Yesterday, Saturday Ed W0CB, Don AA0F, Ed W0SD, Randy KB0GGM, Fred KD0STI, Jim KD0S, Jim KE0IDM, Rick K0RIK were at the WS work day. Tower climbers were KD0STI, KD0S, KB0GGM and K0RIK. Grounding on th

AA0F Don, W0CB Ed and W0SD Ed have finished their third day straight at WS. It has been "tough" work. Yesterday Brian from Vantek got the DB-224e at 300 foot out of the UHF corner reflector and let it

Ed W0CB, Don AA0f and Ed W0SD put in a hard, cold, very windy long.... day at WS. We found some bad news! The mast is bent slightly and is enough so we can't use the elevator arrangement to drop the m

Here as some pictures of the ice damage at WS. The 2M antenna at 300 foot is bent over. Also total wipe out of remote station antenna's. There is some damage to other WS Repeater antenna's. Wednesday

Dale did a lot of work on the SD-Link over the years until he was beset with health issues. Ed W0SD

As part of the big blizzard in western SD last week the Wessington Springs SDARC site got a huge amount of ice. Rod KD0AKN reports the antenna's on the SDARC remote tower received a lot of damage. Als

Greetings, Ed W0CBJ, Don AA0F and myself did some work at WS for the SD-Link and for the SDARC remote station today. The remote station is working well. If you are interested in using the remote stati

It was a hot, windy day. Helping were KD0BUF Daniel, KD0ZXI Steve, K0HF Jeff, W0CBJ Ed, KE0VAL Valerie, Ed W0SD and Don AA0F. We took the Hygain Explorer 14 tri-bander down from 55 feet and replaced t

I believe I announced the wrong work date for the WS SD-Link site on the SD-Link Net last night. It will be September 15th, Saturday. Some of the Work Projects Fixing the HF beam Grounding the 300 foo

We are planning a work day at Wessington Springs (WS).on Saturday September 15th Ed W0SD SDARC Sec/Trea

Greetings, Just a reminder the 2M SSB net will be at 8:30 pm Central Time and 7:30Pm Mountain on 144.270 USB on Sunday night. Net controls will be AA0F and occasionally W0SD. Ed W0SD

Greetings, We have changed the time a bit! It will be 8:30 pm Central Time and 7:30Pm Mountain on 144.270 USB on Sunday night. Net controls will be AA0F and occasionally W0SD. I think we have notified

W0CBJ Ed of Mitchell and W0SD Ed of Salem made the 340 mile round trip to Crandall Hill today and found a bad PA. It was putting out 1/2 watt. I is amazing how good that site is in that it could be he

Today Don AA0F was at WS working on things and found when I was there on Wednesday that I accidentally left the hub and link switch in the position where they receive but do not transmit. As I said in

The South Dakota Amateur Radio Council (SDARC) announces that the SD-Link will be reserved on April 27th from 2-4 pm Central time for a drill between the Mitchell and Sioux Falls ARES groups with the

I think the practice on the SD Link this morning at 9 am went well. We will have another practice session between the Mitchell and Sioux Falls Area hams next Saturday, March 31st at 9am to 10 am. This

The Mitchell and Sioux Falls ARES group will be having practice on the SD Link tomorrow between 9-10 am using MT-63. If you want to practice coping MT-63 feel welcome to do so. We will be using MT632K

There will be a SDARES emergency drill practice on the SD-Link on Saturday March 24th from 10-11 am. It will be the Mitchell and SF ARES groups practicing but you are encouraged to listen in and copy

First of all thanks for a fantastic response to getting things moved over the sdlink@groups.io. We are up to 42 members now .There will be a SDARES MT-63 practice session between SF and Mitchell from

Bill KM0F Amateurs must be tough, Ham Radio Is A "Contact" Sport