[W2CRA] Fw: Asbury Park Repeater / Hamfest

[William Powell]

 Bill Powell - WB1GOT
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----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Bill Shockley <bshockley123 at verizon.net>
To: NJ2H at ARRL.NET
Sent: Thu, September 20, 2012 2:58:01 PM
Subject: Asbury Park Repeater / Hamfest


Please pass this on to your club members:
 
We are pleased to tell you that the Garden State Amateur Radio Association has 
acquired the repeater commonly known as the Asbury Park Repeater, 147.045 
(though it is not in Asbury Park!). Once all the paperwork is done, it will be 
renamed the Garden State Repeater and its callsign will be W2GSA.
 
This repeater is used extensively in Monmouth County by our club, and also 
Monmouth ARES on Monday evenings and QCWA on Tuesday evenings. It is also used 
by Skywarn for severe weather announcements, so I suggest programming it into 
your radios if you live or travel in the Ocean/Monmouth area.
 
W2GSA will be an open repeater +600 PL67.0. Feel free to make use of it or just 
to introduce yourself. It is normally monitored by several club members during 
the day and evening.
Our club holds meetings on the first and third Wednesdays of the month at 7:30pm 
at the Red Cross building in Tinton Falls. We also have a DX interest group that 
meets on the last Monday of the month. For more information, please contact me. 
All are welcome.
 
And don’t forget our Hamfest this Saturday. Details are at our website, 
www.gardenstateara.org. Our ARRL vice director will be speaking at 9:30 am 
followed by VE testing. Talk in will be via the above repeater.
 
Also note that in October we plan to begin monthly VE testing. More details to 
follow.
 
73
Bill NJ2H