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The official name of our club is Southwest Louisiana Amateur Repeater Club but we go by the name Gator Amateur Radio Society or GARS. We meet the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Safety Council building on the corner of Ryan and Clarence Streets in Lake Charles, LA. We welcome all visitors.

Our area Two Meter Net meets on 146.73 on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings at 8:00 PM. Please check in when you can. This is a good opportunity to check out your equipment and stay in touch with fellow hams in the area.

Also, don't forget the ARES net on HF each Sunday evening at 7:30 PM on 3.873 mHz. We need representation from the Southwest district.

Area repeaters and PL tones are as follows.
  • 146.730 PL 173.8
  • 145.210 PL 103.5
  • 145.350 PL 103.5
  • 444.300 PL 88.5
We have a digipeater (W5BII) operating on 144.390 for APRS. We also have a packet digipeater (LCH) operating on 145.010. An RMS packet gateway will be activated during an emergency that will allow packet messages to be sent and received as e-mail via the Internet. This station call is WA5LQZ-10.

You can expand your interest by checking out the Winlink system by clicking on the following link.
www.winlink.org.





Southwest Louisiana Amateur Repeater Club
PO Box 7244
Lake Charles, LA 70605


   Alan Levine, WA5LQZ. Ham of the Decade.
THE RAG Newsletter, October, 2009
2010 dues will become due in January, 2010. Please pay your dues by check and include your call sign in the memo. If you must pay in cash, please enclose your cash in a sealed envelope with your name and call sign written on the front. Please enclose the exact amount. No change will be made at a club meeting. Dues are $24.
Orange Hamfest. Details.
Orange Christmas Dinner. Details.
Sky Warn Recognition day is December 5, 0000 UTC to 2400 UTC. The event is sponsored by the National Weather Service and the ARRL. Since this is a 24 hour event we need operators around the clock. You, especially our new hams, are encouraged to come out and help. For more information, go to hamradio.noaa.gov.
Lakes Area ARC now has an Echolink to our local repeater, 147.000 (-) 118.8 PL at Echolink Node 480827 (W5JAS). Contacts welcome. Traffic net at 8pm every Tuesday evening. Club meets last Thursday of the month at 7pm.
The club's Christmas supper will be Tuesday, December 8, 6:30pm at Holliers on Ruth Street in Sulphur.
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