News 1.10.2023

Central Coast Amateur Radio Club News – October 1, 2023

The club rooms at Kariong are open on Saturdays from 10:30am. As always, members and visitors are most welcome.

Yesterday the club held a lecture on Automatic Link Establishment along with a general show and tell.

Next Saturday, October 7, at 9am the club will be holding examinations for a number of folk sitting various grades of license. We wish those sitting all the very best. Later in the day will be the monthly general meeting at 1pm. Details will be sent through email this week to members.

At the VK2RAG Somersby repeater site, the D-Star, Rad-Net DMR and 2m Echolink services are fully functional. The 23cm repeater is back on air and is now linked with the 6m repeater.

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