LWRA Ham Bytes – Week of 7/28/25

Good Monday!

What a GREAT QRP! We had all the elements; We had a great park, lots of room for stations, great participation, education opportunities with the P2P, at least three HF stations on different modes, folks just ‘stopping by’ to check us out from the GMRS and Ham community, repairs on folks’ equipment and lastly another treat from the Big Dogs. I would be remis if not mentioned KO4FRZ Dave for providing a great breakfast with some sausage biscuits. The park at Simmers Young has been revamped with new restrooms, and a visible sprucing up of the entire area. Looks like a potential “Ham ‘n Beans” location this October. Speaking of ‘Ham ‘n Beans” it is closer than you think; October is just around the corner. So, start thinking about want theme we want as well as the overall event. I would really like this one to take off big!

Here is the link for the QRP video Thanks Todd for doing a great job and Russ for the final product.
https://youtu.be/0217DptW1eM

I was great to see a good turn out for the SKY WARN training from the area last week!

Don’t forget the nets: We need ya! Summertime our numbers dip a little so join us if you can. Big Jim will do the “5th week” this month some come out and join us. 7:30 Tuesday on the LWRA UHF repeater.

Check out W4JFS’ ‘flavor of the day’ and ‘topping’ (what repeater(s) we are highlighting that day) on Signal Chat.

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

Thanks, Russ, for the celestial updates.

Net information on the next page

We have a new GMRS repeater in the area W5DBH has placed a repeater (we will be upgrading it) on the Big Holtel in Haines City NOTE THE FREQ WAS CHANGED DUE TO UNINTENTIONAL INTERFERENCE WITH ANOTHER REPEATER THE NEW FREQ IS 462.55 +5MHz with 127.3 CTCSS TX and RX (wide band setting).

Don’t forget use LWRA Signal Club & Swap group to find or create great deals on this medium. One average item only stays active for a few days before they are sold.

A reminder our friends at LARC next month will have their table gate sale. You can find great deals on used HAM equipment so join the friends at LARC on August 11th at 7PM Parkview Baptist Church, 509 Parkview Place Lakeland 33805 (this is just east of Lakeland Health (fka Lakeland Regional) off of Lakeland Hills Blvd. of you need additional let me know.

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