Good day as we approach March Madness and MLB Baseball !!!!!!!!!!!! great sports time.
Ham radio is alive and well in the LWRA group. What a great program offered by K4GHB Gary!!!!!!!!! Several comments and excited folks ready to experiment. Also, thank you for supporting the club with renewed memberships and several new folks joining the club at the meeting. The club has several folks who work very hard to make things smooth for day-to-day operations. I would be at great risk to try and name all of them, so I’ll play it safe and go general! THANK YOU! Officers, Board, VE Team, QRP Team, Media support group, Repeater Committee and many many more!
An interesting point of conversation came up after the meeting. This was regarding the CTCSS on Polk repeaters. The question was tone or tone squelch. We DO NOT have any repeaters in Polk that use CTCSS that use Tone TX only, use Tone squelch with is TX and RX tone, which is important since several of our repeaters are dual mode. or a strong repeater is on the same frequency. for an updated repeater list including digital repeaters request at email jml610@comcast.net .
This week in Ham;
Of course, we have Monday Message on WINLINK check out https://polkares.org for additional information Hurricane report is the form for today.
Monday Nets:
Hardee County ARES on the Polk PEM at 7 PM https://polkares.org for frequencies for the WC4PEM.
West Central Florida ARES Net on the NI4CE repeater network at 730PM www.NI4CE.org for frequencies.
Jimmy’s NET on the NXDN W4CLL repeater in Lakeland at 730PM KJ4SGJ Net Controller.
Tuesday Nets:
LWRA on the 442.425Mhz repeater 127.3 Hz CTCSS on TX and RX. the net begins at 730PM with lil ole me as the net control operator. We will transition to the VHF machine 147.33Mhz 127.3 Tone Squelch immediately after the regular net. I will have a question for the net or you can comment on any thing you desire.
At 7PM < and hope and can get it done in time, we have the Polk GMRS net on the 462.725 141.3 CTCSS Tone Squelch if you have a GMRS license come join us. We have been operating for two whole weeks with 39 and 33 check-ins respectively. if you need more information, send me an email jml610@comcast.net Wednesday nets: Polk ARES on the WC4PEM at 7PM you do not have to be a member of Polk ARES to check into this net. A Great Net! NI4CE NXDN net on the NI4CE NXDN network. This net does require a NXDN radio and begins at 730PM; Join Paul NB9X for a great net with valuable information on this network and its capabilities. Find out more on the www.ni4ce.ord/nxdn web site. Thursday Nets: LARC Fusion 147.685MHz C4FM at 7PM with Bob followed by the Traders Net at 730PM with Dan the traders net is analog on the same frequency with 127.3 tone squelch. AND YES, its QRP weekend, it is a weekend early due to Easter Weekend. This month the crew has targeted HF WINLINK as the Tailgate Tech section. This event will be a little further out than normal on the eastern side of the county at Shady Oaks Park PLEASE Check OUT the web site if you do not know where this is. It is off of SR 60 just before the entrance to River Ranch. https://lwra.us/qrp look at the information and enter it into your favorite map or GPS program. Talk in will be on the LWRA UHF machine 442.425MHz +5Mhz 127.3Hz Tone Squelch. W4JFS will be the contact in. Hopefully we will be able to contact the LARC group having an outing on the opposite border of the county at Colt Creek, where they will be focusing on WinLink as well. I hope you have a great week and hope to see you on the air! Mike KB4FHP