Is There Anybody Out There?
Dave ZL1DL and Harry ZL1BK caught practicing rope knots? Maybe knot. They were just whipping up (knot funny) a quick ferrite based choke for John ZL1OJ to try on his recently installed “random wire” antenna. After that, Dave produced an “unlikely to impress” multi-band HF vertical. With a tapped coil… [Read More]
A good turn out resulted in a mixed bag of activities for Sunday. John ZL1OJ, keenly wanting to get going on HF, fitted a length of coax with PL-259’s. After discovering the 5775 repeater still had a low but annoying beat tone noticeable at low receive levels, Keith ZL1BQE and… [Read More]
Wednesday 17/7, we made a start on our emergency resilience project. A relatively simple exercise for the day – install extra low voltage battery powered lighting for use if there is a mains outage. The operating consoles have an overhead light fitting – the contents of which was replaced with… [Read More]
The 5775 repeater has undergone a minor adjustment – thanks to Keith ZL1BQE. A temporary replacement was switched out on Sunday morning. with the return of the current repeater. An accompanying / annoying low level tone was audible on the repeater output for weaker signals into the repeater. An adjustment… [Read More]
A big welcome to the ham fraternity to Ira, ZL3INM who sat his exam at MP on Wednesday 3/7. Ira passed with flying colours and his QTH is on the North Shore. We have armed him with a portable on 144 so hopefully we will hear him soon on the… [Read More]
A lady visitor to the area approached Rob ZL4ROB for information regarding the MP building. Turns out she hosted a program, called Kia Ora Brazil, on a Hamilton community radio station. Rob roped Dave ZL1DL into telling the story, which to his chagrin was recorded and advised would be material… [Read More]