The first shed workshop was held on Sunday 29 April from 1pm – 3pm at Bernard ZL2BD’s QTH (1 Winsley Tce, Churton Park)
The topic was Antenna Tuners, with Bernard recounting the various design types (Z-match, T-match, Pi match, etc.).
City Windom
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.
Some of us brought out our construction projects
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:
- a 4 way antenna switch (from Bernard ZL2BD) which was beautifully presented (the case was made with 2 aluminium channels and a ). Channel isolation was found to be around 70dB (i.e. excellent) with insertion loss in the fractions of 1dB;
- a collection of home brew single lever paddle (from Ted ZL2TB) that use magnetic latching to provide a nice key “feel”. Ted has a few for sale as well if anybody is looking for a nice non-iambic paddle.
Our annual report to Charity Services
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.
