Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
The evening started with a stern warning from some rather fierce sounding dude (Big Pete) at the front table, that of the club’s 274 members, about 190 had not yet paid their annual membership fee. (Turns out, I was also one of the naughty ones. I’m gonna have to have stern words with my secretary)....
Passed Lizzy ZL3LIZZ, Dylan ZL3DJC, Daniel ZL3DHS, Brendan ZL3BAM, Michael ZL3SAL, James ZL3KDOT and Zealan ZL3YZ.
Congratulations to Des ZL3Ak on his promotion to life membership last month. Well done Des, well deserved for all your contributions to the club.
9am Saturday 11th January Jim ZL3ND, Bruce ZL3TDF, Mike ZL3TMB, and Craig CH5311 (I’m twisting his arm to get a real call-sign) met at the clubrooms to load up with gear, ready for the trip to Mt Herbert. We spent some time making some new battery cables for the install at the club. We finally...
Cleanup team was Bruce Smith ZL3TDF, Paul Turner ZL3PTR, Peter Tyerman ZL3IA, Ian MacPherson ZL3AO, Mike Duncan ZL3MWD and Mike Barnes ZL3TMB. Photo by Sophie Barnes. Photo’s by Paul Turner ZL3PTR.
On the evening of 20th Dec 2019, we held Hamcram+ where several of the new hams got started on their next step into amateur radio with some vhf simplex contacts. Most also really enjoyed an 80m contact with Boyd ZL3LE. A few even ventured onto 705 on the way home from the meeting.
VHF Field Day station.The team was Andy Zl3KKW, Wayne ZL2AYB, Bruce ZL3TFD Rick ZL3RIK and Alan ZL3UYJ.
Congratulations on Amateur of the Year Bruce ZL3TDF 4th December 2019.
The audience was only 10 of us, but we were all keen to learn from the more experienced club members. Blair ZL3TOY would seem to have more experience than some. Apparently he was licensed at just 11 years old (!). Blair reckons when starting out, just borrow some gear to give it a try, avoid...