Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
After such a great run of Christchurch, Canterbury weather, with fine sunny conditions every day for a month and temperatures running in the mid to high 20’s, a spell of cooler weather and some rain arrived here just in time for the weekend of the 23rd and 24th of February. Saturday the group had the...
As hoped, the clubrooms were open and ready for BBQ-business by 10am boxing day morning. Some months ago the committee agreed to allow a local building firm to use our car park during the day, and these fine-folks donated quite an enormous meaty-pile of goodies, bags of crisps, cheese, and soft drinks for this BBQ...
Congratulations to Graham Lees ZL3GSL for his award, rightly deserved for all his amazing work in staying abreast with the latest technology.
On Saturday 24th, Christchurch Branch 05 held one of their occasional Garage Sales at the Idris Road clubrooms. The day started out, well to be quite honest, the weather was really rubbish, a cold wind blew and the rain was on and off. But by 9am I arrived just in time to get one of...
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...