LWRA Ham Bytes – Week of 10/06/25

Good morning,

VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION!

Due to extenuating circumstances Ham n Beans as well as the QRP event for October will be CANCELED! Many good events are conflicting and in order not to compromise our or others commitment to other events, it has been canceled. The QRP Committee has instead come up with an alternative to the QRP.

We will be having an old fashion QRP ‘Simply QRP’ on the 8th of November. This will be our October and November QRP that is usually a small event due to the Thanksgiving holiday. The QRP in November (8th) will be at Fort Meade, a very popular place for our events with plenty of room and space for your radios and antennas. I apologize for the inconvenience. The flyer will be up soon on the web site.
In the same thought process, we are moving the Ham N Beans event to the QRP date in January (if approved at the meeting.)

The meeting this month is Thursday and will be our regular Business meeting. We will have a program on “where did that come? Regarding common items used in Amateur radio” things you just might not know… Join us at 7PM Thursday the 9th; Lake Wales Fire Station 1 or on the Google Meets app. A link will be sent out on Thursday as a reminder.

Update! We are VERY close to reestablishing the Echo Link and adding All Star to the VHF repeater, hopefully in a few weeks. Stay tuned! A little issue has manifested trying to work our way through it. The shutdown has interfered with this so far.

Don’t forget the nets: We need ya! The net controller this Tuesday our 1st week net control operator in the ‘repeater killer’ himself W4JFS John. Always a great net 730 TONIGHT, if you can check in, please do, if not let us know that you ‘would if you could’ on SIGNAL LWRA CHAT. The net time is 730 on the K4LKW UHF repeater. Look for the announcement on the net for the round table to follow.

Don’t forget WINLINK Monday: We need you here too!

Thanks, Russ, for the celestial updates.

Net information on the next page

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Daily VHF/UHF Net Listings – Polk County
 
DAY
TIME
REPEATER(S)
NET NAME
Daily
2030
NI4CE (Analog) Repeater System
Eagle Net:  NTS Traffic Net
Monday
1900
146.625 MHz – N4EMH Repeater
Hardee County ARES Net
Monday
1930
NI4CE (Analog) Repeater System
WCF Section ARES/Information Net
Monday
2000
442.025 MHz – W4CLL NXDN
NXDN “Polie Bottom” Net
Tuesday
1900
GMRS Bartow Repeater
Polk County GMRS Net
Tuesday
1930
442.425 MHz – LWRA Repeater
LWRA Weekly Net
Tuesday
1930
NI4CE Analog Repeater System
NI4CE NXDN Repeater System:
Talkgroup 1299
Skywarn WX-Alert Net
Wednesday
1900
WC4PEM Repeater System
Polk County ARES Net
Wednesday
1930
NI4CE NXDN Repeater System
Florida NXDN Net
Thursday
1830
146.685 MHz – LARC Repeater
LARC Fusion Net
Thursday
1930
146.685 MHz – LARC Repeater
LARC Weekly Net
Thursday
2100
NI4CE (Analog) Repeater System
WCF Section Technical 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