Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
This year’s field day was spread across January 27th and 28th. Many thanks for all the participants who came along to help at JWMFD. Especially those who were new to HF operating but who were willing to give it a go. All in all a good event this year and thoroughly enjoyable. The operators were...
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...
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...
With the Covid 19 virus lockdown reduced to level 2 that meant that the SOTA programme was back on track & the mountain goats were let out of their enforced confinement. May 16th saw 5 intrepid activators brave the early morning ground fog that lay in patches in the city & climb various summits. Four...
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...
VHF Field Day station.The team was Andy Zl3KKW, Wayne ZL2AYB, Bruce ZL3TFD Rick ZL3RIK and Alan ZL3UYJ.
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...
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...
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...