Breakout 2016 – 05 May

BREAKOUT

The Newsletter of the Hastings and Napier Amateur Radio Clubs

Hastings Branch 13 NZART – Napier Branch 25 NZART   Volume 16, Issue 5 May 2016

Hastings Br 13 Club Calls
ZL2AS
ZL2QS

Napier Br 25 Club Calls
ZL2GT
ZL2G

IRLP Node
6793
147.250

Branch Nets
9.00 AM
Sunday Morning
3615 kHz
439.175 MHz

Editor
John Newson
ZL2VAF

http://www.zl2gt.nz/   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zl2as/

Inside This Issue
Hastings Branch 13 Report   Page 2
History Revisited   Page 3
Pictures from Tokyo Museum   Page 4
Old R/T’s talk   Page 5
Logics preamble   Page 6
On offer   Page 7
Rally of Gisborne   Page 7

KIWI
ZL
DX GROUP

Photo caption – An old R/T – our guest’s discussion subject at Branch 13’s meeting this Wednesday is on old R/T’s. Details inside …

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HASTINGS BRANCH 13

President:   Rob Leicester ZL2US   Ph 8786381
Secretary:   David Walker ZL2DW   Ph 8760518,   email [email protected]
Treasurer:   Peter Keong ZL2PW   Ph 8774529   email: [email protected]
AREC/CD   John Newson ZL2VAF   Ph 876 0370   email: [email protected]
AREC Deputy:   Robert Wallace ZL2SG   Ph 878 4993   email [email protected]

Committee
Jan Suldovsky ZL2CZE   Ph 021 833 487 wk   email [email protected]
Rob Shepherd ZL2AN   Ph 8440109    email [email protected]
Bert Cunningham ZL2OC   Ph 8448549   email [email protected]
David Sullivan ZL2OK   Ph 06 8578853   email: [email protected]

Hastings QSL Distribution:   Wally Shuker ZL2MO   Ph 843 5497   email [email protected]
Magazine Editor:   John Newson ZL2VAF   Ph. 027 230 3642   email [email protected]

NZART License Examiners:   Peter – ZL2LF
Club Call:   ZL2AS and ZL2QS

Club Nights:   Fourth Wednesday each month at 7.30 pm Pakowhai Hall, Pakowhai Road, Pakowhai

From THE CHIEF RETIREE

Well I didn’t know there would be so many Fridays in a week until I retired…having said that I can say that I have never been fishing on so many Friday’s in all my life hi hi. My shed has had a thrashing/clean up and I found stuff that I’d forgotten about. I’m told that the HF bands have been great but I haven’t made time to avail myself…and now I find that soon I’ll be going back to my old work while some staff have a holiday…oh well that will make a change from retirement.

I’m a little unsure of this but I believe there is about to be a ham station in Antarctica some time soon, keep an eye out for notices about this as it would be a good location to work.

Our local D-Star repeater and service is going well and has gained a few more local operators over the last month or so.

Recently I had a heart stopping moment when a tractor mounted hedge trimming machine caught a guy wire for my VHF yagi mast…and broke it, however the mast didn’t fall and it was repaired in short order by means best not spoken about, shhhhhhh.

Our meeting schedule for most of the year remaining is nearly full, here is a sample.
25 May, remits and a talk by 2RB and 2DW re old Land Mobile R/T’s (HF and VHF, both AM mode)
22 June (no Pakowhai Hall meeting, instead we will visit the ABB factory at the Napier Airport Industrial Park, more info. to come next month).
27 July, is our annual “Donated Junk Auction”…start gathering your junk and money…a guaranteed fun night. Proceeds to Br 13.
21 Aug (Sun. afternoon) (NOT the usual Wed 24/8 meeting time), a radio related lady guest speaker and perhaps a light BBQ.
More to follow
73 for now, Rob Leicester ZL2US (Br 13/HBARC President)

Branch 13/HBARC Officers (left to right)
David Walker (ZL2DW, Secretary),
Rob Leicester (ZL2US, President),
Peter Keong (ZL2PW, Treasurer)

