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ZL2AA Gisborne Amateur Radio Club
NZART Branch 11
21 JUNE 2008 690 BACK ON AIR
Meetings
July Meeting
The meeting will be held at the Bryce Street Scout Hall (near Ormand Road and Atkinson Street). See you there Monday, July 14th at 19:30.
Membership
Meetings are held at 7:30 pm on the second Monday of each month (except January) in the Bryce Street Scout Hall, Mangapapa, Gisborne.
Dues for 2008 have been reduced to $35, with a special $10 rate available to students. Dues may be paid to the treasurer at any meeting.
Repeaters
The club sponsors three 2 metre voice repeaters, a link to the National System (currently operating as a local UHF repeater), and cooperates with another local UHF repeater. The club also has an ATV repeater and digipeater (mainly used for APRS).
- 680
Serving Gisborne city from Kaiti Hill, the 146.80 repeater, it also provides IRLP Node 6105. We look forward to hearing from you.
- 685
- With coverage of the gorge to the north...
- 690
The area's high level 146.90 repeater on Whakapunake, providing good coverage from Poverty Bay to Hawkes Bay.
- 9875
- The National System link located at Whakapunake.
- ZL2AA-1 (GBD)
- A high level digipeater also on Whakapunake.
National System Comes to Gisborne
Gisborne is now connected to the National System! Roger ZL2RC, Ian ZL2IMM, and Hamish ZL2HC made a trip to Whakapunake on Sunday, 30 March 2008 and switched on the National System. Roger had installed the equipment at the club's Whakapunake site on Sunday, February 10th and left it running in test mode as a local 439.875- repeater.
Nets
There is a very informal net starting to meet Sunday evenings at 1900 on the Whakapunake 146.90- repeater. Join us and catch up with the rest of the club members.
There are also a number of members that gather on 1.855 MHz (160 meters) on Sunday evenings at 2100.
Mailing List
http://groups.google.com/group/branch11 is a mailing list for discussion of all facets of amateur radio in the Gisborne region. Warning if your call sign is your email address eg.ZL2**@***, then if you send a message to someone on xtra the xtra spam filter will stop it getting through and put it in the Trash folder. If you are on xtra might pay to check on their web site, maybe people are sending messages to you but they are being stopped
ATV
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The Gisborne Amateur Television Repeater is on the air most Sundays from 1500hrs to 1600 hours, picture only at present and while on, if not being used by amateurs, radiates a test pattern on UHF Channel 39. ZL2HC generally transmits a series of slides to other interested amateurs over the hour and usually starts one transmission at 1500 hours. To check your receive system at other times try to receive the Maori channel on UHF Channel 38, just below the amateur channel. If you can the amateur channel should be watchable when it is on. |
APRS
There is currently a resurgence in APRS activity in the Gisborne area. The recommended settings for use in the Gisborne area now copy the WIDEn-N paradigm in use in most of the world.
See the APRS page for information on possible APRS from Arowhana. You can download the minutes of a meeting of interested amateurs from the bottom of the page
Jim ZL2IA has a weather station on APRS, so you can see what the weather is just up the coast at Makorori. Other members are checking out the possibility of more weather stations around Gisborne.
Activities
- SAREX
- On February 29th Alan ZL2AOP, Alistair ZL2AIX, Steve ZL2RI, Dot ZL2BAI, and Rolly were among the hams that supported the search and rescue exercise staged in the Mount Arawhana area. The terrain has been described as "tiger country" with steep ravines, shale and difficult growth. The headquarters were at the Arawhana station and comms in the caravan with moble cookhouse right alongside.
Read about other recent activities...
Exams
Thinking about taking the ham licensing exam? Check with Arnie ZL1CAX.