The Lake Erie Amateur Radio Association - WB8CQR WR8ABC

Greater Cleveland's Amateur Radio Group

On May 27, 1969, the last Tuesday of that month, a group of Hams interested in repeaters who had been meeting informally for some time decided to form a new Amateur Radio Club - The Lake Erie Amateur Radio Association.  Someone mentioned that this new club would need a leader and Bill Hess, K8SGX, volunteered and became LEARA's first president.  And thus was born what would become the largest Amateur Radio club in the greater Cleveland area!

For over 40 years LEARA has been providing public service and emergency communications of Northeast Ohio.  The club call signs are WB8CQR and WR8ABC, and the club is an official ARRL affiliated club.  Welcome to our site!  Please explore the links to the left and don't forget to join us at one of our meetings!

Want to hear what D-STAR is all about?  WB8APD has streaming audio online of his D-STAR system.  Check it out here.

The .88 rebuild project has begun.  Please be aware: the temporary .88 repeater operates differently.  In addition, the 444.700 repeater will be off the air during this time.

The IRLP node is offline.  We hope to have it back online when the .88 rebuild project is completed.

Items in red are LEARA club events, green are hamfests, and gray are holidays.