NEWS 27.08.2023
Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – August 27, 2023
The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10:30am. As always, members and visitors are most welcome.
On Friday evening, we linked up VK2RAG to listen to the a group of young people from the Australian Air
League in Salisbury South Australia chat with Warren Hoburg, KB3HTZ aboard the International Space
Station, through Claudio, IK1SLD. The Air League girls, boys, family, leaders, and hams present had a ball!
Timing was excellent. Some young folk were warned that if the astronaut gave wordy answers the time
might run out. But Woody was great. He heard every question clearly, and gave clear and succinct
answers, so all youngsters had a go.
Yesterday the club held our monthly show and tell. More on this next week.
The club will hold its monthly business meeting at the club rooms at 1pm next Saturday. Club members are asked to please consider volunteering on the various non-executive positions and sub-committees.
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
- The Morning Tea Net is held Monday to Friday at 10am.
- The Weekly Net is held on Thursday at 8:00pm