Branch 50 (Wellington) NZART – Known as the Wellington Amateur Radio Club
A meeting was held on Thursday 17 November 2016, at the Tawa Community Hall at 7.30pm (thanks to VHF Group for facilitating this), to establish RemoteDX Inc.
A total of 19 amateur operators, representing all local clubs, attended and became foundation signatories and members of the new society. There is free membership for the first 12 months.
See the RemoteDX website for further information.
Doug ZL2AOV writes in his report on the WARC February 2016 club meeting:
“QHUG members are expecting “a very active year” – Bernard ZL2BD made a Powerpoint presentation showing his summer work fitting out the fibreglass box with solid-state linears and power supplies, switching regulators to provide 230v DC, 24v and 12v DC for the various items, plus a solar panel regulator and wiring harnesses for the huge battery bank. Progressive testing is imminent – any noise problems will be dealt with as they arise. Other jobs to do are: complete the antenna switching and the SCADA software to operate remotely (SCADA = Supervisory Controller & Data Acquisition). Frank ZL2TTS has been working on this. Cooling circuitry also needs assembly and installation; the enclosure’s front panel will be modified for this. Noted that Ralph ZL2AOH is stepping down as QHUG treasurer after many years.”
Check out the new ZL6QH Remote Site website.
This will chronicle developments with the proposed remote site of the Quartz Hill User Group.
Kordia has kindly donated some surplus equipment for the QHUG future remote site. This includes two Datron 1Kw linear amplifiers and associated 28V power supplies as indicated in the images below. These will be straight forward to connect up to amateur transceivers at the remote site. We were also gifted two Datron transceivers that could be used for a range of purposes (e.g. beacon stations or for fixed frequency digital mode use) and a Furuno receiver. These donations are huge boost to the project!
