• Next club meeting is May 11th at the Carrollton Community Center.
• WGARS now has D-star equipment and will be working on getting the 440 repeater up and operational as soon as possible.
• The club generators are for sale. If interested contact

W.G.A.R.S. runs two Communications 'Nets' every week.

• On Mondays, The Club Net is held at 8pm (20:00 hours) local time on the 2 Meter repeater.
• On Thursdays, the EM COMM Net is held at 8pm (20:00 hours) local time on the 2 Meter repeater.

The WGARS 2 Meter repeater (W4FWD) operates on a frequency of 146.640 with a standard minus 600Khz transmit frequency offset. The repeater uses a 131.8 tone for access.
If you wish to participate as net control in either net, contact KE4FEM for net scheduling and to get a copy of the net preambles.

If you have any comments, requests, web sites to submit, posts, or other contact

146.640 / -600 khz offset / 131.8 pl. tone

If you are interested in running severe weather nets, please contact KE4FEM to get the new 'Severe Weather Net Preamble' issued by the WGARS EM-COMM Group.

The new preamble has the criteria for starting a severe weather net on the W4FWD repeater and the responsibilities of net control during the net.

D-Star
Team

A friendly reminder that club dues were due in January. You can mail them to the address below, contact Dale (KE4FEM) about joining, or pay them at the club meeting.

-WGARS uses the following simplex frequencies during our simplex nets or when the repeater is down.
-The EM-COMM group will be using these frequencies in emergency situations when the repeater is unavalible or in use with priority traffic.

146.565 (primary)
147.555 (secondary)