Author: Carl Makin

Canberra Region Amateur Radio Club

CRARC monthly meeting is on this Wednesday night (the 25th) at 6:30pm

A reminder that the club monthly meeting is on this Wednesday night at 6:30pm at the Mt Mugga Scout Hall. The topic this month is “APRS, What it is and…
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Isaacs Ridge DMR, D-Star and IRLP/Echolink network access unavailable.

Due to an issue with our ISP there is currently no internet access at Isaacs Ridge. This means that, although the repeaters themselves are working fine, they can’t connect to…
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Technight

Just a reminder that Technight is upon us again this Wednesday at the Mt Mugga Scout Hall at 1830hrs. The subject for general discussion is Computer Aided Antenna Modelling. So…
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CRARC Merchandise now available

The CRARC Merchandise shop is now available with a wide selection of T-Shirts, Hoodies, Caps, Polos and Sweaters in both male and female styles. https://merch.crarc.org.au/  Each T-Shirt, Hoodie, Polo and…
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Notice of Canberra and Region Amateur Radio Club Annual General Meeting 2024

On the 28th of February the Annual General Meeting of the Canberra Region Amateur Radio Club (CRARC) for 2024 will be held at the CRARC clubrooms, Mt Mugga Scout Hall,…
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False membership emails from HamClubOnline.

In September this year CRARC migrated our membership system from HamClubOnline to TidyHQ.  While HamClubOnline provided a basically functional service there were issues with the service that made it not…
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Isaacs DMR Repeater interference problem. #dmr

Hi Everyone, Since late November or so there has been an interfering signal appearing on the Isaacs DMR repeater and it has been broadcasting this interference to over 50 other…
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ACT D-Star repeater back online

The Isaacs Ridge D-Star repeater, VK1RWN is operational again. It came back sometime Monday morning and seems to be operating normally. Carl, vk1kcm, A CRARC Vice President.

Vk1 D-Star repeater receive has failed.

It looks like the receiver on the Isaacs Ridge D-Star repeater has failed. Probably due to storm yesterday. We’ll be going up there early this week to take a look…
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D-Star and IRLP/Echolink on Isaacs operational again.

A visit to the Isaacs Ridge repeater site today successfully restored both the D-Star repeater gateway and the IRLP/Echolink functions on their respective repeaters. The D-Star repeater itself on 146.6625…
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