GRATIOT COUNTY AMATEUR RADIO NET
Weekly, Wednesday Evenings at 1900 hrs (7:00 pm)
145.370 Repeater
Net Control Log for Net 2026-03-25
Good evening and welcome to the weekly GCARA (Gratiot County Amateur Radio Association) Net. All amateur Radio operators are welcome to attend. This is a directed net so please direct all traffic through the net control station, NAME:_____Mike_________CALLSIGN:____N5QYQ__________ who will be serving as your net control operator this evening. Emergency or Priority traffic will take precedence. At this time, is there any station with Emergency or priority traffic, please call now. Please give your call sign phonetically, slowly, so I can make sure I get them correctly Nothing heard, we will now proceed with regular check-in’s for this evening’s net. We’ll start with any Mobile check-ins. Are there any mobile check-in’s? Please call now. Now we’ll go to fixed station check-in’s. Fixed stations please call now.
Note: After all stations have checked in, proceed to the Trivia question(s).
TRIVIA QUESTION:
Trivia question number 1: What is your favorite band and why?Answers inlcuded: “Whatever band I’m working at the time”; 10m, 20m, 40m 2m, 70cm,
We’ll begin with our first check in:
Note: After first round, announce the right answer to trivia question and then announce the BONUS question. Use the same check-in order. At this time, pause and ask if there are any additional check-ins to the net at this time.
BONUS QUESTION:
Trivia Question 2: What Amateur Radio equipment and antennas do you have? Answers included: Rigs: Kenwood (HF and UHF/VHF); ICOM IC-7300); Antennas: Wire antennas, discone, Ringo Ranger, Hy-Gain 18AVQII, Dipole for 20m, Cushcraft A4S triband beam, J-Pole, G5RV dipole, and Ten Tenna long wire.
Note: After all have taken a guess, provide the correct answer then move to Announcements.
Total Check-Ins for the net: 10
Total Echo-Link Check-Ins: 7
N5QYQ – Mike (Net Control)
KB8DQQ – Bob
KD8DAX – Zach (President of GCARA)
WD8JRI – Kelly (GCARA Historian)
KD8ZEQ – Jim via (Echolink messaging only)
KF8FKN – Luke
KD8IXV – Jason
Non-Echo-Link Check – Ins:
WX8Z – Jim
NT0Y – Jay
KE8YAV – Andrew
Announcements:
Zach:
• Don’t forget this coming Saturday, March 28 at 11:00 am, is the GCARA Club breakfast at J. J. Ruby’s located at 2862 North State Road, Ithaca, Michigan 48847. Any and All Amateur Radio Operators are welcome to join us!
• GCARA is looking to obtain a set of repeater cans for the Cedar Lake Repeater but they are hard to come by and expensive. If anyone knows where they can be found at a good price, let Zach know. Mike, N5QYQ suggested the possibility of putting a request on the QRZ website forum, another similar such forum for amateur radio operators, and DX engineering.
Jason:
• Negotiations continue with Montcalm County Sherriff’s Department for installing the Cedar Lake Repeater antenna on their tower located on top of the Cedar Lake, Michiganwater tower.