Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
The 2021 Conference was held in Deco Techo Napier at the East Pier Hotel. The Conference was opened by the Mayor of Napier, Kirstin Wise, who recommended we visit the Faraday Centre in Napier. The Roll Call confirmed there was a quorum with 1361 members represents. Our Branch had 219 votes (16%) – I reckon...
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...
The Christchurch Amateur Radio announce this award to celebrate the club’s centenary. ZL100RSC This Special Event Callsign celebrates the centenary of the Radio Society of Christchurch on 15th February 2021. It was active from 14th January until 13th April 2021. And culminated in the Radio Society of Christchurch (New Zealand) Centenary Award The Christchurch Amateur...
Saturday 20th at 9am – working bee Bruce ZL3TDF had his digger there to remove some soil before some extra gravel is laid in the car park. Plenty of other jobs were also done as well. A huge thank you to Rod ZL3NW, Rick ZL3RIK, Wayne ZL2AYB, Rory ZL3HB, Bruce ZL3TDF and his digger, Ian...
Thanks to the parent helpers, and the freelance mentors Graeme ZL3GSL, Rory ZL3HB and Kelvin ZL3KB.
The Sun shone down gloriously on the… yeah well ok it wasn’t quite dark yet, being being only the day after Autumn Equinox and as Daylight Savings Time was still in force, but ok, it was still the half-light of dusk as 17 folks trickled in the door at Christchurch Amateur Radio Club Clubrooms and...
Congratulations to Rob ZL3RX on gaining life membership.
10 SOTA activators ascended 10 separate summits on Banks Peninsula. on February 1st for the first ever ZL3 SOTA party. This was no mean effort in the organising well in advance by Geoff, ZL3GA & Mark, ZL3AB both of whom have been guest speakers at the general meetings at Christchurch Amateur Radio clubrooms. We all...
The room was electric with excitement (well almost !) after the conclusion of the business portion of February’s Branch 05 monthly meeting. Several club members had been like Busy Bees over the Christmas New Year period and constructed Home Brew antennas. The idea was something simple (preferably mountable as a vertical) which would work on...