The next General Meeting of the Club will be on Saturday 5th October and all are invited, especially visitors. Meetings of the Central Coast Amateur Radio Club are held at the Club rooms in Dandaloo St, Kariong, just past the fire station. Meetings start at 1pm, preceded by the famous sausage sizzle run by master…
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Due to an extended AGM there was no time to appoint the various sub-committee positions; this will be done at the next meeting instead, and the current occupants will continue in their roles in the meantime. We also apologise to Karen VK2AKB and Glenn VK2GEM for neglecting to mention that they were made Life Members…
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The WIA DX Awards Program (Link) is pleased to announce a new award, the “Islands of Australia Award”, will be available shortly. This award recognises contacts with Amateur Radio stations on any of the 56 qualifying Islands of Australia. The WIA Islands Of Australia Award is an award which compliments the RSGB/IOTA Ltd Program. The…
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On September 1st an ECP “European Common Proposals” paper has been pushed onto the CEPT website. This document is the outcome of the work that was done during the CEPT Ankara meeting and will be discussed in the World Radio Conference 2019 in Egypt. The ECP paper (download link) still looks like an advanced draft.…
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First, a correction to last week’s Club News; it was stated that the Annual General Meeting will be on the 3rd August, following the usual General Meeting. Although true at the time of writing it is now set down for the 17th August, and your Publicity Officer apologises for any confusion caused in the ranks.…
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Members are reminded that the Annual General Meeting will be on 17th August, following the usual General Meeting; at the time of writing there is no lecture set for the 20th July, so volunteers are welcome. All meetings of the Central Coast Amateur Radio Club are held at the Club rooms in Dandaloo St, Kariong,…
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Users of VK2RAG are probably wondering why it stopped a few days ago; the simple story is that during summer the site is solar-powered, but due to inclement weather it ran out of sunlight and hence battery power. Normal service was restored as soon as humanly possible, and the Club thanks its hard-working Repeater team.…
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The recent Club business meeting was followed by an analysis of the Field Day, and we’ll report upon the results soon. There were some good points raised by attendees, but please be aware that it takes an enormous amount of effort to bring this annual event to you; as always, volunteers to help run this…
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The Wyong Field Day organized by the Central Coast Amateur Radio Club is now over and the dust has settled; yesterday’s Club business meeting was a dissection of the event, and we hope to report the results next week. We can report that the raffle winners were: 1st prize: Peter VK2APS; second prize: Richard VK2FKRO;…
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