
                52244-0004

Membership dues are the sole source of income for the Iowa City Amateur Radio Club, and support all activities of the club, including the W0JV repeater (a very expensive undertaking), the Field Day potluck dinner, programs and refreshments for the regular meetings, and other activities as authorized by vote of the memberhsip.

If your name appears on the ICARC Membership Roster and you are not receiving any e-mail traffic, this is an indication of an invalid e-mail address in the roster or that your service provider is blocking delivery. Contact me through or at the monthly meeting to resolve this.

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2020 Club Officers (Board of Directors)

OfficeName
Callsign
Photo
President Dennis Boyd
WB0VZK
WB0VZK
Vice President Larry Truesdell
AK0Z
AK0Z
Secretary John Nichols
KF0HES
KF0HES
Treasurer Willy Robison
KC0JFQ
KC0JFQ
W0JV Trustee John Kauble
K0GH
K0GH
Webmaster

Pooh-bah:
(the Lord-High everything else)
"I am, in point of fact,
a particularly haughty and exclusive person,
of pre-Adamite ancestral descent.
You will understand this when I tell you
that I can trace my ancestry back to a
protoplasmal primordial atomic globule."
"I am so Proud" from the comic opera "The Mikado"
music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert
Willy Robison
KC0JFQ

a rather plain set from
Gillanders & McLeod
KC0JFQ
Notes:


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Activities

Monthly Meetings

ICARC normally meets at 7:00 PM on the second Wednesday of each month, at The First United Methodist Church of North Liberty
        Room 203
        85 N. Jones Blvd
        North Liberty
Meetings consist of a brief business meeting followed by a program of interest to radio amateurs. Note: Before the meeting, you are invited to join us for an informal meal and socializing at the J&A Tap in downtown North Liberty across from Reds Alehouse.
J & A Tap
440 N Dubuque St
North Liberty, IA 52317


Minutes of past meetings are available on the "ICARC Meeting Minutes Index" page.

Email Reflector

The email reflector has died an untimely death :-(
The hosting machine went down in mid 2018 and was replaced at the begining of 2019.
Emails sent to the reflector address will be manually re-sent to all members of the list. The reflector is open to club members, although it is manually managed at this time...

All club members may currently post to the reflector email address (as it's manually managed right now).
When the reflector is back up and running, your email return address must be the exact same address that you registered under.
To post to the reflector, use this horrible scriptlet, or copy the link and use a normal email client.

W0JV Repeater

2m Radio

ICARC sponsors the W0JV repeater which operates on an input/output frequency pair of 146.25 MHz / 146.85 MHz. The repeater is open to all, and is located on a tower on North Dodge Street south of Interstate 80.
In January 2007, K0GH and N0RXD installed a new controller unit and a new commercial repeater running approximately 45 watts. The previous repeater is being kept as a back up.

The repeater requires a 192.8 Hz CTCSS tone for access. This means that when you transmit on the repeater's input frequency, your transceiver adds a very precise audio tone (192.8 Hz) at a very low level superimosed on the transmitter output along with the microphone audio. The repeater must sense that tone on the received signal to open the squelch. A circuit called a Carrier Operated Switch senses the squelch opening, which tells the repeater that there is a carrier on the input. The controller keys the transmitter, thereby repeating the signal from the input frequency. (The tone frequency used on the W0JV repeater (192.8 Hz) follows the recommendation of the Iowa Repeater Council for our area.)
Repeater
The Repeater: Top: Kenwood repeater.
Bottom: The Duplexer (gold cylinders) - This unit makes it possible to transmit and receive at the same time on a single antenna!
  Tower
The Antenna: The tower is 300' tall. The W0JV antenna is at 150' and is marked with an arrow.



Sunday Evening Net

Although the ICARC does not officially sponsor the Johnson County Sunday Evening Net, this information is provided here as a courtesy to the net.
The Johnson County Sunday Evening Net is primarily a "social" net, which meets at 7:30 PM every Sunday evening on the W0JV repeater on 146.85 MHz, which requires a 192.8 Hz PL tone. Although this is an informal net, proper directed net procedures are followed.
In case of malfunction of the Iowa City repeater, the first alternate net frequency is the Coralville repeater on 147.15 MHz, which also requires a 192.8 Hz PL tone. In case neither repeater is functional, the net will meet on the national simplex frequency, 146.52 Mhz.
Net control responsibilities may be rotated monthly through volunteers from area amateur radio operators. If you would like to volunteer, please do so at a regular monthly meeting of the ICARC, or contact Jeff, KI0JP. Information exchanged includes ham radio related news, such as meeting notices or other club activities, VE session announcements, hamfest announcements and equipment for sale. Please check in whenever you can.

