LWRA Ham Bytes – Week of 3/10/25

Good Monday!

Thanks for those who offered to help with the ongoing email debacle, I appreciate the advice and offers, however it is a MS Outlook issue. It can only be resolved by them. Anyway, still transferring the email to my phone so I apologize for inaccuracies.

Excited about our meeting this month! N4RTD will present HOW TO’s for Fusion /and specifically WIRES X. For those that have Yaesu FUSION radios already bring a note pad and or your hand-held radio. He has NEW information since his LARC presentation on this topic. The folks that have been playing on the jointly owned repeater in Bartow have talked all over the world. One new Ham in the area made his first international contact on any mode the last week He was excited, I talked to him later he was excited, sparking his interest in other modes like HF.

So, the QRP will be the ed of the month with Crystal Lake in Lake Wales being the location. Our theme for TTG will be again FUSION WIRES. W4JFS and the team will make it a great day. We had thought we would go hungry with ‘Big Dogs on the Porch’ being at the MS Bike race, but NEWS ‘Top Cat Culinary Delights’ will be cooking up some dogs for us. Thanks, Tommy, for stepping up to fill in the gap.

Don’t forget the nets and the Win Link.

I will post the link the week before the meeting.

Meeting link:  meet.google.com/opy-theb-jjp
Join by phone:  (US) +1 502-518-3651
PIN: 522847402
More phone numbers

Our keen planners of QRP are hard at work planning the March event. We will post info as soon as possible regarding the location and possible date change due to another HAM event.

A reminder dues are due until March 15th. Per our bylaws dues not received by that date will remove you from the roll. We need you to please consider renewing It has, and will continue, to make this a progressive learning club with each other and new amateurs in the area our priority. We stive to make our club a fun outgoing organization that cultivates education and camaraderie. Your renewal is vital to keep our objectives moving forward. https://www.lwra.us/membership for PayPal, address or other information regarding dues.

Great news the WIRES X Fusion repeater in Bartow is now WIRES capable thanks to Russ, Richard and Robert. More to come on how to use this if you have a Yaesu Fusion Radio 145.270MHz C4FM ONLY. W4PSR Thanks Polk School Radio Society, Lakeland Amateur Radio Club, Lake Wales Repeater Association, and Polk County Emergency Management for success in this project.

Russ and others are ‘turning on room periodically to hear what WIRES does. When these rooms are on you can join in the nets, or conversations without having to open WIRES. If you can hear them, you can join in. They will turn off automatically in about an hour after activation.

Don’t forget the nets:

Don’t forget WINLINK Monday:

Net information on the next page

Anyone looking for tower sections contact me at jml610@comcast.net

One last thing.

Check out the WINLINK Monday with Gary today, you can find more information on the
www.polkares.org/WINLINK

73 and I hope to ‘see ya on the air.’

Mike
KB4FHP jml610@comcast.net call 863-412-2467