| 1956 | Six men organize Jefferson Amateur Radio Club on February 1 in the Jefferson Community Center at Jefferson Playground,
set dues at 25 cents pet month and meetings on fourth Thursdays; Club incorporates June 28 |
| 1957 | Club station K5ISI goes on the air January 26; club affiliates with ARRL and co-sponsors New Orleans Hamfest with the
Greater New Orleans Amateur Radio Club |
| 1958 | Club handles television interference complaints from FCC |
| 1959 | Sunday net on 3.950 mc. renamed "Jefferson Parish Net" |
| 1960 | Club settles in fire house at 4652 Calumet Street |
| 1961 | Members adopt emblem; club moves to Metairie Playground |
| 1962 | Al Lestelle's call, W5GAD, replaces K5ISI as JARC's call |
| 1963 | Club buys novice station |
| 1964 | Club adopts membership ratio of three Jefferson Parish residents to one non-parish resident |
| 1965 | Vandals damage club equipment |
| 1966 | Six meter net at 9:30 a.m. Sundays starts on 50.55 MHz |
| 1967 | "Remember Betsy" Field Day June 22-23 |
| 1968 | JARC passes scores from Dixie Little League team on the road to officials in Metairie Playground |
| 1969 | Club station is licensed for general class until Earl Barrilleaux, K5IZD, trustee, obtains his advanced ticket |
| 1970 | JARC receives ARRL's unsolicited Public Service Award for communications after hurricane Camille hit the gulf coast Aug. 17, 1969 |
| 1971 | Board recommends limiting membership to 85 |
| 1972 | Members contribute to the "novice crystal bank" |
| 1973 | Senator Joseph Tiemann (W5DNU) and attorney general say hams won't have to pay $25 automobile "vanity license" fee for
amateur call letter plates |
| 1974 | Prices rise to 35 cents for beer and 20 cnets for soft drinks in the clubhouse |
| 1975 | Club makes nation's leading multi-operator station score in ARRL's November Sweepstakes, working all states except Alaska |
| 1976 | Jefferson Parish Civil Defense and Guatemala's president praise JARC for donating two weeks of communications after an earthquake
hit that country February 4; 12 persons operated 370 hours for the disaster |
| 1977 | Leon Lessard (WB5ZED) and Ray Crain (WB5VJI now KB5GA) remodel club house |
| 1978 | W5GAD/R goes on air on 70 cm (444.000 +5) and 2 meters(147.885 -.600) |
| 1979 | Sid Wilson (WB5GFM) manages club's part in Navy MARS' Antartic "ICE" net Fridays during Navy Support Force's "Deep Freeze
Winter-Over 1979" |
| 1980 | About 1,500 attend club's AMACOM '80 hamfest and computerfest |
| 1981 | Florence Muleisen (K5PO) becomes club's first woman president |
| 1983 | 40M Beam installed, now we have 20M, 15/10M and 40M Beams |
| 1984 | Club helps build and operate station K5WF for the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair |
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| 1988 | Club's VHF/UHF repeaters are moved to East Jefferson General Hospital |
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| 1990 | A second VHF repeater on 145.37 -.600 is placed in service by the JARC at Southern Baptist Hospital
(now Memorial Medical Center) |
| 1991 | Morse code station installed at Childrens Museum |
| 1992 | New roof installed on clubhouse |
| 1993 | Club updates Articles and bylaws, Membership hits 150 |
| 1994 | Club tower rebuilt, now at 131' high |
| 1995 | Club spends over $2,000 fighting malicious interference |
| 1996 | JARC-VEC begins electronically filing exam results. New call signs are being issued in as fast as one day |
| 1997 | Club purchases new all band radio, Emergency generator installed at clubhouse |
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| 2005 | Hurricane Katrina destroys JARC's club house and all of it's equipment. Over 5 feet of water flooded the club house. Efforts begin to search for grants and assistance from those sympathetic to our cause. |
