The next SCARC meeting will be on Thursday December 4, 7:30pm at the 4H building on the Iowa State University Campus at 13th and Stange in Ames.

The program will be a presentation by Dan Miller, KC0FRL, who is the Polk County ARES EC. The title of Dan’s talk is “The Use of E.N.V.I.S. Antennas.”

E.N.V.I.S. stands for Emergency Near Vertical Incidence Skywave and such antennas are also known as NVIS antennas. The purpose of such antennas is to provide radiation at higher angles to enhance local communications ability on HF.

The next SCARC meeting will be on Thursday November 6, 7:30pm at the 4H building on the Iowa State University Campus at 13th and Stange in Ames.

KN0R will make a presentation on

Antenna Modeling with 4nec2

A SET exercise will start Saturday, October 11 at 10:00 am and last until about noon. To participate in the SET, tune in to the SCARC repeater, 147.240, at 10 am. Further instructions will be given at that time.