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RSGB Get on the Air to Care

22nd April 2020 By Mike Davies Leave a Comment

The RSGB is supporting clubs and societies to get on the air during the current COVID situation. Click on the picture above to find out what’s happening and to take part in the activities.

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CARC During COVID

2nd April 2020 By Mike Davies Leave a Comment

Times are certainly strange. I hope that you and yours are all well. Life at KAD towers is slightly strange. My wife works at Crawley Hospital and is leaving home each morning, as usual, I am working from home this week while my kidults (21 and 18) are home and bored.

We’re all getting used to spending much more time indoors and of course, the club is closed for meetings at Hut18.

At CARC, we’ve been experimenting with a few different things to keep the club active and the committee are very busy ensuring the club continues to serve our members.

Below, I’ve added a few of the activities we’ve been running both online, on the air and a mixture of the two.

CARC Talks Online

Stewart, G3YSX has used his experience of working from home to organise series of WebEx talks and discussions for club members online. We are sending invitations for these by email to all members. Click on the link just before the advertised time and if haven’t already done so you can choose to install the WebEx application or continue using your internet browser. I would recommend installing the application as it gives a consistent experience and access to some of the advanced features such as text chat, multimedia and voting. You don’t need a WebEx account just add your name when joining the talks as a guest.

WebEx supports both voice and video (if you have a webcam). I use a simple USB computer headset with a boom mic though this isn’t required to join in.

Example WebEx app

The CARC website event calendar will have details of these talks but you will need to use the link in the email to join as we can’t support more than 50 participants and want to keep access available to our members.

CARC On-Air Nets

We currently have two nets organised, one for Sunday morning (10:30BST on 80m 3.720MHz +/- QRM hosted by “Net Controller” Richard G3ZIY and the other on Wednesday evenings (19:30BST) on GB3MH, our local 2m FM repeater hosted by “Net Controller” Phil M0TZZ. Join us for a natter.

GB3MH Site at Turners Hill

CARC Whats App Group

We have created an online WhatsApp Group for members. You should have received an invitation to this by individual email. At the time of writing, we have 24 members online in the group. WhatsApp is a messaging platform primarily for smartphone use but there is also very good web browser connectivity to use from a home PC or laptop. You’ll need to supply a mobile number when signing up to WhatsApp and this appears to te group as part of your identity so if you’d rather keep your mobile number private, this isn’t for you.

CARC Web SDR

To help members who don’t have access to an 80m radio we’ve added an Airspy HF+ receiver located at Hut18, connected to the 80m dipole to the Spyserver network. This means that members can access and tune the radio from home using the free SDR Sharp software.

CARC 80m SDR

Download the free software here, install and configure to connect to the CARC receiver.

Configuration is simple. Open the SDRSharp program on your computer and follow the steps in the pictures below:

Run SDR Sharp and follow the two steps above.
Find the CARC SDR using the two steps shown above.
Click as shown to connect to the receiver.

I’ve set a limit of ten connected users at any one time. The first one to connect can tune the radio, others will be able to listen to whatever is tuned. Give it a try.

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    GB70E Special Event Station

    12th May 2022 By Mike Davies Leave a Comment

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    8th May 2022 By Mike Davies Leave a Comment

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    25th April 2022 By Mike Davies Leave a Comment

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    Clubhouse Re opened

    30th January 2022 By Phil Moore Leave a Comment

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    CARC Resume Meetings at Hut18

    15th September 2021 By Mike Davies Leave a Comment

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