About Us

The Muscatine Amateur Radio Club began in 1948 and currently has approximately 25 paid members.
We meet the second Monday evening of each month at 7:00 pm at the Pizza Ranch in Muscatine. It is an open meeting, and all are invited to attend.

OUR MEETINGS are held at:
Muscatine Pizza Ranch
106 Ford Avenue Everyone is welcome to attend!
Muscatine, IA 52761
OUR REPEATER
The MARC owns the KCØAQS/R 146.310/.910 repeater located on the Muscatine Community College campus.
The repeater is an open access machine for the use by all licensed amateurs. The repeater requires 192.8 Hz CTCSS tone for access.
We have a weekly On-Air service net every Sunday at 8:30 pm local time. Please check in and meet the local hams.
We also host the Muscatine County ARES Weekly Net every Sunday at 9:00 pm local time. It is also an open net, and all licensed amateurs are invited to check in.
The repeater can also be accessed via the KCØAQS-R Echolink node.
MEMBERSHIP
Club membership dues are only $15.00 per year.
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