NEWS 02.07.2023

Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – July 2, 2023

The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10:30am. As always, members and visitors are most welcome.
Members are reminded that renewals are due. Membership forms have been sent out and need to be
completed.
Last week the club held it’s regular Show and Tell. There is a full report, with photographs of the items
brought on the clubs web site. We had items ranging from a Blittzortung lightning detector (try saying that quickly) and an antenna tuning unit for a WW2 era Wireless set No. 19 through to an early Web in a Box unit, an industrial cooking oven controller and a display of large model ships that Glenn built by hand.
Thanks to all who attended.
There are rumours of something brewing in the Central Coast area. It’s not clear exactly what, but it might be a good idea to write down the 5th of May, 2024 in our diaries and keep an ear out for updates.
At the VK2RAG Somersby repeater site, the D-Star, Rad-Net DMR and 2m Echolink services are fully
functional. The 23cm repeater is currently off-air, being replaced.
The club Web SDR at Somersby. Websdr.ccarc.org.au is configured to listen on 6 metres, 2 metres, 70
centimetres and 23 centimetres.
The Morning Tea Net is run on weekdays at 10:00am and the Weekly net on Thursday at 8:00pm.
Both nets are run on on the VK2RAG repeater – 146.725MHz with a 91.5Hz sub-audible tone, and on the
CCARCNSW and HAM Echolink conferences.
The Thursday evening net is also live video-streamed on the club’s facebook page.
You can find out more about the CCARC, our upcoming social events and other details that we can’t tell you about here on the web at ccarc.org.au, by phone on 02 4340 2500, or on social media by searching for “Central Coast Amateur Radio Club”. Remember to give the club a “like” to follow for any updates.

73, from Alan VK2MG
Publicity Officer, Central Coast Amateur Radio Club.

Summary of Nets
VK2RAG 146.725 with 91.5Hz tone and echolink through the CCARCNSW and HAM Conferences