Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
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...
This year’s field day was spread across January 27th and 28th. Many thanks for all the participants who came along to help at JWMFD. Especially those who were new to HF operating but who were willing to give it a go. All in all a good event this year and thoroughly enjoyable. The operators were...
On 24th January, the club held a combined BBQ and antenna measuring day at Agricultural park. In an adjacent park, the ‘Green radio boy’ ZL3KB had setup a reference ¼ wave vertical on 40m to measure the radiated power from his WW2 man packs. From Rob ZL2IW: We were advised to keep clear of the...
Saturday, 12th December 2020 and time for a diversion from the worries of the world at the branch 05 clubrooms. After two evenings, and one morning of load-in of some of Christchurch’s finest Junque, the doors finally opened at 9am, with a flood of ‘customers’. Overall, around a hundred buyers turned up during the morning...