(For Net Control Stations: A suggested net control script and roll call is available here. You can download this same information in PDF format by right-clicking this link and choosing "Save Target as...". The roll call sheet lists callsign, name and QTH for those who frequently check in, and has additional columns to record check-ins and traffic, if any.


Severe Weather (Skywarn®) Net

Skywarn ®  
Although the Iowa City Amateur Radio Club does not officially sponsor the Johnson County Skywarn® Net, this information is provided here as a public service to those who wish to participate.
The Skywarn® Net is an ad hoc net which may be activated by request of the Johnson County Emergency Management Agency, the National Weather Service or any amateur radio operator when severe weather is identified in any part of Johnson County by the National Weather Service. Weather sirens sounding are a valid trigger for opening the net. The net meets on the W0JV repeater on 146.85 MHz, which requires a 192.8 Hz tone. Trained weather spotters from various areas of the county may observe weather conditions and report their observations to net control.
Please see the Skywarn® Net Operations page for more information.

Skywarn® and the Skywarn® logo are registered trademarks of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, used with permission.

Field Day

Click to visit ICARC's Field Day page
Field Day is the "big event" for the ICARC. It provides us a great opportunity to have a lot of fun, while improving our skills in setting up emergency stations, and operating under conditions that can be difficult, at best. Field Day is always the fourth full weekend of June, beginning at 1800 UTC (1:00 PM CDT) Saturday and ending at 2100 UTC (4:00 PM CDT) Sunday. Field Day 2018 will be held June 23 and 24. We usually incorporate a Saturday evening potluck dinner for families and friends. Since we usually set up in a local public park, it also provides us an opportunity to show off amateur radio to the public. We usually get publicity for this event in the local newspaper, and local TV stations have featured us on their weekend news broadcast. The ICARC Field Day page provides all the details, including links to the complete ARRL Field Day rules and many other resources. There are a few photographs of the 2006 operation available on the Field Day Photo Album page.

Public Service

Members of the ICARC may on their own initiative provide public-service communications for community activities, including the annual Run For the Schools and the Solon Beef Days. Communications services are usually conducted on the W0JV repeater by participating local amateur radio operators using either handi-talkies or mobile radios.
The Iowa City Amateur Radio Club is neither officially involved nor responsible for any such operations.

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Iowa Amateur City Radio Club License

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River City Radio Rag

ICARRA001.pdf
RCRR_1974_V1N005.pdf
RCRR_1974_V1N006.pdf
RCRR_1974_V1N007.pdf
RCRR_1974_V1N008.pdf
RCRR_1974_V1N009.pdf
RCRR_1974_V1N011.pdf
RCRR_1975_V2N001.pdf
RCRR_1975_V2N002.pdf
RCRR_1975_V2N003.pdf
RCRR_1975_V2N004.pdf
RCRR_1975_V2N005.pdf
RCRR_1975_V2N006.pdf
RCRR_1975_V2N007.pdf
RCRR_1975_V2N009.pdf
RCRR_1975_V2N011.pdf
RCRR_1976_V3N002.pdf
RCRR_1976_V3N004.pdf
RCRR_1976_V3N005.pdf
RCRR_1976_V3N006.pdf
RCRR_1976_V3N007.pdf
RCRR_1976_V3N008.pdf
RCRR_1976_V3N009.pdf
RCRR_1976_V3N010.pdf
RCRR_1977_V4N001.pdf
RCRR_1977_V4N002.pdf
RCRR_1977_V4N003.pdf
RCRR_1978_V5N001.pdf
RCRR_1978_V5N002.pdf
RCRR_1978_V5N003.pdf
RCRR_1978_V5N004.pdf
RCRR_1978_V5N005.pdf
RCRR_1978_V5N006.pdf
RCRR_1978_V5N007.pdf
RCRR_1978_V5N008.pdf
RCRR_1978_V5N009.pdf
RCRR_1978_V5N010.pdf
RCRR_1978_V5N011.pdf
RCRR_1978_V5N012.pdf
RCRR_1979_V6N001.pdf
RCRR_1979_V6N004.pdf
RCRR_1980_V7N004.pdf
RCRR_2001_March001.pdf



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