Christchurch Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 05 – ZL3AC
Saturday 20th at 9am – working bee Bruce ZL3TDF had his digger there to remove some soil before some extra gravel is laid in the car park. Plenty of other jobs were also done as well. A huge thank you to Rod ZL3NW, Rick ZL3RIK, Wayne ZL2AYB, Rory ZL3HB, Bruce ZL3TDF and his digger, Ian...
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...
Rodents are a problem everywhere in the world. They seek dry warm places like our repeater huts and cause havoc with wiring and the like. To combat this foam was sprayed into the access points for cable at Marley’s Hill repeater hut. Unfortunately this was not successful. They ate thought the foam and still gained...
9am Saturday 11th January Jim ZL3ND, Bruce ZL3TDF, Mike ZL3TMB, and Craig CH5311 (I’m twisting his arm to get a real call-sign) met at the clubrooms to load up with gear, ready for the trip to Mt Herbert. We spent some time making some new battery cables for the install at the club. We finally...
Cleanup team was Bruce Smith ZL3TDF, Paul Turner ZL3PTR, Peter Tyerman ZL3IA, Ian MacPherson ZL3AO, Mike Duncan ZL3MWD and Mike Barnes ZL3TMB. Photo by Sophie Barnes. Photo’s by Paul Turner ZL3PTR.
The last two Friday’s have seen a substantial amount of work at the Marley’s Hill site. All the old chain clamps are now long gone on the upper pole. We have replaced the old Diamond X50 antenna with 4 dipoles, run all new feeders to the hut, tweaked the duplexer tuning, labelled all the feeders...
On Friday 13th Jan 2017 team of seven people (Rory ZL3HB, Rob ZL3RX, Rod ZL3ROD, Mike Zl3TMB, Morrie ZL3RP, Steve ZL2UCX and myself ZL4FZ) spent a day at Herbert. We met at Diamond Harbour at 0830 and finished around 1630. We have replaced the mounts with a 48mmOD water pipe, reinstated the original whip antenna...