CTARC Seasons Geetings! - Dec '16

To all our Cape Town Amateur Radio Centre members, friends and families, compliments of the festive season!

Stay safe on the roads...

The oscilloscope image was produced by Redcat on the EEV Blogspot

(URL: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/hello-to-the-eevblog-forum-and-a-little-christmas-season-oscilloscope-image/msg346205/#msg346205).

It is part of a growing new art form - Oscilloscope Art. If you want to see what can be done with an audio source and an oscilloscope, take a peek at the following YouTube videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytnt9l_WKxk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaTuFB5QXHo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqSvkNjWnnQ

CTARC Ragchew December 2016

The December 2016 edition of the Cape Town Amateur Radio Centre's bi-monthly newsletter "Ragchew" has been published. Grateful thanks to Anne for this bumper Xmas edition!

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

Alternatively it can be found on our Newsletters page

CTARC Calendar for 2017

CTARC members and friends can still purchase the CTARC Annual 2017 Calendar for a very reasonable sum, while stocks last. Proceeds of the sales go to CTARC club funds.

Printed in full-colour and laminated, the A3 size calendar features months and dates of the year, with CTARC meetings, events and national public holidays indicated.

The calendar will be on sale at our next club meeting in January 2017.

CTARC December Meeting - 24 Dec '16

If we were going to have a December meeting for the Cape Town Amateur Radio Centre, it would be on the fourth Saturday of the month, which would make it Christmas Eve - 24th December.

But we are not. Our last meeting was the End-of-Year function braai on Saturday 26 November 2016, and our next meeting will be on Saturday 28 January.

So all that remains is to wish all our members a very Happy Christmas for 2016 and all good things for the new year of 2017!

CTARC Photos of November Meeting - 27 Nov '16

Here are photos of the CTARC's End of Year meeting, held at the clubhouse on 26 November 2016:

We had a good turnout at the event. The weather was great and the company better!

Paul /ZS1S set up this magnificent MW rx with a frame aerial.
Solar powered, too! Provided music all afternoon

Tony / ZS1TM set up the braai fires...

Various items were on display for swop or purchase...

...Like this fine legacy VHF rig

Dennis / ZS1AU signs the LWHST certificates quietly, away from the crowds

Hylton / ZS1HPC (left) welcomes some newcomers

The ladies very kindly distributed the hamburgers & liquid refreshments

Rob / ZS1SA displays the 2017 calendar available for purchase

Ettienne / ZS1AX receives the Len Wells trophy (awarded to him
and his XYL Yolanda / ZS1CX) from Dennis / ZS1AU

Ettienne & Dennis in the clubhouse

New friends are made...

...And the proverbial rag is chewed

Testing ZS1S's discone antenna with Peter's RigExpert antenna analyzer

Karl / ZS1KC brought some bits & pieces to the Swop Shop too

The discone's characteristic wide frequency range was discovered

An acrobatic aircraft fly-past enlivened the late afternoon...

These guys had the staying power to make it through to the end!