Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
The AGM for the club was held on the 7th December 2022, usual reports and some new members on the committee. Position Callsign President ZL3TMB Vice-President ZL3RIK Treasurer ZL3TAO Secretary ZL3TOY AREC – Group Manager ZL3TVP Committee ZL3LL, ZL3OOC,ZL2BCF, ZL3CATH,ZL3LR AREC – Treasurer ZL3ADZ Elected officers of the Club for 2023
Focus Group meeting 5th December 2022 Green Radios On The Air (GROTA) indoor meetingThis month – We take a look at the ZC1 history, and then dive into “ZC1 repair for beginners”. All welcome.
Congratulations to the seven successful candidates that passed their exam on Sunday 22st November.
The November fox hunt started from Watermans Place, Ferrymead, with the fox hidden in CharlesworthReserve. A call was made at 13:45 on the weather, it was dry so we proceeded with our normal start time of 14:30. Murphy struck as normal and the rain started just as the hunters moved into Charlesworth Reserve. The fox...
Amateur Of the Year for 2021 is a member of the Hamcram team. In December 2018 she had already passed the exam but attended the Hamcram. Since then, she has attended another 9 Hamcrams, but now covers the Regulations questions and provides lollies. I run 3 topics using Plickers – for the last 4 Hamcrams...
A member of the public was cycling past the clubrooms a few months ago and asked Richard ZL4FZ, who happened to be there, if this was a “radio club”. He followed up with a letter of introduction stuck to the clubroom door. Reg Stedman is 94 years old, and was a radio Op in the...
Back in the mists of time, I believe it was July of 2021, Branch 05 facilitated its first 2 metre band, filter building session. Keith Birse ZL4JA (pictured below) had devised a filter, constructed on a tiny PC Board, which could improve the performance of cheap 2 metre handhelds, of Chineseium construction. Although Keith is...
The Branch 05 Clubroom was not quite packed-like-sardines, as a dozen suitably socially Distanced folks attended at the Homebrew show and tell evening. First up was Mark “Dolby” (as I can’t remember his call’). (ZL3JVX ed) Mark’s project as displayed onscreen, was as complicated as we have come to expect from him. But he’s always...
Antennas and things I finally went & got a round tuit & made up a 30/60 trapped dipole which I was able to put up as a near flat top at 6 meters high. The results have been outstanding on both bands with numerous contacts into Europe & Scandinavia on 30metres. Apart from Summits, Lakes...