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Davenport Radio Amateur Club meets on the 3rd monday evenings at 7pm at the Eastern Iowa AEA building in Bettendorf (listen to the sunday night net for changes). There is a net on 146.880 (146.28 in) sunday nights at 8pm. The Club sponsors the following repeaters 146.88- Eldridge, 146.700- Davenport, 146.640- and 146.940- Moline. There is a packet BBS on 145.010 W0BXR. They have a field day site in Scott County Park. The club supplies radio communications for several local events, including Bix Road Race, Moline Citerium, St. Patrick's Day race, Firecracker Run among other events.
Davenport Hamfest
Sunday November 9, 2003
at the
Iowa Army National Guard Hanger
Davenport Municipal Airport

Davenport Hamfest Website
Mississippi Bend Radio Society meets the fourth monday evening of the month at 7pm. At the Civil Air Patrol Bldg just east of the Terminal Bldg at the Quad-City Airport, Moline. A net is on sunday night at 8:30pm on 146.760 (146.160 in) the tone access of 100.0 is usually turned off during the net.
Quad-City Amateur Radio Club meets along with the MBRS at the CAP Bldg. same night and time.
Saint Ambrose University Amateur Radio Club no details known yet
Green Valley Amateur Radio Club a quote from their website "The Green River Valley Amateur Radio Society was organized in August of 1995. The organization was formed not only to promote amateur radio in the Quad Cities and surrounding area of Illinois and Iowa but to provide a forum for active amateurs to mentor and help other amateurs improve their skills."
Quad-City ATV Group
sponsors the 421.250 ATV repeater. There is a net on the TV repeater sundays night at 8:15pm. 144.340 simplex is used for the intercom channel.The meeting is the second Thursday of each month, 7pm at the KWQC-TV studios, 805 Brady St., Davenport
(info courtesy Don Schneider)
Watching QCATV (from Davenport Radio Amateur Club's Newsletter of Nov./Dec. 1999)

It is possible to receive the QCATV signal by using a cable-ready television. To do so, tune to cable channel 57 (i.e. Cable mode not TV or Broadcast mode). Then disconnect the cable from the back of the television and connect the TV to a 70 cm antenna tuned to the lower half of 70 cm. If you don't have a 70 cm antenna, use any UHF antenna. Remember that you will need a low-noise GasFET preamplifier for reception comparable to that of a good down converter.

Local tests show that both transmitting and receiving stations must have good antennas with a short run of quality coax to have a quality picture with audio. Test transmissions to local sites with a down converter and a cable ready television with UHF antenna shows that the down converter is required for quality signal, but the set without a down converter does receive adequate signal, but audio and video signals are fair to poor.

Watching QCATV (part II)

Note from the website owner: I live about ten blocks northwest of the repeater site. I get a signal with some snow with a seven element 440 Mhz beam with about six foot of coax with the antenna inside the house. I took the photo above off the screen with this setup.
K9MVJ holds a swap net on 146.940 (146.340 in) sunday nights at 9pm.
146.760 (100.0) is the Quad-City access for the Southeast Iowa Technical Society Voice Repeater System. Or see a map of the system here.
Quad-Cities National Weather Service's Significant Weather Outlook
Don't forget the ARRL web site.
Since I am a member here's a link to TAPR's website.
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