Author: Carl Makin

  The CRARC committee meets on-line on the second Wednesday of the month, to discuss the running of CRARC. This email is an outline of items covered and other topics…
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A reminder there will be a presentation this evening. The topic is an introduction to Vector Network Analysers.     The talk and demonstration will be centred around the nanoVNA.…
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Phil, VK2PL ascended Isaacs Ridge on Saturday, rebooted the DMR mmdvm pi and the repeater is back online again. Despite some work recently to make this repeater more resilient, it’s…
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Unfortunately it looks like something bad has happened to the Isaacs Ridge DMR repeater again. The repeater is unresponsive, both on air and via the network. Its unknown at this…
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The VK1 DMR repeater on Isaacs Ridge is back on the hill and operational. Thanks to Phil, VK1PL for reworking the power cabling for the repeater and case for the…
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Isaacs Ridge Repeater Update A visit to the Isaacs Ridge repeater site on Friday revealed the DMR repeater had suffered some sort of hardware failure of the radio side, as…
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The VK DMR network is undergoing some major TG changes over the next couple of months.  This will affect anyone using the CRARC DMR Repeater on Isaacs Ridge. If you…
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Dale, VK1DSH’s presentation on the 26th October about the current status of the ACMA push to transition the Australian Amateur Service to a class licence is now available on the…
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The DMR Repeater on Isaacs Ridge is back up and fully operational. The original and failing DR3000 repeater has been replaced with a Tait TB8100 repeater and MMDVM modem. After the installation…
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CRARC will be holding an online club meeting this month.  The presentation will be on “An overview and practical usage of JS8Call”.  It will be a little different in that…
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