CRARC

Tech Night / Open Shack
2024-09-18 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-08-21 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-07-17 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-06-19 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-05-15 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-04-17 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-03-20 19:30 - 21:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
At this stage tech nights are intended to be held once a month (every third Wednesday of the month) with the potential to add the first Wednesday of the month if there is sufficient demand and capacity to support an additional night.
Tech Night is about members coming together informally to discuss subjects and projects relevant to AR and assist members in practical advice and assistance with technical issues that they may have. During the evening the Radio Room will be operational for all members to utilise.

Foundation Licence Course
2024-09-14 08:00 - 2024-09-15 17:00, 2024-07-20 08:00 - 2024-07-21 17:00, 2024-05-18 08:00 - 2024-05-19 17:00, 2024-03-16 08:00 - 2024-03-17 17:00 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
Information on our courses can be found on https://www.crarc.org.au/education/

BMSC “Horizon Apartments Narooma Forest Rally”
2024-08-30 10:00 - 2024-08-31 19:00 | ACT
BMSC “Horizon Apartments Narooma Forest Rally” – run in the forests around Narooma, Equipment loan and possibly some people assisting. POC VK1PL

Monthly General Meeting - – The beginning of 50 years of home computing
2024-08-28 20:00 - 21:30 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
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
2024-07-24 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-06-26 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-05-22 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-03-27 20:00 - 21:30 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
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.

Bega Valley Rally
2024-06-08 07:00 - 2024-06-09 19:00 | ACT
Bega Valley Rally – assisting South Coast amateurs with communications support to the Bega Valley Rally. Primarily equipment only support, but generally 2-3 WICEN ACT members will also head down to support the event – POC VK1PL

Monthly General Meeting
2024-05-01 20:00 - 21:30 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
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.

National Capital Rally
2024-04-05 08:00 - 2024-04-07 20:00 | ACT
The National Capital Rally for 2024 will be held in the forests around the ACT. This is the largest event that WICEN ACT supports and needs a large number of WICEN volunteers to provide the necessary assistance. The rally runs on the weekend of 5-7 April, but there will also be significant assistance needed in the weeks prior to setup a number of portable repeaters and other equipment as well as the week following to uninstall it all.

Mini Eden rally
2024-03-09 08:00 - 2024-03-10 17:00 | ACT
Assisting South Coast amateurs with communications support to the Rally. Primarily equipment only support, but generally 2-3 WICEN ACT members will also head down to support the event – POC VK1PL

(Annual) Monthly General Meeting
2024-02-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
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.

Memory Walk - Canberra
2024-02-25 06:00 - 13:30 | ACT
This is a WICEN VK2 covered event and at this stage no there is no requirement for VK1 WICEN participation.

Tech Night / Open Shack
2024-02-21 19:30 - 21:00 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
Tech Night is about members coming together informally to discuss subjects and projects relevant to AR and assist members in practical advice and assistance with technical issues that they may have. During the evening the Radio Room will be operational for all members to utilise.

Monthly General Meeting
2024-01-24 19:30 - 21:30 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
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.

Monthly General Meeting
2023-11-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
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.

WICEN - Suburu Canberra Rally Of Canberra
2023-11-17 - 2023-11-19 | ACT
The Suburu Canberra Rally Of Canberra for 2023 will be held in the forests around the ACT. This is the largest event that WICEN ACT supports and needs a large number of WICEN volunteers to provide the necessary assistance. The rally runs on the weekend of 17-19 November, but there will also be significant assistance needed in the weeks prior to setup a number of portable repeaters and other equipment as well as the week following to uninstall it all.

Tech Night / Open Shack
2023-11-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
Tech nights are back! At this stage tech nights are intended to be held once a month (every third Wednesday of the month) with the potential to add the first Wednesday of the month if there is sufficient demand and capacity to support an additional night.
The main aim of the meeting is to provide a platform for Members to gather and discuss technical matters of interest. There will be no presentation and it will be conducted quite informally to encourage participation of all attendees. Suggestions for specific topics are welcomed.

Tuggeranong Festival "SouthFest"
2023-11-11 10:00 - 16:00 | Tuggeranong Laneways, Anketell St, Greenway, ACT, Australia
CRARC are operating a stall at the Tuggeranong festival on the 11th November. We will be displaying a WICEN trailer and a number of transceivers operating on portable antennas.
Volunteers needed to help with the event.

Foundation Licence Course
2023-11-11 08:00 - 2023-11-12 17:00 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
This course has been brought forward by a week to avoid a clash with National Capital Motor Rally event for which we provide volunteer radio operators for the safety radio network.
If the change prevents you from attending please contact us via our website “get your Licence” web pageEducation Officer contact.
Information on our courses can be found on https://www.crarc.org.au/education/
