tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75006045890047427502012-02-01T19:37:12.185+13:00Branch 26 NZARTSteve zl2ascnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500604589004742750.post-58886857369789432622009-03-16T10:21:00.501+13:002012-02-01T19:37:12.197+13:00The Nelson Amateur Radio ClubPO BOX 414 NELSON<br />last update 31-01-2012 <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">President - Paul ZL2PO - <a href="mailto:zl2po@clear.net.nz">zl2po@clear.net.nz</a> </div><div align="center">Secretary - Jim ZL2BHF - <a href="mailto:jim.m@clear.net.nz">jim.m@clear.net.nz</a> <br />Treasurer - Peter ZL2PHS - <a href="mailto:phsam@ihug.co.nz">phsam@ihug.co.nz</a><br />BLOGGER - Steve ZL2ASC - <a href="mailto:stevedenton@xtra.co.nz">stevedenton@xtra.co.nz</a><br />Repeater Trustees - Bob ZL2RP<br /> - Dave Zl2BCA<br /> </div><div align="center"> Farewell Friend<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ONsJJNygYxw/TuQwbXdTatI/AAAAAAAABqg/qLxkrLK8n20/s1600/BRIAN+ZL3BCO.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ONsJJNygYxw/TuQwbXdTatI/AAAAAAAABqg/qLxkrLK8n20/s320/BRIAN+ZL3BCO.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Brian ZL3BCO became a silent key on Monday 31st Jan.<br /><br />7025 has become very quiet.<br /><br />His funeral will be at 11am Friday 3rd Feb at the Wakapuaka Chapel</div><div align="center"><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Come to Conference 2012</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">*** In Hamtastic Nelson ***</span><br /><a href="https://acrobat.com/#d=i1RKFZ-HcbbbUoai4n5tkQ" target="_blank">Click here</a> to download a registration form<br /><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><div align="center"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_13259129381332399"><span style="color: black;">The Club BBQ at Snowdens Bush</span><br /><div class="yiv2135947172MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">A good ol natter<br />Good Food<br />Good Company<br />and we all know how to play Kubb now<br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">( Some pics taken from the air from ZL2ASC's model helicopter )</span><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W4EEd_tKv8U/TxKHhKSWeqI/AAAAAAAABq8/h92ln9YJ6q0/s1600/1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W4EEd_tKv8U/TxKHhKSWeqI/AAAAAAAABq8/h92ln9YJ6q0/s320/1.JPG" width="320" /></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JPhO08lPWbM/TxKHijo0s7I/AAAAAAAABrE/1HT8TAHrpLw/s1600/2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JPhO08lPWbM/TxKHijo0s7I/AAAAAAAABrE/1HT8TAHrpLw/s320/2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_k8vFeIwXQM/TxKHkCc9BuI/AAAAAAAABrM/YKmTsxzSaq0/s1600/3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_k8vFeIwXQM/TxKHkCc9BuI/AAAAAAAABrM/YKmTsxzSaq0/s320/3.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7OBsnPPKp_U/TxKHlmNex9I/AAAAAAAABrU/AniwZxBcvzs/s1600/4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7OBsnPPKp_U/TxKHlmNex9I/AAAAAAAABrU/AniwZxBcvzs/s320/4.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />.<br />.<br />A photo from the past<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WuMBkQEH68A/TxW7Np7-AgI/AAAAAAAABr8/BLAm3FVZhKo/s1600/Doubles_group+by+truck%2523EBE4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WuMBkQEH68A/TxW7Np7-AgI/AAAAAAAABr8/BLAm3FVZhKo/s320/Doubles_group+by+truck%2523EBE4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div></div></div></span><br /><div align="center"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_13259129381332399"><div class="yiv2135947172MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Do you recognise anyone in this photo ?</span><br /><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z7kDgxOKk-Q/TkOiED-D0GI/AAAAAAAABo0/NXwy0se05Ow/s1600/BI-Ad_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z7kDgxOKk-Q/TkOiED-D0GI/AAAAAAAABo0/NXwy0se05Ow/s400/BI-Ad_3.jpg" width="349" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Stepper motor driven by a selector switch</u></span></div><br />An interesting article appeared in the latest Breakin. pg 9 (Nov-Dec 2011) by John ZL3IB. A clever way of driving a stepper motor using a simple multiposition switch. I had a fossic in my junk box for some bits and put it together. It works very well and would be great if you want to get remote control of a tuning capacitor for your latest loop antenna. cheers - Steve (ZL2ASC)<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Below is a video of it in action.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-34c705acd2247dde" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v14.nonxt7.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D34c705acd2247dde%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330441587%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3DD043621A4D2D88900B8452BFB32CEE253D3D6E4.3AF8C9BC326D878C5A5301B6AD23FF44BAA9FF7A%26key%3Dck1&iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D34c705acd2247dde%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DKYmwOo2AHe8TFxgA7pwqDvHL4C8&autoplay=0&ps=blogger"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v14.nonxt7.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D34c705acd2247dde%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330441587%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3DD043621A4D2D88900B8452BFB32CEE253D3D6E4.3AF8C9BC326D878C5A5301B6AD23FF44BAA9FF7A%26key%3Dck1&iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D34c705acd2247dde%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DKYmwOo2AHe8TFxgA7pwqDvHL4C8&autoplay=0&ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><strong><span style="font-size: 130%;">Local Nelson Info</span></strong> <span style="font-size: 130%;">:</span></u></span></div></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">. </span>The most popular repeater in Nelson is the 147.025 repeater, it's the meeting place for most of the local activity.</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">. </span>The Club runs a couple of nets : The HF net on Sunday Mornings at 9am 3890kHz, and the Nag Net ( Nelson Amateur Girls )on Wednesday Nights at 7:30pm on the 147.025 repeater.</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">. </span>The local APRS frequency is <strong>144.575</strong>. </span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">. </span>We have a fill-in Digi-iGate at Observatory Hill (ZL2SUN), thanks to Gary ZL3SV for the use of the Observatory Hill site. There is a wide-area Digi on Takaka Hill.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Dun-l_-J9Go/SonEmywxEfI/AAAAAAAAA2g/ZvI6fw9_RF0/s1600-h/P8090002.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371040201356415474" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Dun-l_-J9Go/SonEmywxEfI/AAAAAAAAA2g/ZvI6fw9_RF0/s400/P8090002.JPG" style="height: 185px; width: 400px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grampians Site looking back from Viewing Platform </td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Dun-l_-J9Go/TOmPGUYhf-I/AAAAAAAABf8/urXa4A8A9PM/s1600/Mt+Campbell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="72" ox="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Dun-l_-J9Go/TOmPGUYhf-I/AAAAAAAABf8/urXa4A8A9PM/s400/Mt+Campbell.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mt Campbell - Nelson on the right and Takaka on the left</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7500604589004742750-5888685736978943262?l=branch26nzart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Steve zl2ascnoreply@blogger.com0