KØHS - Hot Springs Amateur Radio Club

10/08/2026

Join us on the air tonight!

📻 HSARC Round Table Net — 7:00 PM
📡 146.700 MHz • PL 146.2

Then stick around for:

📻 C4FM Digital Net — 7:30 PM
📡 444.700 MHz

All licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to check in!

09/25/2026

🎁📻 A HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR HAMFEST SUPPORTERS! 📻🎁
Hot Springs HamFest 2026 wouldn't have been the same without the businesses, organizations and individuals who generously stepped up with door prizes, radios and amateur radio study materials!

A very special THANK YOU to:

❤️ Hot Springs Ace Hardware
❤️ Bomgaars – Hot Springs
❤️ Hot Springs Automotive – Sturdevant's Auto Value
❤️ Carquest Auto Parts – Fall River Auto Supply
❤️ Virginia Kinchela
❤️ 2nd Chances Recycled, Restored, Repurposed

📻 Radioddity
📻 DX Engineering
📚 Ham Radio Prep

Ham Radio Prep made an especially impressive contribution of nine license study manuals — 3 Technician, 3 General and 3 Amateur Extra! Those books will do more than make someone a happy door-prize winner—they can help create new hams and help current operators advance their licenses. 📚📻

Radioddity also helped put some new radio equipment directly into the hands of our HamFest attendees! Radioddity Ham Radio Prep Ace Hardware BomgaarsSupply ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio The Mueller Civic Center

09/24/2026

📰📻 HamFest 2026 made the news!
A huge thank you to Charity Maness and the Fall River County Herald-Star for the wonderful coverage of our 2026 HamFest, and to Phil Knapp, WØFUI, and Billy Beeman, KCØWEU, for sharing their amateur radio experiences. We couldn't have asked for a better way to showcase amateur radio in our community! Fall River County Herald-Star ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio The Mueller Civic Center

09/19/2026

📻🔥 WHAT A DAY — THANK YOU FROM THE HOT SPRINGS AMATEUR RADIO CLUB! 🔥📻

HamFest 2026 is in the books!

We had 60 people sign our guest sheet today, and we know we missed quite a few who came in through the side roll-up door!

And they didn't just come from around the corner. We welcomed visitors from:

📍 South Dakota
📍 Minnesota
📍 Nebraska
📍 Colorado
📍 North Dakota

We enjoyed three great presentations, lots of radios and gear, plenty of handshakes and conversations, and most importantly — a room full of people enjoying Amateur Radio and each other's company. 📡

We heard a lot of great comments throughout the day, and that means a great deal to us.

❤️ THANK YOU to everyone who traveled to Hot Springs and spent part of their Saturday with us.

And a HUGE thank-you to our HSARC members, volunteers, presenters, vendors and everyone behind the scenes who helped plan, promote, set up, haul equipment, work the event and clean everything up afterward.

You made it happen.

🔥 60+ signed in. Five states represented. Three great presentations. One heck of a day. 🔥

THANK YOU for making HamFest 2026 a success! 📻🇺🇸

73 from the Hot Springs Amateur Radio Club — K0HS

Black Hills Life Flight 7 Hot Springs The Mueller Civic Center City of Hot Springs, SD - Government

09/19/2026

🔥📻 **TODAY’S THE DAY — HAMFEST 2026 IS HERE!** 📻🔥

The radios are packed, the tables are ready, and we’re firing up the **Hot Springs HamFest TODAY!** 🚀

📅 **TODAY — Saturday, September 19**
⏰ **10:00 AM – 3:00 PM**
📍 **Mueller Civic Center — Hot Springs, SD**
🎟️ **FREE PARKING & ADMISSION!**

Come spend the day with fellow hams, radio enthusiasts, emergency communications folks, and anyone who’s ever wondered what Amateur Radio is all about!

📻 **Radios, gear & swap tables**
🤝 **Meet hams from across the region**
🚁 **Black Hills Life Flight 7 landing demonstration**
🎙️ **11 AM — ARRL Presentation**
⛰️ **1 PM — POTA/SOTA Presentation**
🇺🇸 **2 PM — Convention of States Presentation**

Whether you’ve been on the air for 40 years or you don’t know a repeater from a toaster — **COME ON DOWN!** 😎

🔥 **No admission. No excuses. Just HAMFEST.** 🔥

📡 **146.700 — We’ll see you in Hot Springs!**

The Mueller Civic Center ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio

09/15/2026

📻 HAMS HELPING HAMS! 🤝

This morning, HSARC members came together at Phil W0FUI’s home to lend a hand after storm-damaged trees took down antenna guy wires. 🌳⚡📡

It didn’t take long for the ladders, tools, ropes—and plenty of helping hands—to come out!

This is what amateur radio is all about: communication, service, friendship, and neighbors helping neighbors. ❤️📻

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who showed up and pitched in!

73 from the Hot Springs Amateur Radio Club — K0HS 🇺🇸

09/12/2026

🇺🇸🔥 15 YEARS OLD. 25 FLIGHTS. FIRST TO THE TOP. AND SHE’S A HAM RADIO OPERATOR! 📻💪
Kadlin Humbracht, KF0TQV, absolutely CRUSHED the 9/11 Grand Stair Challenge! 🏆🇺🇸 THIS is what the next generation looks like! ❤️🤍💙📻🔥

Congratulations to Kadlin Humbracht, 15, Hot Springs. She was the first climber to reach 25 flights yesterday. She is holding her 25 year commemorative statuette.