Field Day 2025

The Ozone Amateur Radio Club will be participating in Field Day on June 28, 2025 from our Clubhouse/Emergency Communications Center at 2190 Fourth Street in Slidell, LA. Setup will begin at 9:00 AM. An educational presentation will be made during the lunch period prior to the beginning of contact-making. If you have an interest in either Amateur Radio or the General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS), come out and visit with us. We will be out there all day Saturday. Weather permitting, we will have temporary radio stations set up outside as well as our permanent indoor facilities.

The Ozone Club sponsors both the 147.270 repeater and the GMRS Channel 19 repeater from Lacombe, LA in St. Tammany Parish. Members also provide volunteers who man the ham radio communications rooms for both the St. Tammany Emergency Operations Center in Covington, LA and the(EOC) and the City of Slidell EOC for the parish and city governments during emergency activations.

Volunteers also act as Storm Spotters for the National Weather Service Office that covers SE Louisiana and South Mississippi located in Slidell, LA. Members witnessing certain reportable weather phenomena can radio the information into one of several members who are in direct contact with the on-duty meteorologists at the Weather Service office. This gives Weather Service personnel the information they need to make more accurate weather predictions and to send out Weather Alert watches and warnings to the general public.

If you have an interest in seeing or participating in the methods we use to maintain communications for our government agencies when all else fails come by for a visit.