NEWS 07.05.2023

Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – May 7, 2023

The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10am. As always, members and visitors are most
welcome.
Last week was our bi-monthly Show & Tell. We had objects on display ranging from insulation and earth
quality testing through to 60 year old slides of Asia, vintage cameras and lenses, bonsai and vintage radio
equipment. There is more detail and photos on the club web page. Thanks to all who participated.
Apart from the normal month to month business, at yesterdays meeting we welcomed two new members.
Welcome to Luke and Michael.
Next Saturday we will be doing further work on the tri-band beam to get it finally tweaked just right, and
open up the possibility of mid-week HF operating nights for members.
At the VK2RAG Somersby repeater site, the D-Star, Rad-Net DMR and 2m Echolink services are fully
functional.
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.