====== Upcoming Meetings ====== We'd love you to come along and take part in our next club night! This page contains details of upcoming meetings. Events are subject to change. ^Date ^What's Happening^ |15th May|Neil ZL4UC - Getting 4WD's stuck on the West Coast trip| |22nd May|Dave ZL4DK - Amateur radio astronomy| |29th May|Shag Valley - Update| |1/2nd June|NZART Conference - Christchurch| |5th June|Neil ZL4UC - Installing a solar system in the Marlbourgh Sounds| |12th June|Committee| |19th June|Martin ZL4JH. Henderson. Auckland’s biggest AM radio transmitter site and helping build a 15 port high power multi coupler| |26th June|AGM| |3rd July|Allan ZL4MD - Back yard HF antennas| |10th July|Committee| |17th July|Martin ZL4JH. GPS and the errors lost people make reading them and how to convert between formats - or - why we sometimes cannot find missing people or boats where they think they are.| |24th July|Peter ZL4LV with an early history of radio leading to the famous Shag Valley Station communication between Frank Bell and Cecil Goyder.| |31st July|Martin ZL4JH. Some practical work on duplexers and filters with a WVNA. These are totally affordable devices that can easily do the work of older more expensive Network Anaysers| |7th August|N1MM - this is the logging system we will use at Shag valley. Bring your laptop and we will have a practical training session.| |14th August|Committee| |21st August|Neil ZL4UC - Building a 23cm aerial| |28th August| |4th September| |11th September|Committee| |18th September|N1MM refresher| |25th September| |2nd October| |5th October Sat|Working bee at Shag Valley Station to clean up, prepare and rig antenna| |9th October|Committee| |12th October|Start of the week of activities. Bring the radios and get them all installed and going and then start operating. |16th October|Wednesday night at Shag Valley - car pooling| |18th October|Shag Valley Centenary of the first Trans-World radio contact| We extend to you a warm welcome to attend our meetings and join our branch. Visitors are always welcome! [[zl4aa:contact-us|Call in and see us]] Wednesday evenings Club open at 7-30 - events start at 8pm. We meet weekly throughout the year except Christmas to mid-January.