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.
The feature series in the last three month’s of Q Bit has been about using 1/4 wave stubs for filters. To follow this up, the author is going to provide an overview of the theory and a short practical demonstration of stub filters.
Doug ZL2TAR has plenty of professional and practical experience with designing and implementing 1/4 wave filters to meet the requirements of closely located antennas and site that may suffer from interference.
Hello and Happy New Year!
Our only meeting this month is a BBQ with the Kapiti Branch on Saturday 26 January from midday. We will be at QEII park picnic area 7 and entry is via Wellington Road, Paekakariki. (access from Paekakariki and you will need to bring everything- even shade and a seat! There is plenty of space and last year was a lovely afternoon. If you can bring a BBQ to cook on (gas only), please do so if you don't have one, I'm sure you can share space on one.
The October meeting will be the AGM & AREC section AGM followed by the traditional show and tell.
The AGM will include voting on the proposed change to the constitution published in Q-Bit
Date: 25 October 2018
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Tawa Community Centre
You may have noticed that the site now has a different look, the CMS that it runs on has just had a major upgrade, if you notice anything wrong or missing please use the contact form to let me know
Rob, ZL2WAL webmaster
From Stuff: (the last part of the article; read the link for the full details)
Thursday 30th August 7:30 PM Tawa Community Centre
Don ZL2TYR has offered to give us an update on the recent changes with AREC, as well as tell us some of the plans AREC has for the future.
Prohibiting illegal use of two way radios
The RSM Compliance team are working on a Prohibition Notice to limit the import and illegal use of a range of low end two way radios.
There are a variety of these radios on the market, like Baofeng, Pofung and Woxun for example. They allow users to programme their own frequency from the front panel or via a USB cable. Although designed for the Amateur Radio Operator, these radios in the wrong hands have been attributed to malicious calls on police, forestry and rail frequencies.
