Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
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...
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...
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...
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.
The last two Friday’s have seen a substantial amount of work at the Marley’s Hill site. All the old chain clamps are now long gone on the upper pole. We have replaced the old Diamond X50 antenna with 4 dipoles, run all new feeders to the hut, tweaked the duplexer tuning, labelled all the feeders...
Photos provided by Rick ZL3RIK
June commenced with the NZART Annual Conference in Rotorua. I had a very busy Saturday morning collecting the Rothschild Trophy for the Branch with the most exam passes, then a certificate and Icom handheld for Mathew ZL3COG for the best youth exam mark, and finally the NZART Amateur of Year Trophy on behalf of Kelvin...
On Friday 13th Jan 2017 team of seven people (Rory ZL3HB, Rob ZL3RX, Rod ZL3ROD, Mike Zl3TMB, Morrie ZL3RP, Steve ZL2UCX and myself ZL4FZ) spent a day at Herbert. We met at Diamond Harbour at 0830 and finished around 1630. We have replaced the mounts with a 48mmOD water pipe, reinstated the original whip antenna...