Again we will hold our end of year dinner at YumYum House in Tawa.

Please RSVP to info@vhf.nz and partners, family, friends are all welcome.  

From 7pm, but come when you can as it is a fairly large group and they cannot cook for us all at the same time! 

John Zl4JY will speak on the new 4RF Communications LTE radios.

See 4rf.com

Also DMR Codeplug Updates

Rob ZL2WAL will be able to update some models with the latest codeplugs. Please see Rob at the start of the meeting.

Don ZL2TYR, National Director AREC, will present on the new changes to AREC and the new directions and activities that are being worked on.

This subject has had some coverage as the changes have been working along for over a year now.  What is happening next is a result of the work done by the AREC management team to increase participation, increase the interaction with other organisations and become better at providing the services that AREC is designed to deliver.

The Group is holding amateur radio classes this August.  They will be 1,15 and 22 August at Tawa Community Centre, 7:30-9:00 PM.

The material to be used is available on this site at this link.  You will need to print at least the questions with answers, Book 5 (60 pages).

The material you need to know is Book 2 (131 pages).

We are looking to have these available for people, please contact us if you cannot arrange to get them printed your self.

Bernard presented on small magnetic loop antennas at the June meeting.  Bernard has been working on these for many years, and the main message was -They work very well but must be made very carefully and you need to accept a number of limitations.

The main limitation is the very small bandwidth, followed by the high level of care required in designing and making them.  A key issue is loop resistance. Bernard makes his loops from 1 inch copper pipe and to reduce the resistance from the joins, uses 4 x 90 deg angles, carefully silver soldered. His loop is a square!

Bernard is well known for his work with HF loop antennas and has many years of designing, building and evaluating these interesting (and somewhat rare) variant.

 Bernard's recent talks at other local branches have had very good reviews and some members asked if he could speak at our monthly meeting, which Bernard has offered.  This was also following a loop building session at his QTH where models were build and tested.

Please come along on Thursday 27 June to hear Bernard's talk.