Category: News
VHF Activity Hour – 18th April 2019
As part of HamCram+ evening on Thursday 18th April, the branch ran a VHF Activity Hour. Contacting most of the new HamCrammer in the activity hour had the added bonus of a free Easter Egg!The suggested frequencies were CW 144.050 MHz SSB 144.200 MHz Digital 144.400 MHz AM 145250 MHz FM 146.500 MHz Note that...
Hamcram – April 2019
Another roaring success for the latest HamCram event at Christchurch Amateur Radio Club. All candidates passed, one with 100% and quite a few very close to it. Here are the latest batch of Hamcrammers, just before their exam, all looking confident! In no particular order: Andresito ZL3AMB, Bob ZL3SSS, Hamish ZL3HKR, Alastair ZL3GEE, Andrew ZL3AAM,...
Homebrew Meeting – February 2019
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....
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...