Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – May 3, 2026 The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10:30am. As always, members and visitors are most welcome. On Sunday, May 24, at 2pm the club will be participating the 80th anniversary of the Kariong progress hall, situated two doors away from the club…
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The Central Coast Amateur Radio Club held another one of our portable days on Saturday the 13th of September at Kariong Gardens park. After a quick recharge of coffee and cake in the cafe we gathered in the shade next to the sports field. Portable stations were all set up on battery power using both…
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Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – September 7, 2025 Next Saturday. September 13, the club will be holding a “Go fly a kite” day at Mount Penang Gardens. Gather at the cafe at 10:30 and bring your portable equipment. Graham, VK2GRA, will also be attempting to fly some antennas with a kite. Members and…
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Graham and Michael had a chat yesterday and thought of doing a portable day very soon. Graham is interested in trying a “Kite Antenna”. There’s plenty of designs online for people to have a look at. What we’ve come up with is the 2nd Saturday in September, that being the 13th September at the Penang…
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Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – June 16,2024 The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10:30am. As always, members and visitors are most welcome. On June 8, the club held a “portable day” at The Skillion in Terrigal. Overall a good time was had taking part in the “VK Shires” contest…
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Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – June 18, 2023 Yesterday the club held an “HF in the Park” day inside Mount Penang Gardens with the club callsign,VK2AFY. Perfect weather for a portable day out. There are some photos on Social Media.Today we have a number of folk sitting exams for various grades of license…
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Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – June 11, 2023Next weekend, June 17 and 18, a Foundation and education training weekend is taking place at the clubrooms with training on the Saturday and exams on the Sunday. As such, the club has planned an “HF in the park” day starting at 10:00am on Saturday inside…
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Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – June 4, 2023 The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10:30am. As always, members and visitors are most welcome.The Club had yet another successful show and tell at our clubrooms last Saturday. We had a good roll-up of both members and visitors. The event wasn’t…
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On the 12th of May,VK2GRA (Graham) and VK2FRTS (Ryan) started at Girakool Picnic Area SW of Kariong, NSW, Australia on a “Mini Dx Expedition”. It was a beautiful sunny day with clear blue skies and not a whisper of wind around as we set off from the Picnic Area. Not far down the track VK2FRTS…
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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
