Monthly General Meeting
2024-01-24 19:30 - 21:30 (Australia/Sydney) | 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.

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.

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.

(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.

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

Foundation Licence Course
2024-03-16 08:00 - 2024-03-17 17:00, 2024-05-18 08:00 - 2024-05-19 17:00, 2024-07-20 08:00 - 2024-07-21 17:00, 2024-09-14 08:00 - 2024-09-15 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/

Tech Night / Open Shack
2024-03-20 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-04-17 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-05-15 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-06-19 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-07-17 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-08-21 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-09-18 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-10-16 19:30 - 21:00 | 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.

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 | 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.

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.

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.

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 - – 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.

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
2024-09-25 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.
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.

Brookvale Horse Endurance Ride
2024-10-05 12:00 - 2024-10-06 19:00 | ACT
The Brookvale Horse Endurance event is currently scheduled for the 5th and 6th of October 2024. This years event is being held in the forests and private property to the North of Uriarra (off to the West of Mountain Creek Road) with horses and their riders completing rides of up to 80km in length. The primary WICEN participation is on the Sunday (6th October) with some setup activity occurring on the Saturday. This is a low key activity that allows you to get out into the bush in parts of our region that are not normally accessible to the average person and has proven to be a favourite activity for WICEN participants.

Monthly General Meeting
2024-10-23 08:00 - 17:00 | 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. 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.

Foundation Qualification Course
2024-11-09 08:00 - 2024-11-10 17:00 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
