Meetings of the Wellington VHF Group
Meetings
NOTICE: Main Meeting – September, plus Shack Clearance Sale
Main Meeting – 24th September 7:30pm, Tawa Community Centre
Topic : A new propagation method with Steve Fogerty ZL2ASF
Some will have heard of it – a few will have used it, but probably did not quantify it.
Magnitude? = Huge
Availability? = up to 24 x 7 x 365
Useable from at least LF to HF, and maybe above that
Unusual? = very, and novel!
Provides opportunities for both experimenters and communicators
Steve will challenge your perceptions, and is guaranteed to raise many questions.
Event Calendar for Wellington VHF Group events...
We now have a Google Calendar tracking Events @ The Wellington VHF Group.
This has great potential - keep an eye on it for upcoming events and for those who use Gmail (etc) already, you can integrate this into your own Google view.
June Main Meeting
John ZL4JY will be speaking on digital mobile radio. This is an excIting talk on some of the modern digital standards in use in the mobile radio area, including P.25, Tetra and D-Star.
John promises lots of information, demonstrations and comments on the past, current and future!
March 2009 Special Interest Group: 10MHz Reference Oscillator Kit building.
This Thursday (5 March) is the March SIG, and we will be building the 10MHz reference oscillator kit as described in Q-Bit. We have a kitset supplied by Tim ZL2RST that will be available on the night, as well as power, soldering irons, freq counter and a spectrum analyser to see the output. Plenty of hands will be available to help, and if you have not done surface mount device (SMD) work before there will be boards and components to learn on.
The meeting will be at the Tawa Community Centre, in the AREC room. Supper will be provided, and we will be there from 7:30pm.