Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
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...
Some say there are three certainties in life; Death, Taxes and Jock White Field Day. February came around yet again and the team cobbled the gear together for the weekend exercise. Due to a SAREX we were one down on the number of AREC vans available, so we chose to have both stations in under...
On Friday 13th Jan 2017 team of seven people (Rory ZL3HB, Rob ZL3RX, Rod ZL3ROD, Mike Zl3TMB, Morrie ZL3RP, Steve ZL2UCX and myself ZL4FZ) spent a day at Herbert. We met at Diamond Harbour at 0830 and finished around 1630. We have replaced the mounts with a 48mmOD water pipe, reinstated the original whip antenna...
Christchurch Branch nominated Kelvin Barnsdale ZL3KB as NZART Amateur of the Year for 2016. During the past year Kelvin participated in the following activities: In addition, Kelvin has been one of the stalwarts of the weekly “Activities and Study Night”. We now have between 30 and 40 members regularly dropping in to the clubrooms every...