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NAPIER BRANCH 25

President:   Wally Shuker ZL2MO   843 5497   email [email protected]
Secretary:   Karl Matthys ZL1TJ   8454372   email [email protected]
Treasurer:   Stan White ZL2ST   845 2422   email [email protected]
AREC:   Mike Bull ZL2VM   843 6052   email [email protected]

Committee:
Michael Mullins ZL2MY   843 4210   email [email protected]
Dave ZL2MQ,   0212428959   email [email protected]
Revell Troy ZL2SS   0210742837   email [email protected]
Peter Breen ZL2CD   0274721527   email [email protected]

Committee Meetings:   7:30 pm, 3rd Tuesday of January, March, May, July, September, November
Club Calls:   ZL2GT, ZL2G
Club Web Site:   http://www.zl2gt.nz/

Club Nights:   First Wednesday each month (except January) 7.30pm at the Club Rooms:   123 Latham Street Napier

HISTORY REVISITED

Prior to the death in 1974 of Jim Mills, ZL2BE, one of his contacts was with Ian VK3MO. Ian was able to reminisce recently while visiting Bob ZL2AN in Napier by taking a brief visit to the former Mills Estate near Hastings where Jim had his two Rhombic aerials (one pointing to UK and the other pointing to USA, both on very tall wooden masts which were, depending on the time of the year, above soggy ground. Both fed with open wire feeders from Jim’s shacks…yes he had two).

Ian enjoyed his time catching up on the other end of an old time contact of his. Ian runs stacked Rhombic aerials, one at 70ft and the other at 140ft…and yes they work very well he tells us but compliments them with a Yagi array…4 x 5 element beams stacked on a 200 ft rotating tower. Have a look on qrz.com
https://www.qrz.com/lookup
David ZL2DW

Bob ZL2AN and Ian VK3MO at Oingo/Omahu, Hastings. Beyond is the direction that the “UK Rhombic” pointed. It was positioned just beyond the foreground green grass.

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Pictures from Tokyo Museum

Taken by a friend visiting the museum recently…no translation to English unfortunately.
ZL2DW

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Old R/T’s Talk

Ray ZL2RB and David ZL2DW will give a talk at the next Br 13 meeting (Wed. 25 May, 7-30pm, Pakowhai Hall) on old R/T’s.

Plessey E3 100mhz AM, 25watt R/T

PYE Cambridge 100mhz AM 7watt R/T

Plessey Ranger HF (1.6 – 8mhz) AM 25watt R/T

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Logics Preamble

At the last Br 13 meeting Ross ZL2WRW gave a talk on SDR…this prompted some historical thoughts/notes from Marilyn ZL2BOA and stirred her into action again.
Here is her historical dissertation

A LECTURE IN LOGICS?

A while ago at a local branch meeting we had an interesting talk on logics. However as I am not at all technically minded, my thoughts soon wandered on to another track parallel to the subject being discussed, and I could see a funny side to this serious topic called logics. The lecture went along the following lines.
The first part was on gates. Gates? Now I don’t know what gates have to do with logics but I got lost at the first one.

LOST AT THE FIRST GATE

AND GATE – ONE THATS THERE      OR GATE – NEITHER HERE OR THERE

NOR GATE – NOT HERE AT ALL      HIGH GATE

LOW GATE      BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW GATES THE GATES GET UNPREDICTABLE

A TRIPLE 5  WOW!

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And here is her last meeting thoughts converted on the matter.

On Offer

Atlas 210X HF Transceiver (100 w solid state 80/40/20/15/10) and Power Supply to suit.
Tempo 1 (FT200) HF Transceiver (240 w valve 80/40/20/15/10)
Matching Ext VFO
Matching Power Supply
SML brand HF SWR Meter (twin meters)
SCE brand ATU
ABJ 6A 12 v DC Power Supply
All offers will be considered
Contact Mike ZL2VM at [email protected]

Rally of Gisborne

Operators needed for the 2nd of July for the above rally.
Contact ZL2VAF John Newson 027 230 3642, 876 0370, [email protected]