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Welcome
members and public to the Lake Wales Repeater Association web page.
Be sure to check the news section and event calendar so you are kept
up to date on our latest Ham Radio ventures!
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Latest in Announcements, Event Progress, or Activities |
| Support
From LWRA For Tour of Sebring Rolls Flat |
Sebring Tour |
August
31, 2008
Since about 1992,
the LWRA has loaned support in the form of radio-controlled
'safety checkpoints' to the cycling event known as "Tour
Of Sebring" which took place on Sunday August 31.
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But
not this year. We let them down like a flat tire on a
long stretch of deserted highway. In fact some parts of
the tour are actually just that! There were zero LWRA
members to help out this time.
Notice of help, or to stay tuned went out on this web
site weeks prior to get folks ready. A week before the
tour, LWRA officers were notified by the tour SAG officials
for help.
With Hurricane Gustav bringing fast moving rain bands
and wind over the County today, this hazard conditions
for people on bicycles with very thin performance tires.
And who knows how many took a wrong turn this year without
the LWRA's help to navigate certain parts of the course,
and to monitor dangerous intersections of highways.
At the very least, one would figure with the increasing
number of local Hams who claim to have a strong interest
in public safety functions, taking all those preparation
courses, that there would be a number of volunteers eager
for some field work to try out their portable emergency
operations gear in a needful situation as the Tour of
Sebring, looking after hundreds of riders. |
| Quick
note from LWRA newsletter editor Rick WB9IJW Note: As
of September '08, the news letter is going out by E-Mail
and not by paper, unless you do not have a computer/internet.
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| Still
Looking For Content to Place on the LWRA Web Site |
The webmaster is still in need of news to place on the
lwra.org web site. This style of web site was designed
to have active content revolving through it frequently,
so as to keep everyone interested in coming back, as opposed
to the ho-hum 'static' web page that just says who we
are ,what the dues are, and where the meetings are, with
little else that never changes like so may other site
out there.
This is pretty much the 'last call' in begging for a continuous
flow of content to keep this site going / interesting
as it was intended. It costs the web master (not the LWRA
) $60 per year to to keep the domain name and needed web
space for the existing content which continues to grow
over time. But with no input about what is going
on in the the LWRA or it's members, the $60 might get
the budget axe come December 21st. CORRECTION: expiration/renewal
is October 21st.
There have already been some pages that have been eliminated
like the items for sale, trade or want, page. One would
figure that would have been a big hit to list your wares
and clean out the shack. But as the years ticked on, that
had not worked at hoped.
Content is easy to come up with when you are an active
ham or member. Even if it only has some small tie with
Amateur Radio, share it! It only takes a bit of your time
and also helps others to get to know your interests better
and thus make new friends to propel your own interests.
This is an all around good thing.
LWRA:
- Report on what happened at the last meeting?
- What positive actions have been accomplished lately?
- What is the Association sure to be doing in the
near future?
Members:
- What is that thing you are working on the bench?
- Share tips on Ham related stuff you learned along
the way.
- Hamshack bloopers are always good. We've all been
there!
- Ham related blasts from the past.
- Usually just one or two good paragraphs will be
fine. As you notice, articles here are generally not that long, just informative.
- Including at least one picture is always a big plus
when composing an article. Be sure to include a short
caption that tells the reader what they're looking
at.
- A number of hams to write short monthly columns
each on different ham topics would be great!
Need some ideas on how to get started? Have a look at
the 4+ years of previous
articles.
To send in your interesting content for the web site use:
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| Repeater
system troubles- What's being done about it? |
September
1, 2008
Snap, crackle, pop, chop-chop-chop,
shhhhhhhhhh, click-BEEP! (then silence)
When the repeater has 'fits' which is all too often since
it went into operation in April 2008, that's what you
get. The repeater eats your signal up and spits out nothing
when it's at it's worst.
The Repeater system is unreliable in this state. |
Revealing
pictures
with annotations (July 25th article) |
| After
5 month of this, is anyone really doing anything about
it or will the ham community just have to live with it
after all the investment it took to get it back on the
air? Time to truly confront this topic don't you think?
Official meetings resume September 11th at 7PM . That
might be the place to start. |
| 2008
LWRA Picnic / Field Day - Article Terminated |
| After
2 months of asking/begging if any one would like to offer
further reviews or pictures of the Field Day/picnic, and
receiving no input (lack of interest?), the continuation
of this article has been terminated. (
BTW, Thanks Don and Dorshane for the awesome poster, great
spirit!) |
| Repeater
is Back On the Air. USE IT! |
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Operation
resumed on April 2, 2008
Frequency: 147.330
with +600 offset
Tone: 127.3 (tone
is not turned on)
Power output: 40
Watts
Tower
statistics:
Located in downtown Lake Wales. Water tower height 130'.
Ground elevation (ASL) 234'. Will be about 75' higher
than previous site. Antenna type: DB224 (4- bay folded
dipole) |
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| Web
Site Updates |
What's
New Here? |
Page
changes as of
September 1:
Previous site changes occurred on Aug. 25th. |
| Repeater
Status |
| State
of Systems |
Gray
= Checking...
Green = Good
Yellow = Out of params.
Red = Non-functional
* Engineers
repair log |
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Activity |
| Hot
Stuff! |
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every 10min.)
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Geomagnetic Field:
Details at n3kl.org
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10 meter beacon spotting's. |
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