Category: Ham Radio

  • ARRL Field Day Swap

    We will have a swap table setup at the Field day event. Bring your stuff to sell, bring your money. Plan on having fun.

  • ARRL Field Day

    Field Day update. Early set up Friday afternoon/evening. Hamburgers, Lumpia and corn on the cobb Saturday at 5p with donations to the club accepted The club will have cold water, unsweetened ice tea, and lemonade on hand. Please bring a covered side dish or salad if you are able. Two grills available. Forecast calls for 100 on Sat and 104 on Sun. Plenty of shade around the pool and no shade in the RV parking area. The back yard slopes down from the house and the RV parking area slopes even more so bring your trailer levelers. As you can see from the Google Earth pic there is only one way in and out of the main RV parking area. A UTV will be available to move people and equipment up and down slope. What to bring – camp chairs, popup shelter for shade, towel. As a reminder please no dogs, no glass in the pool area, and babies in swim diapers. We will also have a covered area for buy, sell, trade ham radio related items. 73 Scott W7IMC

    Address is

    12622 DEER RIDGE TRAIL
    NAMPA, ID 83686
    USA

    Simple directions to find the location. Take Franklin exit in Nampa head south into town. Stay in the right hand lane. Follow the road to the right on 11 ave. Move into left hand lane. Go under the overpass, then when the lane turns left on 3’rd, go left, then go right on 12’th as the lane goes. Follow the road about 4 miles until you get to Deer Flat. Turn right. Travel a few miles until you get to the top of the ridge and you see the entrance to DeerSky Ranch on the Left. Turn left on Deer Sky Ranch Trail. Follow it until you meet Deer Ridge Trail. Turn left. Follow the road until you see some antennas and lots of people lol.

    We will be monitoring 146.52 for QSO’s and talk in if needed.

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/12622+Deer+Ridge+Trail,+Nampa,+ID+83686/@43.4968787,-116.6473973,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x54ae3632707a4cdd:0x9b3525c4d1bfaca2!8m2!3d43.497587!4d-116.6448546

  • 7th Area QSO Party Pictures

    We setup for the 7th area QSO party. Here are some pictures of the event.

  • Chicken Dinner Road Special Event Station

    We will be operating on May 22 and May 23 as a special event station commemorating the approx 100 year anniversary of the Chicken dinner that gave Chicken Dinner Road. Over the last few years Chicken Dinner road has had a lot national publicity because of a letter from People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to the mayor of Caldwell, asking to have the road renamed to make it “celebrates chickens as individuals, not as beings to kill, chop up, and label as ‘dinner.’” “We will be operating under our club call on K7SWI. For all the locals the event will have a free (donations accepted) chicken dinner that will be served at 5:00pm local time.

    The location for the event is on some private property off of Chicken Dinner road (has a Chicken Dinner Road address if it had an address). If you are headed south on Chicken Dinner Road it is the first multihouse driveway south of Lloyd Lane and North of Locust Lane headed to the West towards the river. There is a large shop/warehouse on the east side of Chicken Dinner Road just south of the driveway. Once you turn west on the driveway, go to the corner, follow it to the left, then go to the next intersection and turn right, then park on the left you will have a hard time missing us and we are visible from Chicken Dinner Road. We plan to be operational from noon local time on 5-22 until 18:00 UTC noon local time on Sunday 5-23. We will have stations on all the major VHF/UHF calling frequencies for the locals. Send a SASE for a QSL card and $1.00 if you wish a certificate for the event.

  • Welcome to our new website

    We finally have a web site up and running please bookmark us and check for upcoming events.