Author: Kim Gross

West Park in Nampa. QSO party starts at Noon setup at 11 am.

The Educational meeting is the first Thursday of the Month at Bob’s Restaurant and Lounge in Nampa. Meeting starts a 7pm, no host dinner at 6pm

The SWI ARC will be setting up for Winter Field day at Bonneville Point off of Blacks Creek Road just east of Boise off of I-84. The public is welcome to come by and see what it is all about.

If you want to make sure you can operate a station please sign up via Signup Genius to make sure you can get on the radio. This does not mean you will not get on the radio, but priority will be given to those people that signed up for a slot.

We will have a pot luck dinner around 4pm with hot chili and stew. Please bring a side to share. This is also a POTA site so you can get credit for Pota as well as Winter Field Day.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c044caea928abfd0-winter1#/

Kim Gross KI0E is teaching a Ham Cram style class in Middleton at 22550 Lansing lane, starting at 8 am. There will be testing by the K7SWI VE team that afternoon for everybody in the class and is open to the public for new or upgraded licenses. You can sign up for the testing at.

https://hamstudy.org/sessions/6399499dee5b174e3b3fce96/1

If you want to attend the class, please show up by 8am. Study materials are linked here.

https://www.hollandarc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Tech2026AD7FO.pdf

It is that time of the year again. Time for our Winter VHF+ simplex contest. 1-7-2023 from 10 am to 4pm, work as many stations on VHF+ simplex. Each contact is worth one point. You get multipliers by working stations in different grid squares. Two classes Rookies, who are licensed less than 2 years, or have never participated in a VHF contest, and unlimited.

You can work each station once per band.

Full rules will be linked soon.

We will be meeting on Saturday December 10 at the Golden Corral in Nampa. 3:30 pm. There will be a door prize raffle, 50/50 raffle, Club Awards given out and a White Elephant gift exchange. You don’t have to participate in the White Elephant, but it should be fun. Please limit the cost of gifts to $20.

December general meeting will be a DIY/Get help meeting. We will be at Bob’s in the banquet room and will have people there to assist/train on many issues of radio, including soldering, antenna analyzers, spectrum analyzers, Mast Guying, Coax terminating, Power Pole installs, Mobile installs, Radio Programing,

December 1 2022, starting at about 6pm

The club now has a quartermaster to help with club resources. We are building our inventory but do have radios for the non common frequencies that can be checked out and are working on some hardware tools like a Nano-VNA, Coax tools, tower tools ecetera.

As the process is created we will update and create an inventory list.

November 12, from 8am to noon. Indoor swap meet in the Banquet room at Bob’s Restaurant on Shilo drive in Nampa. Please do not bring goods into the restaurant, there is a large double door on the east side of the building that goes into the banquet room. Please park in the east end parking lot as well, should be lots of room and lots of fun.

We are doing a Kid themed Ham R Treat in Julia Davis Park. There will be multiple stations and treats for the kids. Runs from 1pm to 3pm look for the South West Idaho ARC banner

For more info contact Kj7hdt via QRZ