Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – June 29, 2025 The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10:00am. As always, members and visitors are most welcome. The next monthly meeting will be held at the Kariong premises at 1pm on Saturday July 5. The meeting will be preceded by a BBQ at…
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Members of the Central Coast Amateur Radio Club met at the club on June 21 to build a 7 MHZ vertical antenna. The impetus for this build came to get a 40 meter antenna ready for the upcoming Trans-Tasman contest which we will be participating in. The antenna is easily built and doesn’t cost much.…
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Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – July 16, 2023 The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10:30am. As always, members and visitors are most welcome.Due to a lot of interest, the club will be holding a workshop introducing the Arduino microcontroller. Theworkshop will cover the basics and be practically oriented; not…
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3D Printing and Amateur Radio go hand in hand. So so many things you can print and have functional within your shack. We’ve hear comments such as “what will I use a 3d printer for?”, “It’s not amateur radio related!” Need a new microphone bracket? Print one! A dipole centre? Print one! A stand for…
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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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Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – May 14, 2023 The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10am. As always, members and visitors are mostwelcome.Yesterdays antenna day had members doing further work on the tri-band beam. It’s going to take just a little more to get it tweaked just right, and open…
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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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Whoo! It ain’t no drag…. Papas got a brand new ba…SIGN! It’s pretty, it’s shiny, it’s freaking awesome! A MASSIVE shout out to Silverback Kreations for helping us with graphic design and turning a sad sign into a eye catching masterpiece. Justin and team not only re-drew our logo by hand and provided us with…
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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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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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