North Range Road Maintenance – Thursday 8th January 2026
Successful day today. WSPR antenna back up - new SS rope Equipment rack swapped 7125 Rx antenna fixed - faulty RG213 tail at top of mast Hut cleaned Installed another climbing peg More tasks and touches to go. We have had one of the power supply's fail and the batteries are not happy, so we may experience some issues. A fixing trip is planned for Saturday. Thanks today to: Scott ZL2FX Lachie ZL2XD Charlie ZL2CTM Graeme ZL2GZ Ryan ZL1RKW On Saturday morning we made the fixes to North Range Road so everything is back to normal. Batteries swapped, second power supply restored, comms fixed, door latch finished (for now) and gate latch improved. Thanks on Saturday to: Charlie ZL2CTM Warren ZL2FE Andrew ZL2ENG Ryan ZL1RKW
Workshop Night – Monday 10th November 2025
A nosy at a speaker amp that had a chip fail, making antenna baluns and digital and D-Star radio overview.
Activity Contest 2025
The activity contest is coming up starting from Friday 17th October 2025 to Tuesday 21st October 2025 (inclusive). See the Activity Contest 2025 page for details.
Fox Hunt – Sunday 28th September 2025
Kaimanawa Park 1st Jack ZL2JAK 23 mins 2nd Pete ZL2AUB 40mins The rest followed
Workshop Night – Monday 25th August 2025
More TYT MD-UV390's were programmed, testing Nano VNA on duplexer and a general chat.
Fox Hunt – Sunday 24th August 2025
Fox Location: Kanuka Grove Park 1st Ryan ZL1RKW - 31m 2nd Charlie ZL2CTM - 32m 3rd Pete ZL2AUB - 1hr 3m 4th Jeremy ZL2DEF - 1hr 10m 5th Hugh ZL2BFB and Alice ZL2AJW - 1hr 17m
Workshop Night – Monday 11th August 2025
TYT MD-UV390's were firmware upgraded and programmed. Antenna ideas were discussed.
