Wellington VHF Group

For this months General meeting John ZL2XJ & Pete ZL2SLD Will give a presentation on WinLink.

Date: 29 August 2024
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Tawa Community Centre

The topic for this months General meeting will be 3D Printing for fun & Amateur Radio, Rob ZL2WAL will give an over view of Consumer 3D printing and some of the ways it can be used for fun & Amateur Radio

Date: 27 June 2024
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Tawa Community Centre

The January meeting is a combined meeting with all branches invited at QE2 Park Paekākāriki, enter via Wellington Road then Queen Elizabeth Road and meet in the open area indicated by the red cross in the photo .

BYO food, drinks , portable chairs , ground rug etc. There is some seating in the park. For those bringing a BBQ it must be GAS (no wood or charcoal).

XYLs YLs & family also welcome.

Bring bikes to explore the tracks around the park .

Date: Sunday 28 January

Time: From midday

Location: QE2 Park, Paekākāriki

The BBQ today has been canceled due to the weather

Rob ZL2WAL will take on his experiences setting up and using Software Defined Radio (SDR) based on the RTL Dongle.

Also:

The VHF Group has inherited a HP8753C spectrum analyser and S-parameter test set.

This will be on-site and available for members to try out at this month’s meeting,  the plan being to make it available for members to use on an ongoing basis by arrangement.

30th - Main : 7:30pm, Tawa Community Centre, Cambridge St, Tawa.

Ian Hutchings, ZL2HUT with give us a talk on :

• Finding a frequency that works

and

• What to do if it doesnt!

A look at finding a link frequency for NZ Coastguard linking in Wellington, and

making it work!

This months general meeting will be Troubleshooting TCP/IP by Ron Zoest ZL4TDR

Date: 28 April 2022

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: Tawa Community Centre

This month’s meeting is an update on the work being done by the Wellington mesh steering group. The group has put together a plan to reactivate and enhance the various nodes around Wellington with the aim of making it reliable and a valuable asset for remote operations and AREC use. There are mesh nodes on many of the VHF Group’s sites and members’ homes, so it will be good to have them working again.

In place of the committee meeting this month we will be having a picnic dinner, come along and join the committee for a picnic dinner at Willowbank Reserve in Tawa:

• When: Thursday 9 December 2021 From 6:00pm
• Where: Willowbank Reserve by the Takapu Road station at the southern end of Tawa https://wellington.govt.nz/recreation/outdoors/parks-and-reserves/city-and-suburban-reserves/willowbank-reserve
• Bring: Your dinner

Sadly we hear that John ZL2TAU (Salvin John) passed away over the weekend.  We offer our sincere condolences to John's partner and his family.

John had just made it to 80 years and had been an amateur since his early 20's, certainly a double old-timer.  John was very active in radio both professionally and as an active amateur.  John has been involved in construction, repeaters, VHF DX, and site investigations and negotiations over the years, and was a very strong supporter of the VHF Group.