September 25, 2005. Implemented a new Event Calendar. Link on sidebar. September 23, 2005. In addition to N4KI turning 62, this is also the day that www.club.letarc.net was born. Our web page is now hosted on Bluehost web servers with 4000 Mb of storage and a host of other enhancements. All this for slightly less than half of what I paid for 600 Mb on the prior web server. One of the best features of this new server is the availability of 20 subdomains per account. We now have the club web page on its own separate subdomain along with a separate FTP account and password. Bottom line - I can now give an individual the access to modify/maintain the club site without giving him access to all of letarc.net. I have allotted 50 Mb to club.letarc.net. If we have any interested webmasters, please step forward. You will be given your own subdomain and 10 Mb to show what you can do before I turn you loose on our web page. I will be looking at both the artistic and technical design of your sample web page. We can skip this if you already have an impressive web page on the internet that I can examine. Now is the time to get your own full-featured POP3 @letarc.net e-mail account. We now have 2500 available. I highly recommend the Spam Box Trap with your e-mail account. It requires each sender to respond to a query by simply clicking on "Reply" and sending it back. This is to assure that the e-mail is from a real person. Contact me if you are a club member and are interested. August 18, 2005. The June/July Newsletter is now online. Photo Albums The links to the photo albums have been removed. The free sites are now trying to make you pay to see all the pop-up adds and this condition is intolerable. Look for changes in how LETARC photos will be displayed. We have 4000 Mb of paid web space and currently use about 135 Mb of it. When LETARC photos return, they will no longer be riddled with pop-ups, pop-unders and cookies. July 6, 2001. ARRL president Jim Haynie sent a letter to LETARC president Jerry Combest regarding the visit to Longview. Click here to view the letter. June 30, 2001. ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, was an honored guest speaker at the monthly LETARC meeting. He gave a very interesting insight into how the political process addresses amateur radio, not just in Washington but globally. His main message was that hams need to go out and "sell" amateur radio to our communities in order for our hobby to grow. We also learned that most countries feel that without ARRL, amateur radio as we know it would collapse within a few years. His presentation was lively, entertaining, and extremely informative. December 3, 2000. The LETARC Club is once again ARRL affiliated. An appropriate display has been added to the sidebar. The important thing to remember about ARRL affiliation is to RENEW, UPGRADE OR BEGIN YOUR ARRL MEMBERSHIP through the club. The club is then able to retain a portion of the ARRL fee at no additional cost the the member. September 5, 2000. LETARC now has an online Part 97 FCC rulebook. See link on sidebar. A hearty "Well Done" to KD5KEI/Larry for this invaluable addition to the site. April 23, 2000. East Texas was hit with a series of severe storms and tornadoes. After Longview and Marshall were hit, a new line formed to the south which went from horizon to horizon. This line then moved south and east hitting Carthage, Nacogdoches, Henderson and many parts of Louisiana. Collage2.jpg is a composite of 5 photos taken around 5:15PM at the intersection of Gilmer Rd and Loop 281 in Longview when the line was first forming. Photo by the webmaster.

     LETARC meets the second Saturday of each month at 9:00am at     
         the Red Cross Building on Hwy 31 South in Longview.

       On-the-air meetings every Tuesday at 8:30 PM on 147.34.
                       Open to ALL  AMATEURS

              Club Repeater - KI5UA/147.34 (+) (136.5Hz tone)

                         2005 Club Officers

                       President - Jeff Jones, KD5HJI
                 Vice President - Kurt Harris, KD5UVB
               Secretary / Treasurer - Jim Quinn, KC5PJR
           Communications Director - Robert Parham, KD5OUF
                Newsletter Editor - Matthew Mullins, AD5SA          
         Communications Director is the Club Repeater Trustee

The East Texas Amateur Radio community, LETARC, and the public in general, are indebted to Trinity Industries, one of the area's major industrial sites. Trinity has donated power and bench space as well as the dedicated tower on Jordan Valley Road. This site hosts 6 meters, 220-, and 440-MHz repeaters with a 2-meter repeater being planned. The tower is featured on the sidebar with W5HD (now a silent key) doing the steeplejack duty. Coordination with Trinity Industries is through Robert Braack/KD5HJJ.

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This is an informal space for your webmaster to make announcements regarding the status of the web site.
As mentioned below, I was in dire need of more web space. The extra web space was needed for an extensive collection of Railroad (mostly local) and Coast Guard photos. You are cordially invited to visit these sites at:
The Longview Yard
Photolab '97 - first section of Coast Guard photos.
Bahooglia Photolab - second section of Coast Guard photos.
as well as my main page at Cutter Bahooglia

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