4 Dandaloo Street, Kariong NSW 2250
+61 (02) 4340 2500
ccarc@ccarc.org.au

Category: Hobby

NEWS 02.04.2023

Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – April 2, 2023The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10am. As always, members and visitors are mostwelcome.At the VK2RAG Somersby repeater site, the D-Star, Rad-Net DMR and 2m Echolink services are fullyfunctional.The club Web SDR at Somersby. Websdr.ccarc.org.au is configured to listen on 6 metres,…
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NEWS 26.03.2023

Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – March 26, 2023The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10am. As always, members and visitors are mostwelcome.The club sends their best wishes for a speedy recovery to our repeater coordinator, Don VK2ZCZ.Don’t be an April Fool! The next monthly business meeting will be at 1pm…
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NEWS 19.03.2023

Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – March 19, 2023 The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10am. As always, members and visitors are mostwelcome.The CCARC held their antenna workshop yesterday to clean and re-fit their tri-band beam antenna.The club rooms were full of willing participants who were offered pizza in exchange…
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Beam Antenna Repair Day – Saturday 18th March 2023

The CCARC’s 20M, 15M and 10M beam antenna at our clubhouse had developed high SWR so we decided to have a working bee to fix it up. We put the word out and got a very good roll up of willing helpers on a clear warm day. We started the day with a project and…
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operating portable

operating portable can be a great way to test out your radio and antenna setup, here we have some evening operation using an IC-7O5, Tablet and a MP1 Super Antenna. Reports of very strong US stations and several Japan contacts on various digital modes

Reminder that our raffle kicks off tomorrow!

1st of March 2023 till 24th March 2023 with 2 bumper prizes!*Important! – This link is NOT available until tomorrow 1/3/23 https://rafflelink.com.au/ccarcmarch *First up with thanks to RF Solutions in Queensland we have a Rigexpert AA-1500 Antenna analyser. The analyser is designed for measuring SWR (standing wave ratio), return loss, cable loss, as well as…
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NEWS 26.02.2023

Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – February 26, 2023 The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10am. Next Saturday will be the monthly businessmeeting, starting at 1pm. Information will be distributed to members by email during the week. There willalso be an antenna workshop on March 18. As always, members and…
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NEWS 12.02.2023

Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – February 12, 2023 The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10am.Mayham for 2023 has been postponed and will not be run. The committee are refocusing and realigning the direction of the event and hope to return in 2024.The club will be running the postponed third…
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Those Raffles? They’re back!

Christmas holiday seasons done? Bank accounts mildly recovered? Perfect! Those Raffles? They’re back! We’re excited to announce the postponed 3rd CCARC raffle is coming up! 1st of March 2023 till 24th March 2023 with 2 bumper prizes! First up with thanks to RF Solutions in Queensland we have a Rigexpert AA-1500 Antenna analyser. The analyser…
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NEWS 05.02.2023

Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – February 5, 2023 The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10am.Mayham for 2023 has been postponed and will not be run. The committee are refocusing and realigning the direction of the event and hope to return in 2024.The club will be running the postponed third…
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