LWRA Ham Bytes – Week of 1/05/26

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Can you believe it is 2026? What a world wind year 25 was. The time has come for the annual ‘State of the Club’ meeting this year. We encourage you all to attend if possible and hear about our success and our well we didn’t have any failures so that’s a good thing! As we are meeting this Thursday, please help Dan out. We are ALWAYS looking for good programs. Think about what you would like to see or hear about and let us know. The meeting will be available on Google Meets, look for the reminder for the link or you can use the ones from past meetings.

This is the Year of the Club for the ARRL, I think, no I know we have the best of the best in the LWRA! I certainly appreciate all of you!

We will be discussing the Ham N Beans event on the 31st. A great time!

AS A REMINDER THE LWRA CLUB DUES ARE NOW DUE. SEVERAL METHODS TO PAY INCLUDING PAYPAL, MAIL THRU SNAIL MAIL, OR IN PERSON AT THE MEETING. MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT www.lwra.us/membership.

The ’Flavor of the Week’ will be DMR W4VCO repeaters in ILE, Polk City or Welcome (as well as BM hotspot) 3195162 ts2) LARC club repeater will be the ‘Topping’ 146.685Mhz -.6 127.3 on Tx and Rx. This repeater is analog and C4FM as well as Echo Link.

NET TONIGHT!

The NET control operator will be John the Repeater Killer. Join John for Tuesday evening’s net at 730PM on the LWRA UHF repeater. I am sure he will have a great question for the group as well.

We still net a few net controllers for our GMRS associated nets.

Dan’s W5DBH Haines City Net on Fridays 462.55 127.3 he needs subs and controllers for his 7 PM Friday net.
I need a third- or fourth-week controller for the Polk GMRS net for Tuesday at 7PM each week. 462.725 141.3. Also, standby subs for all three nets would be great. Let me know about any 863-412-2467

Thanks, Russ, for the celestial updates. Great net reminders on SIGNAL each day… a wonderful tool!

Net information on the next page

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.

Several items have been listed in the last few days and lasted mere minutes.

Several items are still available on SIGNAL if interested.

If you are NOT on SIGNAL and want info email me 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