CRARC

Monthly General Meeting
2022-11-23 19:30 - 21:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
The usual EOY function will not occur this year, but has been replaced with a presentation by Bob VK1ERF covering Node-Red – an approach to shack automation.

Monthly General Meeting
2023-01-25 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-03-22 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-06-28 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-07-26 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-08-23 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-09-27 19:30 - 21:00
On the 4th Wednesday of each month, CRARC hold a General Meeting for members and visitors.
The main part of the meeting will be a presentation on a topic of interest and it’s also an opportunity for local Amateurs to get to know each other.

Annual General Meeting
2023-02-22 19:30 - 21:00
CRARC Annual General Meeting for 2023.

Foundation Licence Course
2023-03-11 08:00 - 2023-03-12 17:00
Information on our courses can be found on https://www.crarc.org.au/education/

Monthly General Meeting
2023-04-26 19:30 - 21:00
On the 4th Wednesday of each month, CRARC holds a General Meeting for members and visitors.

The April meeting will be an opportunity for members to show off antennas to others.
Whilst we imagine that most antennas displayed on the night would be of the home brew variety, if you have any weird, unusual or just really useful antennas that you think others would be interested in seeing, please consider bringing them along and let other members see what is available to either make or purchase.
Obviously space is not unlimited, so please no full size 3 element 80m yagis, but please have a think about what antennas you have that others may be interested in and if sufficiently portable bring them along and be prepared to show them off and discuss the reasons you use it.
As a follow on to this meeting, we are intending to hold a number of antenna construction nights over the coming months general meetings. At these meetings, we intend supporting antenna construction sessions for relatively simple antennas that are nonetheless very handy to have in your arsenal of antennas. These sessions will include the “flowerpot” 2m vertical 1/2 wave Coaxial Dipole (either with a radome or as a rollup construct), portable multiband “linked dipoles” and small portable 2m or 70cm yagis. If there is sufficient interest, further antenna construction projects may be adopted and run over additional general meetings or tech nights. Further information to be provided once details have been worked out.

Monthly General Meeting
2023-05-24 19:30 - 21:00
On the 4th Wednesday of each month, CRARC hold a General Meeting for members and visitors.

The May meeting is planned to provide an opportunity to construct an antenna – at this stage we anticipate it will be the “flowerpot” 2m vertical 1/2 wave Coaxial Dipole (either with a radome or as a rollup construct).
CRARC will supply cable, connectors and any other materials for the construction of ‘flower pot’ 2m antennas for those who pre-register for the night (further information to follow including details on registration). There will be a nominal charge (to be determined) to cover this cost of materials and we will ask attendees to RSVP nearer the date so we can plan accordingly. Some specialised tools such as crimp tools and hot air guns will also be available for use on the night, but basic tools (side cutters etc) should be brought along by attendees. Test equipment such as a VSWR meter or network analyser will also be available for use at the construction nights to check the new builds.

Monthly General Meeting
2023-10-25 19:30 - 21:00
On the 4th Wednesday of each month, CRARC hold a General Meeting for members and visitors.

The meeting will be an informal discussion and interactive display on some of the equipment used for WICEN activities. If you have any queries on what is needed or helpful in participating in WICEN activities, this is a good opportunity to ask those questions.

Monthly General Meeting
2023-11-22 19:30 - 21:00
After a prolonged absence, the CRARC end of year / Christmas function is back again and this year’s function will be held at the club rooms on Wednesday 22 November with doors opening at 7:30 for an 8pm start.
A BBQ dinner and refreshments will be provided by the club – helpers to prepare and assist would be very much welcomed – for those wanting to do so, please email the committee on committee@crarc.org.au and advise of your availability.
QSL Cards – Mike VK1OO is planning to mail off the outwards QSL cards over the Christmas break. Cub members wanting to get their cards included in this mailout can bring them to the meeting and pass to Mike.
As a reminder, we will also be raffling off three of the Retevis RT3S 2/70 DMR/Analogue handheld radio packages (for details please see VK1News email of 27 Sep) at the end of the year function, so yet another great reason to attend on the night. Hope to see everyone there.

Monthly General Meeting
2024-01-24 19:30 - 21:30
On the 4th Wednesday of each month, CRARC hold a General Meeting for members and visitors. Doors opening at 7:30 for an 8pm kickoff.

This meeting will be an opportunity to catch up with other members with a trash and treasure session. Please note that if you bring items that are not sold or given to other people, DO NOT leave the items at the club rooms – take them home with you, it is not an opportunity to just dump items you no longer want. We have a number of goodies to clear out of the storeroom and some items courtesy of ACTEWAGL which will be available to members. See you all there.

(Annual) Monthly General Meeting
2024-02-28 19:30 - 21:00
On the 4th Wednesday of each month, CRARC hold a General Meeting for members and visitors.
This months meeting will be the Annual General Meeting – doors opening at 7:30 for an 8pm kickoff.

Monthly General Meeting
2024-03-27 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-05-22 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-06-26 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-07-24 20:00 - 21:30, 2025-03-26 20:00 - 21:30, 2025-04-23 20:00 - 21:30
On the 4th Wednesday of each month, CRARC hold a General Meeting for members and visitors. Doors open at 7:30pm for an 8pm start.
The main part of the meeting will be a presentation on a topic of interest and it’s also an opportunity for local Amateurs to get to know each other. More details for this meeting will be posted closer to the date.

Monthly General Meeting
2024-05-01 20:00 - 21:30
On the 4th Wednesday of each month, CRARC hold a General Meeting for members and visitors. Doors open at 7:30pm for an 8pm start.
The main part of the meeting will be a presentation on a topic of interest and it’s also an opportunity for local Amateurs to get to know each other. More details for this meeting will be posted closer to the date.
NOTE: This meeting has been moved from the 24th April to the 1st May to avoid ANZAC Day.

