Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
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...
We arrived at clubroom at 9am on 9th July 2020. The workshop was flooded again, 2nd time in two weeks. We explored outside, to discover that the problem persists. Previous attempt to move bricks and loosen up the dirt has just ended up with saturated ground, and more flooding. Pick up the phone and call...
HamCram exam on Sunday 14th June. All passed.Tutors, Mike, Steve, Don, Richard, Dave and Cath.
Gilbert ZL3GIL During the lockdown I had time to finish off my BITX20 usb transceiver. This was one of my decade-long projectsā¦ I’d bought the pcbs & inductor cans off Sunil Lakhani VU3SUA around the time of the 2010- 2011 earthquakes and a bag of 10MHz crystals for the IF from one of our local...