CTARC Request for Assistance - 24 May '18

There is an urgent request for assistance from Klaus / ZS1QO for fellow radio hams and club members to help him finish dismantling his radio station in Rugby in Cape Town. Klaus and his family are set to depart the QTH quite soon, and his state of health prevents him from doing this big job on his own. While his masts are now dismantled and antennas are down, there is still work to be done.

He also still has quite a large selection of amateur radio rigs, antennas and accessories for sale too. Here is an extracted list of items that appeared recently in the Highway Amateur Radio Club swops page:

Update offer to sale:

• Military Handset, new, for B25 and similar MIL Radios complete with MIL-Plug,

• Synthesized Digital Generator FARNELL DSG-1 0,0001 Hz to 99,99 kHz - very rare, among else used for CTCSS calibration-, 

• Audio Signal Generator HP204C, 

• Calculating Frequency Counter 0.1 Hz to 2.5 GHz, made in Germany by AUERSBERG, 

• Oscilloscope Siglent SDS 1102CML dual-beam storage 100 MHz, 

• D-Link Wireless N150 ADSL2plus Modem Router, 

• Tono 5000E CW / RTTY / AMTOR Encoder/Decoder including keyboard, 

• 12-Pin power cables for Yaesu FT-101 Series and Kenwood, 

• VHF Mobile Antennas with magnetic base,

• Good Quality Coax Cable RG58 - 50m Reel, 

• DC twin-core power cable red/black, 

• Special Radio Power Plugs, 

• Military Plugs - many different types, 

• Commercial Radio Direction Finder 100 MHz to 180 MHz, 

• SWR Meter 1.8 MHz to 570 MHz, ranges 5W 20W 200W, 

• HF Transceiver ICOM IC-751A (including non-volatile EPROM). 

• Transformer Power Supply 220 V / 13.8 V 30 A cont. 32 A peak, 

• Transformer Power Supply 220 V / 13.6 V 3.5 A, 

• Automatic Antenna Tuner Daiwa CN2002 with cross needle meter,
  Range 20 W / 200 W / 2000 W PEP, 12 V operated, 

• Portable 2m Transceiver TR-2300 with built-in CTCSS board and ext. Amplifier VB-2300, 

• 4 x High Quality German Loudspeakers - 4 Ohms 25W, 

• Kenwood Hand Microphone MC35S 50 kiloOhm with 4-pin connector, 

• Other dynamic microphones with 4-pin and 8-pin connectors, 

• VHF 2m Mobile Antennas with magnetic base, 

• Big box of coax plugs and sockets - PL259, N-Type, Barrels, BNC, adapters PL/BNC, N/PL, N/BNC, PL/SMA and more.
  

PLEASE VISIT ME OR CALL FOR MORE INFORMATION AND SEND E_MAIL FOR DETAILS.

Kind regards
Klaus ZS1QO

Klaus requests you contact him by direct mobile phone call, please NOT by WhatsUp nor by SMS. You can do so on: [ zero 8  three = 6 too six = six  9  six  4 ].
He may also be e-mailed at comlab at global dot co dot za

CTARC Forthcoming Sale of Amateur Radio Equipment - 5 May '18

We have been informed by Klaus /ZS1QO that he and family are relocating offshore and consequently is to hold a sale of all his radio gear at his QTH in Cape Town's north-western suburbs.

The sale takes place on Saturday 5 May, starting at 10h00 and all radio hams and interested parties are welcome to attend. Everything must go!

Those who know Klaus will know his high standards in acquiring radio gear of high quality, so this will be an event not to miss.

All gear to be purchased must be inspected on the premises and removed once paid for.
No items can be sent via post or courier.

The list of equipment on sale is extensive, and includes

• HF an VHF Rigs
• Linear amplifiers
• Test meters and equipment
• Components
• Coax cables
• Antenna wire
• Connectors
• Antennas
• Masts
• Hardware

More specifically, the quality items for sale include...

• Transistor Linear Amplifier Trans World Electronics TWE500A
  500W CW / 800W PEP in mint condition, for230 Vac,
  b/I Amp Meter 50A R 8500.00
   
• Automatic Antenna Tuner Daiwa CNA2002
  2KW PeP R 4600.00
   
• Transceiver Icom IC-751A with non-volatile RAM
  100% operational R 4500.00

• 4-Step Coax Antenna Switch 1KW PEP  R 600.00
   
• Receiver HF All Mode: Hagenuk RX1001M b/I pre-selector
  One of the best receivers ever built  R 5000.00

All parts can be seen and tested at his place by appointment. There is an updated list [here].

Klaus requests you contact him, during reasonable hours, by direct mobile phone call, NOT by WhatsUp nor by SMS. You can do so on: [ zero 8  three = 6 too six = six  9  six  4 ].

He may also be e-mailed at comlab at global dot co dot za

CTARC New Swops Service at Club Meetings - 18 Oct '16

Thanks to a suggestion from one of our members, the club is introducing a regular "Bring and Buy" sale at every monthly meeting held at our clubhouse.

Please feel free to bring a few surplus (amateur radio related) goods and place them on the side table together with your call sign, price and (if you wish) contact details. We are sure your equipment will generate great interest and will soon find a new home.

At the end of the meeting, please make sure you (or the new purchaser) remove the equipment, and take it home. Otherwise we will soon be unable to fit into our clubhouse!

Also please note that said transactions are done entirely at your own risk. Neither the Cape Town Amateur Radio Centre nor its committee can be held responsible for the safekeeping of said equipment. Nor will the committee enter into any negotiations or disputes between buyer and seller. The service is operated in good faith to allow radio amateurs to exchange or trade their surplus amateur radio equipment with each other.

Of course, we will continue to run our Swop Shop slot during our regular Sunday morning bulletins, and members are welcome to continue submitting radio-related equipment swops to appear in our bi-monthly newsletter, Ragchew. And we will also continue to hold our annual Mega-Fleamarket in March each year.

A report-back on the Swops aspect of our meeting of 22 October 2016 is [here].

CTARC Where Are Our Filters??? - 22 Sep '15

Since we assembled our Lighthouse Weekend Field Station, four bandpass filter boxes that we used in the previous (2014) event have gone AWOL. They were all kept in a clear plastic bag in our ham shack, and we are sure they were returned to the clubhouse after the previous event.

If anyone can help shed light on the location or fate of these needed bits of equipment, we would be most grateful. They are small rectangular silver boxes, each about 75 x75 x 50 mm in size and with two SO-239 coax sockets on them.

Please contact the secretary [here] if you can help.

UPDATE: We found our filters at last!