Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
Although the Christchurch Amateur Radio Club was not part of the annual JOTA weekend this year in October, Christchurch hams were still active in helping the young scouts to get on the air. Unfortunately our own Echo link repeater didn’t want to take part of the event, but local scouts were still able to taste...
At 9am on 23rd June 2018 saw the doors open to the second combined groups Junque *previously loved” sale at the premises of the club rooms in Fendalton, Christchurch. Since first occupying the spacious club rooms around four years ago, the club has encouraged use of the space by similarly minded groups; to date this...
At the NZART Conference I was please to accept Arthur Godfrey Awards on behalf of two of our members . Mike Duncan ZL3MWD. His outstanding service to Christchurch Branch has included Richard Smart ZL4FZ. His outstanding service to Christchurch Branch has included The Club also retained the Rothschild Cup for most exam passes. Accepted by...
This is the day Andrew White ZL3CC ex ZL3ADW passed away . His funeral was at the Linwood crematorium Wednesday 28th March 2018 at 10 AM. Amateur radio was a large part of Andrew’s life, especially SOTA, so he was sorely missed by the Ham radio community.
Another field day under the belt, I think this is my 25th! Our scores look good, and we should be up there with the leaders. Great to see such a good turn out, I counted nine members at one time, plus second harmonics. The field was made available to us by CCC, and we received...
The last two Friday’s have seen a substantial amount of work at the Marley’s Hill site. All the old chain clamps are now long gone on the upper pole. We have replaced the old Diamond X50 antenna with 4 dipoles, run all new feeders to the hut, tweaked the duplexer tuning, labelled all the feeders...
Photos provided by Rick ZL3RIK
June commenced with the NZART Annual Conference in Rotorua. I had a very busy Saturday morning collecting the Rothschild Trophy for the Branch with the most exam passes, then a certificate and Icom handheld for Mathew ZL3COG for the best youth exam mark, and finally the NZART Amateur of Year Trophy on behalf of Kelvin...