Our organization serves the Terrebonne, Lafourche, Assumption, St. John, St James, and St Charles parishes. We are one of the oldest Amateur 'Ham' Radio clubs in Louisiana, founded in 1921 at Thibodaux High School. We were originally issued the call sign 5YL, and now we have the callsign W5YL. We boast 45 members from around Louisiana, with members and friends across the southern USA and beyond. We are FCC licensed volunteer radio hobbyists who share not only a passion for long-range radio communications, but we also have an abiding desire to assist local emergency responders and NGO's during hurricane recovery operations when immediate and reliable communications capabilities are required. To achieve these goals, we employ state of the art digital communication methods, as well as the old reliable "wire hung in a tree" and Morse Code when all else fails.