<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px">You are invited to attend the <span class="gmail-il">annual</span> <span class="gmail-il">meeting</span> of Western Indiana Radio Emergency Services (W.I.R.E.S.) to be held on Wednesday, December 14, at 6:30 p.m. at the Imagination Station in downtown Lafayette (600 North 4th Street). It is being held just prior to the Tippecanoe Amateur Radio Association (TARA) <span class="gmail-il">meeting</span> on the second floor of the building. </span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><div style="font-size:12.8px">WIRES repeaters are open for all to use. We ask for <span class="gmail-il">annual</span> dues from hams in the area who wish to help support them. Building, operating, and maintaining communications infrastructure, like WIRES provides, takes considerable funding. Some of the ongoing expenses include: insurance, repairs, preventative maintenance, equipment upgrades, and adding redundancy to vital parts of the system.<br><br>Your $25 <span class="gmail-il">annual</span> dues ($20 for seniors and students) make it all possible. The WIRES repeaters and communications systems are for YOU to use, and we are here to help make that happen. But WIRES relies on the financial support of the system users to keep the repeaters operating.<br><br>Please consider donating to help maintain the WI9RES repeater system, as it is a valuable resource for communications in our area. WIRES is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Contributions to WIRES are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Dues can be paid and additional donations made in person at the <span class="gmail-il">annual</span> <span class="gmail-il">meeting</span> (checks preferred, cash accepted), by mail, or online. Details can be found online here: <a href="http://www.wires-repeater.org/" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">www.wires-repeater.org</a> </div><div style="font-size:12.8px">If that link doesn't work, try: <a href="http://www.wr9a.com/?PageId=2" target="_blank">www.wr9a.com/?PageId=2</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Be sure to mark this important date on your calendar: Wednesday, December 14 at 6:30 pm at the Imagination Station in downtown Lafayette. Hope to see you there. 73</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature">_______________________________<br>Stephen M. Parker, WR9A</div><div class="gmail_signature">President, W.I.R.E.S.<br><a href="mailto:WR9Aradio@gmail.com" target="_blank">WR9Aradio@gmail.com</a><br>_______________________________<br></div></div><div class="gmail_signature"><br></div>
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