Keen bunch met at the club at 8:30am to help clear our poles and remains of our antenna to enable the commercial teams to work on their own gear. The photos below show the damage to the poles feeders and antennas. What’s left of our central supply for the mains to the hut New bare...
Author: Mike Barnes
Fire at Marleys Hill repeater site
Last night the fire can be seen approaching the repeater sites at Marleys Hill image a around midnight 14th February. Photos from the fireground 10am by the fire crews, note plaese keep away as it is not safe to go anywhere near this location. From this photo you can see the north pole is no...
Field Day 24th & 25th February
The next Jock White Memorial Field Day contest will be held on Saturday/Sunday 24th & 25th February 2024.Rules can be found here:- https://www.nzart.org.nz/activities/contests/jwfd/
Foxhunt 25th February
Sunday 25th February. Dave ZL3DEM is hiding the fox.Club did the JWFD here for a couple of years 🙂Won’t be there this year 🙁
Modernizing the TR105 & Condor SAR radios a club project.
Those who were at the clubrooms last night would have seen the TR105 and Condor conversion to an 80/40m QRP VFO rig by Andrew ZL2PD This builds on the sugar cube VFO project to enable the TR105 (5W PEP HF SSB) and the later Condor (1W HF QRP SSB) a two channel crystal controlled transceiver designed...
Auction January 23rd 2024
Auction bids accepted from members of Christchurch Amateur Radio Club and kindred clubsAbsentee bids to auction@chchhamradio.org.nz by 5pm on Auction Day
Club Boxing Day BBQ
The Boxing day BBQ with be held at the clubrooms on the 26th December 2023 from midday onwards.Quality Peter Timbs meat will be supplied by the club.Please bring a salad or desert to share with others Mike ZL3TMB will burn the meat hopefully to perfection again this year.
Last auction for the year on Tuesday 19th December 2023
Auction bids accepted from members of Christchurch Amateur Radio Club and kindred clubsAbsentee bids to auction@chchhamradio.org.nz by 6pm on Auction Day