SKYWARN Weather Spotter nets are activated on the 146.970 repeater during severe weather.

The Wet Net is normally held Monday-Saturday mornings (6-7am) on the 146.970 repeater to collect precipitation reports. Contact Bill, W9OPR with your report. If no net is heard, check 146.610 repeater instead.

Digital

LPCARC is the home to three repeaters. The K9JSI 146.610 has several remote receivers through out the county. The K9JSi is strickly a FM Analog system. The other two are under the call W9LY. Both are FM Analog and C4FM Digital. The UHF system is attached to Yeasu's Wires-X network. Why digital? Just like CW, digtal tones can be heard through QRM and weak signals error corrections helps to get through when analog can't. Not to mention the quality of the audio. With Wires-X you can talk around the world from your lazyboy recliner.

This is the home of the W9LY repeaters. Located at US 35 and Schultz Road north of La Porte, it is a convenient location for members and visitors. It is also the site of our annual Field Day operation. Thanks to Danny Scheetz, W9DWS, for generously allowing use of his facility for our ham activities. Danny is also the Trustee of the W9LY club call sign.

Photo courtesy of N9ZIP

• W9LY VHF is a Yaesu DR-1X System Fusion digital system. It is capable of Yaesu System Fusion digital (C4FM) as well as FM analog. Power is 50 Watts into a Telewave TPRD 1454 duplexer. The antenna is a DB Products DB 224 E mounted at 220 feet above ground level (1120 feet above sea level). This is located at the club's Schultz Road Tower site.

• K9JSI VHF is a Kenwood TKR-750 VHF Repeater with a Pacific Research RI-300 Controller. It also has a LDG voting selector and is fed with signal from the main site along with three remote sites using Kenwood TM-V71 radios as cross band link repeaters. The sites are located at the Lincoln Township Fire Station (State Road 4 at Fish Lake), Noble Township Fire Station (800 S at Union Mills), and the Springfield Township Fire Station (North 300 W). Power is 50 Watts into a Telewave TPRD 1454 duplexer. The antenna is also a DB Products DB 224 E mounted on top of the LaPorte Hospital.

• W9LY UHF is a Yaesu DR-1X System Fusion digital system. It is running Yaesu System Fusion digital (C4FM) as well as FM analog. It is normally tied to WIRES-X. Power is 40 Watts into a Telewave duplexer. The Antenna is a Hustler 6dB omnidirectional at 200 feet above ground level (1100 feet above sea level).This is located at the club's Schultz road Tower site.

W9LY Repeaters (since June 2016)
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Photo credit: LPCARC Facebook page