UPCOMING EVENTS - (See the "Events" link on this page for more detail)
March 09, 2012 - Rayne Hamfest - Acadiana Amateur Radio Association – Rayne, LA
March 24, 2012 - New Orleans Hamfest - Jefferson ARC, NOLA ARC, Delta DX Assoc. - New Orleans, LA
April 21, 2012 - Monroe Hamfest - Twin City Ham Club – Monroe, LA
July 21, 2012 - Slidell Hamfest - Ozone Amateur Radio Club – Slidell, LA

SECTION APPOINTMENTS: None this month

SECTION TRAFFIC REPORTS: Carlos Ingram, KB5YEG Section Traffic Manager

SECTION ARES STATISTICS:
(statistics delayed - Jim will fill later)
    ARES MEMBERS NR,
    DRILLS/TRAINING NR MH NR,
    PUBLIC SERVICE EVENTS NR MH NR,
    EMERGENCY OPERATIONS NR MH NR,
    TOTAL OPERATIONS NR MH NR,
    ARES NET SESSIONS NR CHECKINS NR

EC REPORTS RECEIVED: NR

OTHER REPORTS RECEIVED: Ron Riviere, WB5CXJ OOC, Jim Howard, K5TC OO.

THE OFFICIAL SOURCE OF LOUISIANA SECTION UPDATES is the Section Website www.laarrl.org. Important information about your individual, club and group accomplishments will be published on the site and will no longer be included in the Section Summary. Please note the next paragraph. Any news about special events or requests for event help, etc. will be issued as a Section Bulletin to all members in the Section. If you wish for me to issue such a bulletin, simply email the information to me at k5gls@arrl.org providing all pertinent information. Because all email bulletins must be reviewed and approved at ARRL HQ, information received late on Friday or on the weekend may not go out until the following Monday.

CLUB OR INDIVIDUAL MEMBER NEWS: If you wish to have noteworthy information about club activities, individual achievements, etc. included on the Louisiana Section Website, please send your club newsletter or achievement information to Ken Standard AD5XJ@ARRL.NET. We intend to move more of this type of news to the website instead of including it here.

Club and Group Newsletter publishers please be sure to send a copy to Ken Standard AD5XJ@arrl.net so that they can be published on the Section Website! [If your newsletter is published online please send the link and it will be used.]

Propagation and Contest information on the Louisiana Section Website: Our section website has information that should be of great interest to contesters. Every Friday the WebMaster updates the propagation forecast for the weekend. If significant propagation events occur during the week, a brief summary of the event appears as a scrolling marquee on the home page and the Web Site is updated with the impact to the Louisiana Section on the Contesting and DX page in a Solar News article. To access the propagation information go to the following link: www.laarrl.org/dx.html.

SILENT KEYS: The following were reported to me this month:
 Lynn Tiller KK5VM
 Richard "Mack" McCandless KA5CMX
 Glenn Peterson N5NKK
 John Webb K5ANN
 Lorraine Inabnet KD5EIX
 Travis McKee W5JIF
Our sympathy to their families and friends.