Contests
🎙️ K0IRO – Iowa Repeater Challenge 2025 🚀
CQ! CQ! Calling All Iowa Hams!
Get ready to twist those dials and fire up those mics—Club K0IRO is throwing down the gauntlet with the Iowa Repeater Challenge, running July 1 to December 31, 2025!
The mission? Simple: Hop on as many Iowa repeaters as you can—local, neighboring, or ones you bump into while on the road—and start making contacts! One contact? Great. Two? Even better. A whole string of them? Now we’re talking!
👉 Log your contacts using our contact form, and each month we’ll tally the scores, post the results, and crown a monthly repeater royalty—could be you with the bragging rights and glory! 👑
Why now? Because repeater activity has been getting a little too quiet lately, and if we don’t keep those frequencies alive, we might just lose them. Yikes! Let’s make some noise, have some fun, and remind the FCC that Iowa hams are loud, proud, and on the air!
Challenge your friends, your club, or that guy down the block with the big tower. Let’s bring our repeaters back to life—one QSO at a time!.
Don't forget to also join in on the conversation on Discord.
📡 Ready, set… transmit!
RULES:
This is a friendly challenge. Log any contact that you make. Please don't abuse the system, we trust that you will log only real contacts. We reserve the right to reject any and all contacts if we feel they are suspicious in nature.
What counts:
- Generally contacts made via VHF/UHF
- Contacts via Repeater (Analog, DMR, P25, Fusion, D-Star)
- Contacts via Simplex
- Contacts via Satellite
- Contacts via GMRS
- Multiple contacts to the same person only count once a day. (Midnight to Midnight)
What does not count
- Contacts on HF
- Contacts made during a net
- Contacts made through a hotspot
- Echolink