Monthly General Meeting - – The beginning of 50 years of home computing
2024-08-28 20:00 - 21:30
On the 4th Wednesday of each month, CRARC hold a General Meeting for members and visitors. Doors open at 7:30pm for an 8pm start
CRARC Presentation August 2024 – The beginning of 50 years of home computing
Dale Hughes VK1DSH
In August 1974 Electronics Australia magazine published the first in a series of articles describing a computer that could be constructed at home. It was the first computer kit in an Australia and only missed being the first in the world by a couple of weeks. The computer was designed by Jamieson Rowe and was called EDUC-8. It was an 8-bit machine built using TTL logic chips alone i.e. no microprocessor, and general design of EDUC-8 was similar to the DEC PDP-8 minicomputers of the era. Surprisingly there is active group of people building recreations of the original design and a kit of parts is available.
The presentation will describe the reasons Jim Rowe designed and published the machine, the technical details of the machine, aspects of programing the machine, its construction and demonstrate a working EDUC-8.

Monthly General Meeting
2024-09-25 20:00 - 21:30
On the 4th Wednesday of each month, CRARC hold a General Meeting for members and visitors. Doors open at 7:30pm for an 8pm start.
Comtek Radio, a new VK online company run by VK6SJ and VK1KAZ will be providing a presentation at the September meeting on the Remote Radio Operations including the FlexRadio range of products. The Flex range of equipment is being marketed for easy incorporation into remote setups as well as for normal home use. Comtek Radio’s presentation outlines the FlexRadio range of equipment and provides a demonstration of multi operator, multi transmitter remote station using FlexRadio products. We will be show casing our demonstration system in Perth on the night via a Teams session.

Monthly General Meeting
2024-10-23 08:00 - 17:00
On the 4th Wednesday of each month, CRARC hold a General Meeting for members and visitors. Doors open at 7:30pm for an 8pm start.
This months meeting will be held Wednesday 23rd October 2024 (yes, this week) in the club rooms with a presentation on Ionosondes being provided by Glen VK1XX. Glen has significant experience and expertise in this field having been heavily involved in a recent upgrade to a significant ionosonde system and will be able to answer probably any questions about the systems in use.
As it is getting a little warmer now, we hope to see a decent number of people attending what will no doubt be a very interesting topic.

Monthly General Meeting
2024-11-27 20:00 - 21:30
The November meeting is our last scheduled monthly general meeting for the year and as usual we are holding an end of year function to end out the year. Note the earlier commencement time of 7:00 pm.
The function will be the usual BBQ style dinner – they do however not run themselves and require a reasonable amount of effort to put together, so offers of assistance would be gladly received by your hard working committee – if you are able to assist, please email the committee.
For those who wish to offload some of the junk (umm, I mean the fine pieces of gear you wish to on-sell), please feel free to bring it along and offer it up to your club mates. We will have a small number of interesting items available for club members as we attempt to de-clutter the storeroom.

Tech Night / Open Shack
2025-01-15 19:30 - 21:30
Just a reminder that Wednesday 15th of January 2025 is our first Technight for the year and as normal the doors at Mt Mugga Scout Hall will be open at 1930hrs. Tea, Coffee and Biscuits will be available.
This weeks discussion theme will be Digital Communications such as Echolink, Allstar, DMR, DStar, IRLP etc. Many of us have heard about them and some of us use them but I am sure that most of us wouldn’t have a clue as to the services they provide.
So, if you are interested in learning more about them or if you can teach the rest of us, please come along for some practical sessions and discussions. We hope to gather enough information and knowledge to give a Presentation on the subject the following week at the General Meeting.

Monthly General Meeting
2025-01-22 20:00 - 21:30
On the 4th Wednesday of each month, CRARC hold a General Meeting for members and visitors. Doors open at 7:30pm for an 8pm start.
This meeting is a planning session that we have dubbed the “CRARC 2025” night where we ask members what they would like to see for the rest of the year and more importantly seek support from members to provide or assist in those presentations. Come along have a coffee or tea and chat with your fellow members whilst we plan what will be happening this year.

(Annual) Monthly General Meeting
2025-02-26 20:00 - 21:30
On the 4th Wednesday of each month, CRARC hold a General Meeting for members and visitors. Doors open at 7:30pm for an 8pm start.
This months meeting will be the Annual General Meeting – doors opening at 7:30 for an 8pm kickoff.

Monthly General Meeting
2025-05-28 18:30 - 21:00
On the 4th Wednesday of each month, CRARC hold a General Meeting for members and visitors. We are starting a trial of an earlier start so that members can get home earlier and not be on the road heading home late at night. Doors open at 6:30pm for a start shortly thereafter.
This months topic will be a presentation by Bob VK1ED on Linux:
With the current Windows 10 End of Life, there are going to be a number of workstations / laptops that will be replaced. Yet, whilst this hardware struggled to keep up with a ridiculously bloated Windows, it runs extremely well under Linux. Amateurs are well known for reusing / repurposing equipment and probably more so with the End of Windows 10.

Has the Linux Desktop improved to be mainstream?
Discussion on which is the best Linux distribution for Ham Radio Apps
Whether to use a Prepared Distribution already packaged with useful apps or install the apps separately on your selected Distribution
Why is strength in numbers important?
What are the advantages for using Linux?
What is good easy to use Distro?
Show and tell of Demonstration of Linux Laptop
Are there any logging applications that are good for Linux
What backup options are available, especially if I keep my logs on there.?
