CTARC Report Back on 23 April Meeting

The April meeting of the Cape Town Amateur Radio Centre included the video, by kind courtesy of Paul / ZS1S, of the K1N Navassa Island DXpedition of February 2015. This was the first such activation of that highly desirable DX location in 20 years.

It was a most interesting video.

Navassa Island is in the Carribean, south of Cuba, west of Haiti and east of Jamaica. It is small (5.4 sq km), flat and uninhabited except for occasional visits by Haitian fishermen. It is surrounded by steep cliffs, making transfer of equipment very difficult. For this reason the team and equipment had to be ferried in and out by helicopter. For various reasons, the nearest practical embarkation point was Jamaica.

A write-up of the DxPedition, which achieved 140000 QSO's via 14 operators, can be read [here].

Photos are [here]

Some videos are [here]

CTARC Forthcoming April Meeting - 23 Apr '16

The April 2016 meeting of the Cape Town Amateur Radio Centre takes place on Saturday, 23 April, at 14h00, at the CTARC  clubhouse in Rondebosch.

Paul /  ZS1S, has kindly made available a DVD on the K1N DXpedition to Navassa Island, which will be screened at the meeting. Thereafter we will have the chance to chat over coffee and biscuits.

See you at the meeting. The weather appears to have cleared ((temporarily) !

Above: The K1N team, who operated from Navassa Island in February 2015.
Photo appeared in the ARRL's magazine QST of October 2015

CTARC Ragchew April 2016

The April 2016 edition of the Cape Town Amateur Radio Centre's bi-monthly newsletter "Ragchew" has been published. Grateful thanks to club secretary Anne for yet another fine edition!

You can download the April Newsletter as a PDF directly from [here].

Alternatively it can be found on our Newsletters Page

 

CTARC Forthcoming Meeting - 23 April '16

The April 2016 CTARC members meeting, (usually held on the fourth Saturday of each month), will be on 23rd April, at 14h00, at the CTARC clubhouse in Rondebosch.

Directions to the CTARC clubhouse are [here].

The subject of this meeting will be announced presently.

Further details will be announced on the Sunday morning CTARC club bulletins transmitted on the 145.750 MHz repeater at 08h30, for listeners in the Cape Town area.

All club members and interested parties are most welcome to attend.

CTARC Committee Meeting - 19 Apr '16

There will be a meeting for members of the CTARC committee, at 19h00 on TUESDAY, 19 April 2016, at the CTARC Clubhouse.

Please take note that this committee meeting for April happens on a TUESDAY instead of the more usual MONDAY. Just this once. Future committee meetings from May 2016 onward will continue thereafter on the Monday evenings preceding the Saturday afternoon CTARC members meetings as per usual.

Please diarise accordingly.

(Just why there should be such a change from a Monday to a Tuesday is a mystery within an enigma within a conundrum within a koeksuster, tumbling endlessly in N-dimensional space-time. Well, to me, at least. I'm sure the CTARC Committee members have perfectly good reasons for doing so. Don't ask me why, though. I'm just a poor automatic robot tasked to print these time-stamped future committee meeting announcements at regular intervals until the end of the Universe as we know it).