AN ARRL AFFILIATED CLUB.

Boyer Valley Amateur Radio Club (BVARC) was started in 1993 with 5 members. We currently have 40-45 members. The Boyer Valley Amateur Radio Club is a "Not for Profit Association of Amateur Radio Operators" based in Harrison county, Iowa. We use our club equipment (repeaters) for weather watches, flood monitoring, disaster drills, man-made disasters, miscellaneous civic activities requiring extra communications as well as general amateur radio uses. Our members come from Harrison, Monona, and Shelby Counties in Western Iowa and Washington and Burt Counties in Eastern Nebraska. Our coverage includes a vast majority of rural western iowa following Interstate 29 north of Council Bluffs, Iowa to south of Sioux City, Iowa.

The BVARC works with the Harrison county Emergency Management Agency. The club works closely with the Harrison County Communications Center and the National Weather Service in Valley, Nebraska during severe weather and with the Emergency Management Agency. Our club has participated in the OMMRS drill set up by the Omaha Metro area hospitals.

The BVARC is involved with the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES); the emergency division of the American Radio Relay League, and the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES); a radio service using amateur stations for civil defense during periods of local, regional, and national emergencies.

THE Boyer Valley Club operates 6 Repeaters:
KØBVC 145.130- Mondamin Site
KØBVC 145.410- Castana Site
KØBVC 444.350+ Woodbine Site
KØBVC 53.390 OFFSET:51.690 Mondamin Site
KØBVC 146.745- Portsmouth Site
KØBVC West UHF 444.925+ IRLP NODE 3328 Mondamin Site
THE 444.925 IRLP REPEATER IS AN OPEN NODE REPEATER, OPEN TO ALL LICENSED AMATEURS. For more info on the bvarc irlp node please click on the BVARC IRLP Info link under club links.

Nets are held every Monday night at 7:30 pm on the 145.130 Repeater that is usually linked to the 444.350 Repeater. All Amateur Radio Operators are encouraged to join us.