2025 Bigger, Better than ever, Bumper Flea Market

FINAL REMINDER!

Our Annual (now famous),

Bigger, Better than ever, Bumper Flea Market 

for 2025, will take place on

Saturday, 1 March.

 

The format this year will be the same as last year, sellers may arrive from 11:30 am to set up their table or their boot sale. No tables will be supplied by the club please bring your own.

 

Buyers may arrive from 12 noon.

 

Sellers R10 per car/ table, no charge to buyers.

  

Ice cold liquid refreshments will be available with a small donation to the club, and delicious Boerwors rolls will be on sale from around 13:00.

(The club only has a certain amount of chairs so to be on the safe side you may wish to bring your own chairs along too).

We have a great raffle planned for this year. 

1St prize:  A copy of The 21st edition of The AARL Antenna Handbook. 

More great other prizes to be won as well...get your raffle tickets form Paul, ZS1PXK at the function.

 

Come along for a great afternoon under the trees whether you are a buyer or seller it’s a great afternoon to chew the rag….

 

See you there.

CTARC: AGM This Saturday 20 July

 Hi All

Reminder of the CTARC AGM

Date: Saturday, 20^th July 2024.

 

Venue: CTARC Clubhouse, Round Table (Belvedere) Community Centre, off

Laidlaw Road, Claremont. As our Clubhouse can only seat 30 members, arrangements will be made for any overflow outside the clubhouse.

 

Time: 14:00.

 

Complimentary refreshments and snacks will be available after the meeting.

See you all there

A

Bigger, Better than ever, Bumper Flea Market - Saturday, 2 March

 Our Annual (now famous),

Bigger, Better than ever, Bumper Flea Market 

for 2024, will take place on

Saturday, 2 March.

 

 

This year sellers may arrive from 11:45 am to set up their table or their boot sale. No tables will be supplied by the club please bring your own.

 

Buyers may arrive from 12 noon.

 

 

 

Sellers R15 per car/ table, which includes a free raffle ticket, no charge to buyers.

 

 

  

Ice cold liquid refreshments will be available with a small donation to the club, and delicious Boerwors rolls will be on sale from 13:30.

(The club only has a certain amount of chairs so to be on the safe side you may wish to bring your own chairs along too).

 

 

 

Come along for a great afternoon under the trees whether you are a buyer or seller it’s a great afternoon to chew the rag….

 

See you there.

Monthly Meeting: SKA MeerKAt Telescope

This Saturday, 22 April is the CTARC's Monthly meeting.

'A Brief History of the SKA MeerKAT Telescope, 

the challenges, the solutions, and some of the technical details'. 

CTARC member, Wesley New, ZS1NEW, an electrical engineer, will talk to us on this very interesting topic and we are expecting a full clubhouse for this one.

Wesley is currently working at the facility and has been with them 13 years. This presentation will be extremely interesting.

The meeting will start at 14:00 sharp, so come and get a good seat.

REMINDER... CTARC: FoxHunt: Saturday, 25 February

 Hi Everyone.

 

All fox hunters and interested members are invited to attend our club’s foxhunt on Saturday 25th February. Please be at the clubhouse at 11:45 for the briefing by Peter ZS1PC.

 

The fox will be switched on at 12:00.   

 

Time limit to find the fox is 2 hours. We wIll meet back at the club for results afterwards. Coffee and tea will be available courtesy of Tony TK, and Ice cold refreshments at club prices will be available at the club house after the hunt.

 

Could all those interested in attending let me (Peter) know. Further details will be provided once it is confirmed who will attend. We have a foxhunt  Whatsapp group which Peter can add you to.

 

This is an excellent opportunity for anyone new to fox hunting to learn the equipment and the techniques; remember you can pair up and share a car. Or work solo, up to you.

 

Peter

ZS1PC 

Tel: 082 803 9909

Email:   zs1pc73@gmail.com

 

 

What you will need:

• Transport, Hat, walking shoes,

• Radio: Minimum of a VHF Handy Talkie (ideally dual band, VHF and UHF, for the 3rd harmonic).
• Antenna: Minimum HT antenna, but will be easier if you also have a VHF/UHF Yagi (Amsat/Tape measure Yagi is perfect).
• Any other secret radio tracking tech in your arsenal.

