Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
On the evening of 20th Dec 2019, we held Hamcram+ where several of the new hams got started on their next step into amateur radio with some vhf simplex contacts. Most also really enjoyed an 80m contact with Boyd ZL3LE. A few even ventured onto 705 on the way home from the meeting.
VHF Field Day station.The team was Andy Zl3KKW, Wayne ZL2AYB, Bruce ZL3TFD Rick ZL3RIK and Alan ZL3UYJ.
Congratulations on Amateur of the Year Bruce ZL3TDF 4th December 2019.
The audience was only 10 of us, but we were all keen to learn from the more experienced club members. Blair ZL3TOY would seem to have more experience than some. Apparently he was licensed at just 11 years old (!). Blair reckons when starting out, just borrow some gear to give it a try, avoid...
Despite the cold evening (indeed earlier in the day we’d had thunderstorms and hail in some areas), but with the advent of Daylight Saving beginning all the moths came out of the woodwork. Oh sorry I meant “hams” got out of their shacks.Before the meeting started, early birds got to pick over the recycling/junk table,...
Robin ZL3TCM organized a AO-91 and AO-92 SSTV day on Saturday 14th of September. These satellites are good but I and most others have trouble with deep fades. The SSTV mode chosen was Robot 24 160 by 120 and Robot 36 320 by 240. Robot 24 is the fastest speed for a colour picture but...
Despite the drizzly rain and generally cold conditions, some 30 folks made the effort to attend the club meeting where Nikki Reece the station manager at FM 96.9 gave her talk. Plains FM has been broadcasting in Christchurch and throughout the surrounding Canterbury district since the 29th of February 1988. Nikki Reece started with the...
The latest RadioTek was held on 18 August, and saw a big turnout of students to make the usual selection of radio kits. We hosted six first timers, including two from the last HamCram event who are teachers in real life; so it ended up being “train the trainers”! In total the students numbered fourteen,...
On the weekend of 27th & 28th July 2019 we held another successful event, where seven prospective hams took part in the weekend course to gain their certificate of competency.. On the Sunday afternoon, they all sat the exam, and we had six passes, with a “promise to return” from the seventh.