Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
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...
Ian ZL3TAO (left) presenting the Amateur of the Year award to Paul ZL3PTR (right) for his help on the website, museum database, radio room and other efforts.
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...
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...
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 āseriousā operatorās 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...
Tutors Mike, Ian, Peter, Dennis, Steve, Rory, Des, Rob, Dave and of course, our longest running ācandidate/tutorā, Cath. Those that passed were Don ZL3SDD, John ZL3JDR, Hugh ZL1BOM, Ian ZL3IR, Glenn ZL3MTN, Bryan ZL3BHS, Michael ZL3MDG and Paul ZL3PEB.
After meeting at lake Janet at 11:30am 2 four-wheel drives and Geoff in his small car headed up the 5km 15 min drive up to the Kordia tower. After arriving at the top at 1155 and checking out the views Richard ZL4FZ then gained access to the building and then with the help of mainly...
Saturday 12th September saw six ZL3 activators ascend eight separate summits on Banks Peninsula & Zl3X/ZL3AB up in the Hanmer region. The mountain goats were: Geoff, ZL3GA was the cab off the rank & very quickly was able to get his 4+ contacts & was met by ZL3RIK who was taking over Flag Peak while...
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...