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Monday night we snuck into Ashhurst, grabbed some dinner from the Fish and Chip shop across the street, and then set up for a cuppa at the hall. Cheryl ZL2VCC and Max ZL2MAX then gave us a run down on the history of the group, the show setup with the sound and lighting control. Very interesting night and cool to see the behind the scenes setup of the show.

Assembling some of the component and software in the case for the new D-star repeater for North Range Road.

Great evening out at Jack's place, certainly good to see what a dipole looks like in a straight line and not angled oddly for a small back section.

Charlie ZL2CTM demoed some of his homebrew radios. He has given the link below as a great text for homebrew.  Solid State Design For The Radio Amateur 1986 https://archive.org/details/SolidStateDesignForTheRadioAmateur1986/page/n3/mode/2up

Great weekend had out at Kopane Schools Field.

Sunday Fox Hunt Results. 1st Pete ZL2AUB 40 mins 2nd Damon ZL1ELC 43 mins 3rd Barry ZL2BJA 46 mins 4th Jack ZL2JAK 54 mins 5th Ian ZL2IAN 55 mins 6th Richard ZL2RGB 56 mins Fox was Ryan ZL1RKW @ Rangitane Park

Saturday 7th December saw the end of year get together for the Manawatu Amateur Radio Soc Christmas Beano at the RNZ Navalmans Club in Palmerston. As well as the great nosh-up that was had, there was presentations made and it was all finished off with a quiz made up of 30 questions, 20 general knowledge and 10 Amateur Radio related. Teams of 4 to 5 answered the questions in lots of 10 questions and then passed their answer sheet to another team for marking. Adam ZL2FOX was once again the M.C.and provided some entertainment along the way. I must be a lucky charm because I have been on the winning team 3 out of the last 4 years. Thanks for the winning teams chocolates Adam, they went down a treat. Allan ZL2SKY

Final afternoon gathering of the year.