Welcome to the GARA.
GREETINGS Y'ALL FROM COASTAL GEORGIA!
Welcome to the Glynn Amateur Radio Association (GARA) website. GARA is a club of FCC licensed Amateur radio operators located in the Brunswick, Georgia area. We are also known affectionately as "Hams". Brunswick is located on the southeast Georgia coast situated in Glynn county on the Atlantic Ocean. Included are Saint Simons Island and Jekyll Island and this area is often referred to as the "Golden Isles." Adjoining counties include McIntosh, Wayne, Brantley and Camden counties.
The GARA Club owns and operates a 2 meter FM repeater licensed as WX4BWK which is located on the Sydney Lanier Bridge. GARA conducts a weekly net each Thursday evening at 7pm eastern time. Repeater frequency is 145.330 MHz with a tone of 131.8 Hz. Duplex offset is negative 600 Hz. The repeater can also be accessed on Echolink node 903179 (WE8J-R). The repeater and Net are open to all licensed Hams. Of course, a license is not required just to listen.
GARA Club meetings are held on the second Monday of each month at the Golden Corral restaurant in Brunswick at 6pm eastern time. Our Ham "Social" occurs on the last Friday of each month at 6pm eastern time usually at Hardee's. All Hams and those interested in the hobby are invited to attend.
Please feel free to look around our site and click on the provided links for more information. If you are interested in joining the GARA Club, please click on the "JOIN" button for more details.
Please click on the NEWS button above for Ham Radio happenings
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HOT HAM NEWS!!!!!
LIBERTY SHIP COMMEMORATION
SPECIAL EVENT (K4B)
All are invited to meet at McDonalds for breakfast before the Special Event. (Location: Hwy US 17 Saturday at 7:15am)
Brunswick, Georgia's contribution to the Liberty Ship building war effort is being commemorated by the Glynn Amateur Radio Association (GARA)! On Saturday, December 14, 2019 all ham radio enthusiasts as well as the general public are welcome to join our radio club at Liberty Ship Park from 8:00 am until 5:00 pm. The GARA club will be operating several ham radio stations in the shadow of the ship construction site. We will be contacting other radio stations in commemoration of the 99 Liberty Ships built by 16,000 Brunswick residents from 1943 - 1945. The 100th ship was built as a 23-foot memorial model and is displayed currently at Mary Ross Park.
We especially want to commemorate the dedicated ship builders who in December of 1944 were commissioned the greatly-needed yet never-before-accomplished task of building six ships in one month! Our proud and patriotic builders went above and beyond by working through their Christmas break and building seven ships, even working without pay!
Radio operators should listen for us as special event callsign K4B on the 20- and 40-meter HF radio bands nationwide. Come on out to Liberty Ship Park on Saturday, December 14th to help our radio club remember Brunswick's proud history!
