Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
Antennas and things I finally went & got a round tuit & made up a 30/60 trapped dipole which I was able to put up as a near flat top at 6 meters high. The results have been outstanding on both bands with numerous contacts into Europe & Scandinavia on 30metres. Apart from Summits, Lakes...
My lockdown project is a portable VHF/UHF satellite antenna for use with the motor home. The antenna uses plastic conduit for the boom, 8 elements on 70 cm and 5 elements on 2 metres, crossed. It all snaps together using plastic conduit clips and can be assembled and attached to a camera tripod in less...
Congratulations to our eight students who passed the July 2021 Hamcram course and gained their Radio operators certificate of Competency, well done. Not only were they all scoring over 50, there was even a smattering of 100% scores amongst them! Words provided by Kelvin ZL3KB Photo’s provided by Ian ZL3TOA & Kelvin ZL3KB
Photo’s by Ian ZL3TOA Photo’s by Ken Zl3EC ZL3AC 20 ZL3AC 2020 Jock White Field Day – ZL3KBZL3AC 2020 Jock White Field Day – ZL3KBk White Field Day – ZL3KB Another great event, Christchurch Amateur Radio Club supporting the Jock White Field day.Thanks to all that gave a hand erecting the aerials and bringing them...
Another field day under the belt, I think this is my 25th! Our scores look good, and we should be up there with the leaders. Great to see such a good turn out, I counted nine members at one time, plus second harmonics. The field was made available to us by CCC, and we received...
Some say there are three certainties in life; Death, Taxes and Jock White Field Day. February came around yet again and the team cobbled the gear together for the weekend exercise. Due to a SAREX we were one down on the number of AREC vans available, so we chose to have both stations in under...