Saturday, 12th December 2020 and time for a diversion from the worries of the world at the branch 05 clubrooms. After two evenings, and one morning of load-in of some of Christchurch’s finest Junque, the doors finally opened at 9am, with a flood of ‘customers’. Overall, around a hundred buyers turned up during the morning...
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VHF Field Day Contest – December 2020
After a couple of months planning six hearty souls headed up to the woolshed in Greenwood Reserve, Mt Pleasant for the club’s annual field day contest. We’d decided to cover the same bands as last year namely 6M, 2M & 70cm with the possibility of 23cm added on the Sunday. One of the team pointed...
Satanic Cult Meeting – November 2020
Background : This was just a bar-be-que held by club members as a dig at the Christchurch Fellowship meetings started by the then club secretary. It was felt that the line had been crossed, when the club committee allowed the club secretary to start the group by using club mailing list. Amateur Radio – no...
ZL3CC SOTA Memorial Day – 12th September 2020
Saturday 12th September saw six ZL3 activators ascend eight separate summits on Banks Peninsula & Zl3X/ZL3AB up in the Hanmer region. The mountain goats were: Geoff, ZL3GA was the cab off the rank & very quickly was able to get his 4+ contacts & was met by ZL3RIK who was taking over Flag Peak while...
Mt. Herbert Maintenance Trip – May 2020
Antenna replacement with a folded dipole as the main antenna on the pole has been damaged and water is in the coax cable.Steve ZL2UCX and Richard ZL4FZ climbed the tower with the 1st climb last 75 minutes and the 2nd climb lasted 45 minutes. It was cold with a nor-easterly wind and visibility was less...
Homebrew Evening – March 2020
The evening started with a stern warning from some rather fierce sounding dude (Big Pete) at the front table, that of the club’s 274 members, about 190 had not yet paid their annual membership fee. (Turns out, I was also one of the naughty ones. I’m gonna have to have stern words with my secretary)....
Jock White Field Day – 22nd & 23rd February 2020
Photo’s by Ian ZL3TOA Photo’s by Ken Zl3EC ZL3AC 20 ZL3AC 2020 Jock White Field Day – ZL3KBZL3AC 2020 Jock White Field Day – ZL3KBk White Field Day – ZL3KB Another great event, Christchurch Amateur Radio Club supporting the Jock White Field day.Thanks to all that gave a hand erecting the aerials and bringing them...
HamCram+ – December 2019
On the evening of 20th Dec 2019, we held Hamcram+ where several of the new hams got started on their next step into amateur radio with some vhf simplex contacts. Most also really enjoyed an 80m contact with Boyd ZL3LE. A few even ventured onto 705 on the way home from the meeting.
ZL3AC Mt Pleasant VHF Field Day – December 2019
VHF Field Day station.The team was Andy Zl3KKW, Wayne ZL2AYB, Bruce ZL3TFD Rick ZL3RIK and Alan ZL3UYJ.