Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
The audience was only 10 of us, but we were all keen to learn from the more experienced club members. Blair ZL3TOY would seem to have more experience than some. Apparently he was licensed at just 11 years old (!). Blair reckons when starting out, just borrow some gear to give it a try, avoid...
Despite the cold evening (indeed earlier in the day we’d had thunderstorms and hail in some areas), but with the advent of Daylight Saving beginning all the moths came out of the woodwork. Oh sorry I meant “hams” got out of their shacks.Before the meeting started, early birds got to pick over the recycling/junk table,...
Robin ZL3TCM organized a AO-91 and AO-92 SSTV day on Saturday 14th of September. These satellites are good but I and most others have trouble with deep fades. The SSTV mode chosen was Robot 24 160 by 120 and Robot 36 320 by 240. Robot 24 is the fastest speed for a colour picture but...
Despite the drizzly rain and generally cold conditions, some 30 folks made the effort to attend the club meeting where Nikki Reece the station manager at FM 96.9 gave her talk. Plains FM has been broadcasting in Christchurch and throughout the surrounding Canterbury district since the 29th of February 1988. Nikki Reece started with the...
As part of HamCram+ evening on Thursday 18th April, the branch ran a VHF Activity Hour. Contacting most of the new HamCrammer in the activity hour had the added bonus of a free Easter Egg!The suggested frequencies were CW 144.050 MHz SSB 144.200 MHz Digital 144.400 MHz AM 145250 MHz FM 146.500 MHz Note that...
Twelve attendees were privileged to see the substantial amount of “home brew” projects that turned up at Branch05 on the night of Wednesday 27th February 2019. Arthur’s project (ZL3JQ) was created by him some 33 years ago. A double sideband transceiver it puts out about 3 watts max PEP and can do Morse or Voice....
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...