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Category: Lectures

News 8.10.2023

Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – October 8, 2023 The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10:30am. As always, members and visitors are most welcome. Last Saturday we had a big roll-up for a combined lecture and show and tell event at the clubhouse. Michael VK2HFN gave us a very informative…
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CCARC ALE Lecture and Show and Tell – 30 September 2023

Last Saturday we had a big roll-up for a combined lecture and show and tell event at the clubhouse. Michael VK2HFN gave us a very informative lecture about Automatic Link Establishment (ALE). He covered it’s purpose, origin, workings and how to use it with Amateur HF radios. Michael deftly handled the questions from the audience…
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News 1.10.2023

Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – October 1, 2023 The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10:30am. As always, members and visitors are most welcome. Yesterday the club held a lecture on Automatic Link Establishment along with a general show and tell. Next Saturday, October 7, at 9am the club will…
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News 24.09.2023

Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – September 24, 2023 The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10:30am. Next Saturday, September 30, the club will be holding a lecture in combination with the monthly Show and Tell. Starting at 11am, the lecture will be given by Michael, VK2HFN, on Automatic Link Establishment…
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Introduction To Arduino Lecture / Workshop

Saturday 29th July 2023 saw 12 people attend the CCARC clubhouse for a lecture and workshop introducing the Arduino series of microcontrollers.A Powerpoint presentation took us on a brief journey on the development of microcontrollers and how functionality has evolved from dedicated hardware to transducers interfaced to an Arduino and the functionality provided in software.…
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CCARC Show and Tell – 27.05.2023

The Central Coast Amateur Radio Club had yet another successful show and tell at our clubrooms on Saturday the 27th May. We had a good roll-up of both members and visitors. This event wasn’t themed so had a good variety of interesting stuff. Ryan kicked the day off with a live presentation of what SDR…
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CCARC 29 April 2023 Show and Tell

The last Saturday of the month is the CCARC’s regular Show and Tell event and April’s event was a great success. Bob showed us hand cranked Meggers for insulation testing and a low ohms model for earth quality testing. He also showed us an azimuth and elevation antenna rotator and controller that he had reconditioned…
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NEWS 27.11.2022

Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – November 27, 2022 The club rooms at Kariong are open every Saturday from 10:30am.Congratulations to Andy, VK2AAK, the winner of the first Christmas Ham event – a Siglent SpectrumAnalyser. The second event ends at midday on December 9. You can find out more from our web page orsocial…
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NEWS 06.11.2022

Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – November 6, 2022 We have been advised of the sad news that David, VK2NU has become Silent Key.David was a member of the Central Coast and Westlakes clubs and was a great operator, avidContester and SOTA advocate. David could often be found playing with DMR, D-Star or trekkingthrough…
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Show and Tell Saturday

An initiative was started to try and make the club rooms not look as deserted as they have been lately thanks to the pandemic. Show & Tell Saturday – Scheduled for the last Saturday of each month will be open for members and visitors to bring along any items of interest to show, display and…
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