Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
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...
My lockdown project is a portable VHF/UHF satellite antenna for use with the motor home. The antenna uses plastic conduit for the boom, 8 elements on 70 cm and 5 elements on 2 metres, crossed. It all snaps together using plastic conduit clips and can be assembled and attached to a camera tripod in less...
Fox hunting (also known as Transmitter hunting, bunny hunting, and bunny chasing), is an activity wherein participants use radio direction finding techniques to locate one or more radio transmitters hidden within a designated search area.
Congratulations to Joshua Judkins ZL3MHZ (age 9), for the NZART Best Youth Exam result award.
Congratulations to our eight students who passed the July 2021 Hamcram course and gained their Radio operators certificate of Competency, well done. Not only were they all scoring over 50, there was even a smattering of 100% scores amongst them! Words provided by Kelvin ZL3KB Photo’s provided by Ian ZL3TOA & Kelvin ZL3KB