VHF Field Day Contest – December 2020

After a couple of months planning six hearty souls headed up to the woolshed in Greenwood Reserve, Mt Pleasant for the club’s annual field day contest. We’d decided to cover the same bands as last year namely 6M, 2M & 70cm with the possibility of 23cm added on the Sunday. One of the team pointed...

VNA Workshop – November 2020

The evening started out with a PowerPoint presentation by Mark (ZL3JVX). Those present then broke into three smaller groups, led by Alan (ZL3UYJ) /Blair (ZL3TOY) in the main hall with a 6 metre Yagi, Richard (ZL4FZ) in the workshop, and Kelvin (ZL3KB) in the Radio Shack. The audience could rotate at intervals so as to...

Satanic Cult Meeting – November 2020

Background : This was just a bar-be-que held by club members as a dig at the Christchurch Fellowship meetings started by the then club secretary. It was felt that the line had been crossed, when the club committee allowed the club secretary to start the group by using club mailing list. Amateur Radio – no...

Pairs Contest – October 2020

This new event is the brainchild of Wayne ZL2AYB, to give new hams the chance to experience the fun of a contest, without the pressure of ā€œseriousā€ operatorā€™s judgement! Each new ham was paired with an experienced operator to give guidance. It was held on Saturday 25th October, with most teams ensconced in a cosy...

HamCram – September 2020

Tutors Mike, Ian, Peter, Dennis, Steve, Rory, Des, Rob, Dave and of course, our longest running ā€˜candidate/tutorā€™, Cath. Those that passed were Don ZL3SDD, John ZL3JDR, Hugh ZL1BOM, Ian ZL3IR, Glenn ZL3MTN, Bryan ZL3BHS, Michael ZL3MDG and Paul ZL3PEB.

50MHz Beam Antenna – August 2020

The club built a kitset 4 Element 50ohm Yagi with 2.2m Boom.Based on a DK7ZB design https://www.qsl.net/dk7zb/6m/428-breit.htm (bottom of page) Medium bandwidth, high gain design with a gain of 6.8dBd and F/B ratio of lSdB Design will be built with 25mm/lin square boom, with 9.35mm/Ā¾in elements. Elements will have 12.7mm / Ā½in centre sections for...

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