NEWS 16.07.2023

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. The
workshop will cover the basics and be practically oriented; not delving in to theory or teaching you to
program, but giving enough to get started. The workshop will be held on Saturday, July 29 at 10:30am for an 11am start.
Notifications have been emailed out for the club’s Annual General Meeting to be held at the clubrooms at
1pm on August 5. Note that only current financial members are eligible to vote and be nominated for
positions. On that note, members are reminded that renewals are due and membership forms have been sent out and need to be completed. Unfinancial members will be removed from contact lists after July 30.
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.