50  YEARS  AGO

                The Central Coast Amateur Radio Club will be FIFTY Years old on Thursday, 18^th October, 2007.

The name has changed a few times.  At the inaugural meeting in 1957, it was called the
‘Central Coast Amateur Radio Club’, in its early days it was also known as the ‘Gosford Radio Club’ and
the ‘Central Coast Branch of the Wireless Institute of Australia’.  On the 3^rd March 1972, it reverted back
to the ‘Central Coast Amateur Radio Club’, and later, on the 20^th April 1988 ‘Central Coast Amateur Radio Club Incorporated’
as we know it today.

                The Club’s beginnings were recorded in RADIO TELEVISION & HOBBIES, December 1957.

                The Central Coast Radio Club was founded at Gosford, NSW, on Friday October 18^th (1957) and
37 persons (34 listed here) attended the opening meeting. 

                Local Member of Parliament, Mr. Roger Dean, was elected as patron.  President of the new Club was well known amateur,
Major Collett VK2RU, and the secretary was Reg Brook, W.I.A. associate of disposals distribution fame.
                 Four members of the N.S.W. W.I.A. council attended, including State President
Pierce Healy VK2APQ.

                Attendance at the INAUGURAL MEETING of the C.C.A.R.C.
held on 18^th October, 1957, at Gosford School of Arts Hall, Mann Street, Gosford.

References:              Rex Black VK2YA for providing Inaugural meeting list.

                                Radio Television & Hobbies, December 1957

                                Various issues of the CCARC’s ‘News Sheet’, ’News Letter‘ and ‘Smoke Signals’

Date: October 2007,

 (de Leigh VK2KAL)