Is There Anybody Out There?
Harry addressed the age old question as to which of horizontal or vertical polarised antennas offered the best performance, by erecting an example of each on one of the lawns. It was monthly meeting time again. The meeting was followed by a presentation on Hydrogen, and we had a couple… [Read More]
A calm morning at the Point and Harry, ZL1BK, set up for portable operation. With a 10m collapsible carbon fibre pole weighing in at around 0.5kg and an IC-705, portable is certainly an apt description. A pole support in the form of a wire stake, similar to a real-estate sign… [Read More]
An interesting day of contrasts where Rob ZL4ROB participated in an AREC exercise using Winlink, Mark ZL1MRT trialled a move in transmission frequency for his encoded CW data communications and Martyn ZL3CK, Harry ZL1BK and Graham ZL1TOF used tried and true GROTA technology. A minor problem: two were operating on… [Read More]
Enough of the annoying noise; today it has to go. Dave arrived early and set about looking at previously unexplored possibilities. CCTV cameras weren’t to blame, but something closely associated with them was definitely dodgy. For one of the outside facing cameras, we had installed an IR source for night… [Read More]