Breakout 2016 – 06 June

BREAKOUT

The Newsletter of the Hastings and Napier Amateur Radio Clubs

Hastings Branch 13 NZART – Napier Branch 25 NZART   Volume 16, Issue 6 June 2016

Hastings Br [Branch] 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/
Emergency Call-in Frequencies: 3615khz and 670 repeater

Inside This Issue
Hastings Branch 13 Report   Page 2
Napier Branch 25 Report   Page 3
Branch 13/HBARC Meeting 22 June   Page 4
A Lecture on Logics?   Page 5
A Bit of our History   Page 7
Emergency Call-in Net   Page 7

KIWI
ZL
DX GROUP

Photo caption – View of Taraponui (1308m asl., 725 and 405 repeaters) (centre of far silhouette), from Mt Tauhara (1088m asl), Taupo

Hastings Branch 13 NZART – Napier Branch 25 NZART   Page 2   Volume 16, Issue 6 June 2016

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   email [email protected]
David Sullivan ZL2OK   Ph 06 857 8853 wk   email: [email protected]
Ray Barlow ZL2RB   Ph 06 878 6068   email: [email protected]

Hastings QSL Distribution:   Wally Shuker ZL2MO   Ph 8435497   email [email protected]
Magazine Editor:   John Newson ZL2VAF   Ph. 027 230 3642   email [email protected]
NZART License Examiners:   Peter – ZL2LF, Dave – ZL2MQ, Ray – ZL2RB
Club Call:   ZL2AS and ZL2QS

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

From the PART TIME RETIREE

As some of you may have read in the last Infoline we have two NZART Conference/AGM award recipients amongst our members.
Xenia ZL4YL for having “the best AOC exam result under 18 years of age” and Warren ZL2AJ was given a “Certificate of Recognition” for his work in being involved in the establishment of the SOTA award, well done to you both. (We will have a wee presentation to Xenia at the earliest opportunity).

My absence at the last Branch meeting was due to Sue and I having a holiday at the Far North including Auckland, visiting both family and hams, we had a great time.

Over the last three weeks I’ve come out of retirement to take up my old job while the new people take a pre planned holiday. This has kept me occupied to say the least and I’m sure I’ve missed out on some HF day time contacts that I might otherwise have had, I did manage to rush in the door one evening to pick up on a contact that David ZL2OK was “holding” for me…what a hoot.

Please note that there is NO usual Br 13/HBARC meeting in June at the Pakowhai Hall…instead we will be shown around the ABB business at the Napier Airport (7-30pm, 22 June…don’t be late), see the separate note elsewhere (and note the “what to wear” note).

On the 27 July Br 13/HBARC will be having our usual “Donated Junk Auction” at the Pakowhai Hall, after the usual meeting. I give you this early notice so you can clean out your shacks and also save up some pocket money. I’m sure that most of you know the drill by now …you bring your junk along and we auction it back to you for money…ummmmm…well anyway it’s a fun night that helps our club balance sheet and provides us some funds to have a few “nice suppers” and the odd BBQ etc.

Talking of balance sheets it’s looking good and it’s a nice way to keep it. We have a few standing costs that need to be met and fund raising off sets the membership fee that we might otherwise each have to pay. I also remind you that we have a nice amount set aside for “self insurance” reasons and an occasional capital expenditure…we’re doing OK folks.

Don’t let Winter stop your ham radio activities and enjoy them.
73, Rob Leicester (ZL2US)   (President Branch13/HBARC, Hastings)

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

From the Old Goat

Hi all its been another great day here in the bay, why would anyone want to live else where.
The emergency call net that was being run has been discontinued as, if there was an emergency, we would be on the air anyway.
Looking forward to the Gisborne Rally coming up on July 2nd.

Just a bit of trivia –

Polish DXer Dom GRZYB, 3Z9DX. has received conformation that he has authorisation for 5 day op in North Korea. It will be a matter off grab gear and go. No notice will be given prior to him going to P5/3Z9DX. Conditions are SSB one band being ether 20- 15 or 10 while be decided on arrival.
ZY8M These guys will be active from Maracais Is IOTA SA-045 from the 12 -17 July. Active HF SSB HF bands and CW mode. This team is from Brazil. QSL via PT7BI bureau.
John KG4FJC will be active from ADAK Is Iota NA – o39 Alaska on 30 31 August 2016 as KG4FJC-KL7 on 40 and 20 mostly SSB. QSL via home call correct LOTW.
ZY8D radio amateurs from Brazil. will be active from KNARIAS is KAJU ARCHIPELAGO IOTA SA-072 ON 29 – 31 July 2016 as ZY8D on 40 20 15 10 ssb.

73 Wally ZL2MO

Hastings Branch 13 NZART – Napier Branch 25 NZART   Page 4   Volume 16, Issue 6 June 2016

BRANCH 13 / HBARC 22 JUNE MEETING
(NOT at Pakowhai Hall)

ABB is an engineering company operating in the fields of power generation, distribution and automation with over 150,000 employees in over 100 countries. The location in Napier is the so called “Centre of Excellence for Power Conditioning” within ABB. About 130 people develop, manufacture, sell and service products that protect sensitive equipment, tools, production lines or even whole factories from power quality problems. Those can be either coming from the utility end or could be made in-house by their own equipment. All ABB products are based on power electronics and range from about 100 kVA (kilo Volt Ampere) in low voltage (200-480 V/3~) to multi MVA (Mega Volt Ampere) in medium voltage.

We will open the barrier in the front car park at the main entrance to ABB, that should have sufficient parking capacity.

To get to ABB…once you have entered the Napier Airport entry/exit off the highway the road does a 180 degree loop. There is a small road leaving to the left after about 300m into the airport loop road. This one leads to ABB. If you miss it make a loop around the airport car parks and try again.

Remember…there is NO meeting at the Pakowhai Hall on 22 June, instead we meet at the ABB building off the Napier Airport carpark/loop road. Please be on time as the presentation starts promptly at 7-30pm. Wear closed shoes (no jandals etc) and if you have glasses and/or safety glasses bring them.
73 Holger

ABB test set up for conducted RF emissions test

Hastings Branch 13 NZART – Napier Branch 25 NZART   Page 5   Volume 16, Issue 6 June 2016

A LECTURE ON 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.

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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Then came C. Moss. I’m not sure if he came through a gate or not.

Next the subject took a turn towards Flip Flops. Interesting wee things.
Somehow or other these things ended up in a box! Preferably a black one.

Then they got involved with the gates.

After a while logics got mixed up with sinking currents, or was that currants?

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Open drains followed.

and who was this?

I don’t think I’ll be able to forget that talk on Logics.  Who said it was logic?

By Marilyn ZL2BOA.

A bit of our history

(Click the link)
http://knowledgebank.org.nz/739/748/35342

Emergency Call-in Net

It was decided at the March meeting of the Napier ARC to discontinue the Emergency Call-in Net (ECI).

The net was first proposed by Lee ZL2AL(SK) at the February 2015 Branch 25 meeting and was run by Laurie ZL2TC and Dave ZL2DW.

Although participation was considerable initially, numbers have dropped to only a few over the last few months.

It would appear that though many support the concept, to actually interrupt normal activities for a very brief radio call is easily forgotten.

The Napier club suggests that the 670 and 3.615 frequencies are ‘officially’ adopted as the general ‘Ham’ communication channels in case of natural disaster.

This was proposed earlier by Rob ZL2US, see Break-out 3 March 2012.
Karl ZL1TJ Secretary Branch25.