 

 

Links below to Ragchew Oct 2018 with lots of Fox Hunt info and to a youtube video for building an antenna

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PYOGtfBPaqtvKIbW1c3t-fbX-E54r1Gi/view

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktoiyKoo36A

Regards,

Anne

CTARC's BIGGER, BETTER THAN EVER FLEA MARKET Saturday, 4 March

 Hi Everyone

 

Our Annual (now famous),

Bigger, Better than ever, Bumper Flea Market 

for 2023, will take place on

Saturday, 4 March.

 

This year we are able to return to the pre-covid format and sellers may arrive from 11:45 am to set up their table or their boot sale. No tables will be supplied by the club please bring your own.

 

Buyers may arrive from 12 noon.

 

 

Sellers R15 per car/ table, which includes a free raffle ticket, no charge to buyers.

 

  

Ice cold liquid refreshments will be available with a small donation to the club, and delicious Boerewors rolls will be on sale from 13:30.

(The club only has a certain amount of chairs so to be on the safe side you may wish to bring your own chairs along too).

 

Come along for a great afternoon under the trees whether you are a buyer or seller it’s a great afternoon to chew the rag….

 

See you there.

 

Anne

October Meeting Report Back: Bouvet Island

At the October Meeting of the CTARC we had a very interesting talk from Adrian, KO8SCA online from the USA about the upcoming 3Y0J Bouvet Island DXpedition.

Adrian spoke to us in real time and this video was projected on the wall inside our club house. Members could also take part from their homes by logging into our Jitsi VOIP system. A question-and-answer opportunity took place at the end of the talk.

Please see pictures of our October meeting and the attachment which you may find interesting, which I am unable to put in Ragchew as it's a 2 page pdf...

You can download the the attachment [here].

Thanks to Paul ZS1S for organising this event.

A

CTARC: FoxHunt: This Saturday, 10 December

All fox hunters and interested members are invited to attend our club’s foxhunt this coming Saturday 10th December. Please be at the clubhouse at 11:45 for the briefing by Peter ZS1PC.

The fox will be switched on at 12:00.

Time limit to find the fox is 2 hours. Meet back at the club for results afterwards. Ice cold refreshments at club prices will be available at the club house after the hunt.

Could all those interested in attending let me (Peter) know. Further details will be provided once it is confirmed who will attend. We have a foxhunt  Whatsapp group which Peter can add you to.

This is an excellent opportunity for anyone new to fox hunting to learn the equipment and the techniques; remember you can pair up and share a car. Or work solo, up to you.

Peter
ZS1PC 
Tel: 082 803 9909
Email: zs1pc73@gmail.com

What you will need:

• Transport, Hat, walking shoes,

• Radio: Minimum of a VHF Handy Talkie (ideally dual band, VHF and UHF, for the 3rd harmonic).

• Antenna: Minimum HT antenna, but will be easier if you also have a VHF/UHF Yagi (Amsat/Tape measure Yagi is perfect).

• Any other secret radio tracking tech in your arsenal.

Links below to Ragchew Oct 2018 with lots of Fox Hunt info and to a YouTube video for building an antenna

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PYOGtfBPaqtvKIbW1c3t-fbX-E54r1Gi/view

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktoiyKoo36A

End of Year Function Invite: Saturday, 26th November

 Hi CTARC Members and family.

 Our last club get together of the year will be held on Saturday, 26 November,

(our Year End Function).

 

 

As usual this is a social event under the shade trees on the lawn in front of the club house.

 

Members are encouraged to bring their partners to this social event and the club will be sponsoring fresh beef burgers with all the trimmings for you.

If beef burgers are not your choice you are more than welcome to bring and braai your own meat on the club’s braai fires. Please bring your chairs, (we only have 30 chairs and these get snapped up fast).

 

Ice cold refreshments will be on sale and the braai fires should be ready by 13:00. The club house will be open from 12:00.

 

There will be a mini flea market / boot sale too, so bring your wares along and get selling from your own table, (please bring your table), or from the boot of your car….

 

 

This is always a very pleasant afternoon with friends and family. It’s always well attended and one of the highlights on the CTARC calendar.

This year is doubly special as Nico van Rensburg, ZS6QT, the president of the SARL, is flying in specially to join us for the afternoon.

Nico wants to come and see how the CTARC, voted best club in 2021, has their wonderful socials and get - togethers and enjoy themselves whilst promoting the wonderful hobby in the Western Cape.