Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
We are pleased to announce preliminary information about the new FTM-500D Series 50W,C4FM/FM, 144/430MHz, Dual Band Digital Mobile Transceiver. The FTM-500D shares the Yaesucore features, utilizing the latest C4FM Digital technology with many new features andimprovements.The new FTM-500D Series will be available in March 2023. Pricing and product information will berevealed with an official announcement soon.Could...
The final major event on the club calendar for 2022 was the boxing day BBQ, this proved very popular with a number of people enjoying some great food! Huge thanks to those that brought along the great food to support the meat. Two trifles, chocolate gateau and more chocolate than could be eaten during the...
The AGM for the club was held on the 7th December 2022, usual reports and some new members on the committee. Position Callsign President ZL3TMB Vice-President ZL3RIK Treasurer ZL3TAO Secretary ZL3TOY AREC – Group Manager ZL3TVP Committee ZL3LL, ZL3OOC,ZL2BCF, ZL3CATH,ZL3LR AREC – Treasurer ZL3ADZ Elected officers of the Club for 2023
Focus Group meeting 5th December 2022 Green Radios On The Air (GROTA) indoor meetingThis month – We take a look at the ZC1 history, and then dive into “ZC1 repair for beginners”. All welcome.
The November fox hunt started from Watermans Place, Ferrymead, with the fox hidden in CharlesworthReserve. A call was made at 13:45 on the weather, it was dry so we proceeded with our normal start time of 14:30. Murphy struck as normal and the rain started just as the hunters moved into Charlesworth Reserve. The fox...
Back in the mists of time, I believe it was July of 2021, Branch 05 facilitated its first 2 metre band, filter building session. Keith Birse ZL4JA (pictured below) had devised a filter, constructed on a tiny PC Board, which could improve the performance of cheap 2 metre handhelds, of Chineseium construction. Although Keith is...
The Branch 05 Clubroom was not quite packed-like-sardines, as a dozen suitably socially Distanced folks attended at the Homebrew show and tell evening. First up was Mark “Dolby” (as I can’t remember his call’). (ZL3JVX ed) Mark’s project as displayed onscreen, was as complicated as we have come to expect from him. But he’s always...
On Sunday there was almost no sun as Christchurch Amateur Radio Club, clubrooms buzzed like a beehive with lots of busy bees buzzing. Turns out that this was the big day of constructing the 2-metre filter projects. Keith Birse ZL4JA has been the driving force behind this project. He demonstrated a prototype filter at the...
Glenn Martin ZL3MTH guest speaker at the branch general meeting. Wednesday 7th April 2021. Jet-packs; who doesn’t want one ? They’ve been depicted in comic books since the 1920’s, and then featured as special effects on science fiction TV shows, like Lost In Space in the 1960’s. By the 1960’s genuine Jetpacks did exist, but...