Club News

ZL VHF History

This link to the ZL VHF History website was received from John ZL2TWS: "a record of some of our club members' activities on various pages."

http://zlvhfhistory.yolasite.com/

Article: Receiving D-Star signals from space

Two articles originally published in Break-In and written by John ZL2TWS have been published publicly on our D-Star page. The articles cover the reception of signals from the D-Star ONE satellite.

Repeater and beacon updates

• ZL2MHF Upper Hutt 28.229 MHz Beacon is now installed at the Branch 63 club rooms. It is sending 10 W FSK-CW into a horizontal end feed 1/2-wave antenna.

• 395 6 m FM half wave dipole rebuilt and LDF-450 coax feeder cable faulty connector replaced. Normal operation has resumed.

• 1292 23 cm FM ID beacons every 15 minutes with "ZL2VH E E E E E ZL2VH". See the repeaters page for more details on how to access this repeater.

2023 QST63 Newsletter

QST63 is the official newsletter of NZART Branch 63, the Upper Hutt Amateur Radio Club. Since June 2021, it is a quarterly publication, and was previously a monthly issue.

• December
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• June
• March

2022 QST63 Newsletter

• December
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• June
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2021 QST63 Newsletter

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• April
• March
• February

Archived QST63

The entire QST63 archive can be accessed here.

D-Star newsletter

The current D-Star scene newsletters from 2023 onwards can be read and downloaded from here.

A monthly newsletter ran from 2015 to 2017, centred on the D-Star scene in New Zealand. You can browse the back catalogue.