CRARC

Monthly General Meeting
2023-06-28 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-03-22 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-01-25 19:30 - 21:00 (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.

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.

Tech Night / Open Shack
2023-06-21 19:30 - 21:00 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
Fellow Members
Just a reminder that the Club Rooms will be open from 1930hrs on Wednesday Night (21/06) for anyone to pop in and undertake anything “Ham”. If you have any questions or problems you may even find somebody there that can give an answer. If you have a particular request you may care to give us a heads up by email and we will do our best to accommodate you. See you there!
Regards
Graeme VK1IO

Monthly General Meeting
2023-05-24 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.

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.

Foundation Licence Course
2023-05-20 08:00 - 2023-05-21 17:00, 2023-03-11 08:00 - 2023-03-12 17:00, 2023-01-21 08:00 - 2023-01-22 17:00, 2022-11-19 08:00 - 2022-11-20 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"
2023-05-19 06:00 - 2023-05-21 18:00, 2022-09-10 06:00 - 18:00 | ACT
BMSC “Horizon Apartments Narooma Forest Rally” – run in the forests around Narooma, Equipment loan and possibly some people assisting. POC VK1PL

Tech Night / Open Shack
2023-05-17 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.

Monthly General Meeting
2023-04-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
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.

Tech Night / Open Shack
2023-04-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
Tech nights are back! At this stage we will probably hold these activities 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 April 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. It has been suggested that a discussion on DMR Code Plugs and Programming should be the main focus. For those that wish a “Hands On” approach please bring your DMR radios, programming cables and, if possible, your laptop with your specific Code Plug programming software. This topic will no doubt continue over subsequent Tech Nights.
Additional subjects for future nights will be sought and planned for.

Annual General Meeting
2023-02-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
CRARC Annual General Meeting for 2023.

Monthly General Meeting
2022-11-23 19:30 - 21:00 | 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.

Fitz's Challenge bike ride
2022-10-30 06:00 - 20:00 | ACT
Fitz’s Challenge is a bicycle event run over multiple distances up to 255km on the roads of the western part of the ACT from as Far north as Uriarra to almost the the end of the tarmac in the south. WICEN ACT assists with the provision of communications support for administrative and safety purposes, using a variety of communication systems.

Monthly General Meeting
2022-10-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
We are happy to advise that we are resuming in person meetings with this months meeting being a presentation on ACMA’s proposal for class licensing by Dale VK1DSH. Time is 7:30 for 8 and will be at the CRARC clubrooms at the Mount Mugga Scout Group.

LCCC "Monaro Stages Rally"
2022-10-22 06:00 - 18:00 | ACT
LCCC “Monaro Stages Rally” – southern NSW (location TBD). Equipment loan with potential for some personnel. POC VK1PL

Brookvale Horse Endurance Ride (Cancelled)
2022-10-15 12:00 - 2022-10-16 17:00 | ACT
Unfortunately the dates have changed for this event and clash with another activity so we are regretfully unable to support it this year.

Monthly General Meeting
2022-09-28 19:30 - 21:00, 2022-08-24 19:30 - 21:00, 2022-07-27 19:30 - 21:00, 2022-06-22 19:30 - 21:00 | ACT
Given the current high instances of covid in the community and member demographics, this places a significant portion of the members at high risk and as such we are not planning any face to face meetings for the immediate future, however for this meeting we hope to have an online presentation/discussion being held.

Foundation Licence Course
2022-09-17 08:00 - 2022-09-18 17:00 | ACT

NSSCC "Lazer Rally of the Bay" (Batemans Bay)
2022-08-13 06:00 - 18:00 | ACT
Equipment loan, with potential for some people. POC VK1PL

Foundation Licence Course
2022-07-16 08:00 - 2022-07-17 17:00 | ACT
Information on our courses can be found on https://www.crarc.org.au/education/

Register for the July course – https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/crarc-amateur-radio-foundation-licence-course-1617th-july-2022-registration-335675042087?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Bega Valley Rally
2022-06-11 06:00 - 2022-06-12 18:00 | ACT
Bega Valley Rally – assisting South Coast amateurs with communications support to the Bega Valley Rally. Generally 2-3 WICEN ACT members will head down to support the event – POC VK1PL.

Foundation Licence Course
2022-05-14 08:00 - 2022-05-15 17:00 | ACT
Subject to COVID19 restrictions. Bookings open now.

Foundation Licence Course
2022-03-19 00:00 - 2022-03-20 23:59 | Mt Mugga Scout Hall, 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill, ACT, 2603, Australia
