OCTOBER EDITION featuring the months-of August, September
Greetings fellow Hams, just to catch everyone up to date on LCARA.
On August the 9th LCARA was awarded the Club of the year for 2025 by the Cincinnati Ham club at their Ham Fest.
On August 30th we held our Annual Fish Fry with 38 members, family and friends. We all had a great time and look forward to seeing more on August 29, 2026—note this occurs yearly on the last Saturday in August, so mark your calendars.
On September 20th we participated in 1/2Marathon/10K race for Habitat for Humanity with 11 LCARA Members present. This was our first year for this event. We provided communications.
Our Annual Special Event Station K4S was on the air at the September 27th Somernites Cruise with 12 LCARA members participating, Made over 300 contacts—QSL cards are arriving daily.
OCTOBER News:
Saturday October 4th Alton Blakley Annual 5K Run/Walk for Breast Cancer Awareness. 12 Members from LCARA 10 provided communications, Jody ran the race and Chad was there with Rescue Squad Ambulance.
LCARA’S next big community event will be on Tuesday October 28th at the Center for Rural Development with the TECH show case—see calendar on this web site for more information.
Our two repeater sites are functioning well as we have had to miss several workdays for the events listed above. Look for new items, repeaters etc. Coming later this year and next. Thanks to all who help maintain these repeaters.
Hands On with LCARA, has just complete our June build of the Auto Shut Off box. We are now in need of a new project. We had 20 members who built these starting with just a printed circuit board and parts—great job guys & gals.
Please check out our web site www.lcara.net you maybe surprised what you can see and learn about LCARA. We have 104 members so yes! Come to these events, projects, meetings get involved with your club. You miss out on what we are about and doing.
We are now a member of the Chamber of Commerce here in Pulaski County. We’re becoming involved with Connect Community Village a local project for Veterans to learn more come to monthly meetings.
Check our calendar just click on the date for locations, time and event. Also Groups.io sends out our weekly events. We have breakfast every Wednesday morning from 8 to 10 am Eastern time at our local Big Boy Restaurant on US 27 South Somerset KY.
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