Branch 50 (Wellington) NZART – Known as the Wellington Amateur Radio Club
Mike ZL1AXG hosted Evgeny UA3AHM recently, and Evgeny left behind a gift of a “City Windom”. Evgeny is a manufacturer of amateur antenna equipment and commercial duplexers. He is a talented OM and designed the City Windom himself. You can read all about it in an article he prepared here.
The October meeting featured the annual Blackwood Cup. Three entries were received – one each from Bernard ZL2BD, Ted ZL2TB and Mike ZL1AXG. The trophy went to Mike ZL1AXG for his adaptations of the BITX40 transceiver. But voting was very close. Mike will be writing up his BITX40 mods on the Arduino section of this website as time allows.
The other projects included:
The Wellington Amateur Radio Club Inc is a registered charity. Each year we provide Charity Services (at the Department of Internal Affairs) with our financial reports. This year we had to provide a lot more detail, including a statement of service performance. The information we provided to Charity Services is included in the documents below.
Wednesday 15 June at Wright’s Hill Fortress, 7.30pm.
Club members Don ZL2BL and George ZL2AG were our hosts for this event.
The Fortress is at the top of Wrights Hill Rd, and while the views from the top of Wright’s Hill are impressive, we weren’t up there for the views. Instead we went underground to the rabbit warren of concrete-lined tunnels built in the second half of World War II as part of a protection system for Wellington from foreign invaders. The big gun installed at Wright’s Hill could send shells around the harbour and further afield.
Members got to have a chat, peruse the old war recruiting materials, and then venture out of the meeting room to check out the restored radio shack, complete with ZC1s and other vintage equipment. Overall it was a very enjoyable evening and not as cold as we had anticipated underground!
