13/4/24 Ground Control to Major Tom

Today we had a presentation about AREC from Steve Main – Northern Regional Manager for AREC. Steve outlined the current structure and direction of AREC and the relationships it has with a number of emergency services, as well as successful initiatives they have developed to attract people to Ham Radio.… [Read More]

12/4/24 Hold the Line Please Caller

Maurice ZL1MPU and Dave ZL1DL were having a conversation on the 5775 repeater on Thursday afternoon when the repeater remained triggered from around 13:40. It appeared that the problem was a transmission on the input frequency as there was some apparent low level audio detectable: fan noise, hum and some… [Read More]