Twelve attendees were privileged to see the substantial amount of “home brew” projects that turned up at Branch05 on the night of Wednesday 27th February 2019. Arthur’s project (ZL3JQ) was created by him some 33 years ago. A double sideband transceiver it puts out about 3 watts max PEP and can do Morse or Voice....
Author: Mike Barnes
Jock White Memorial Field Day Context – February 2019
After such a great run of Christchurch, Canterbury weather, with fine sunny conditions every day for a month and temperatures running in the mid to high 20’s, a spell of cooler weather and some rain arrived here just in time for the weekend of the 23rd and 24th of February. Saturday the group had the...
Boxing Day BBQ – December 2018
As hoped, the clubrooms were open and ready for BBQ-business by 10am boxing day morning. Some months ago the committee agreed to allow a local building firm to use our car park during the day, and these fine-folks donated quite an enormous meaty-pile of goodies, bags of crisps, cheese, and soft drinks for this BBQ...
Amateur of the Year – Graham ZL3GSL – 2018
Congratulations to Graham Lees ZL3GSL for his award, rightly deserved for all his amazing work in staying abreast with the latest technology.
Garage Sale -November 2018
On Saturday 24th, Christchurch Branch 05 held one of their occasional Garage Sales at the Idris Road clubrooms. The day started out, well to be quite honest, the weather was really rubbish, a cold wind blew and the rain was on and off. But by 9am I arrived just in time to get one of...
JOTA – 19th-21st October 2018
Although the Christchurch Amateur Radio Club was not part of the annual JOTA weekend this year in October, Christchurch hams were still active in helping the young scouts to get on the air. Unfortunately our own Echo link repeater didn’t want to take part of the event, but local scouts were still able to taste...
Used Equipment Sale – June 2018
At 9am on 23rd June 2018 saw the doors open to the second combined groups Junque *previously loved” sale at the premises of the club rooms in Fendalton, Christchurch. Since first occupying the spacious club rooms around four years ago, the club has encouraged use of the space by similarly minded groups; to date this...
Silent Key – Andrew White ZL3CC – 23rd March 2018
This is the day Andrew White ZL3CC ex ZL3ADW passed away . His funeral was at the Linwood crematorium Wednesday 28th March 2018 at 10 AM. Amateur radio was a large part of Andrew’s life, especially SOTA, so he was sorely missed by the Ham radio community.