Meeting Information

• General Meeting: General Meeting, the first Wednesday of each month starting at 19:30 hours.
• Projects evenings / Technical Night on second & fourth Wednesdays at 19:30 hours.
• Any fifth Wednesday reserved for AREC meeting at 19:30 hrs.
• Committee Meeting: every third Wednesday of each month at 19:30 hrs

Weekly Net's on Air:

• ZL1VK on VHF - Auckland 6625 repeater (146.625MHz) Sunday mornings starting at 08:00 hours, local time.
Followed by
• ZL1VK on HF - 80m 3.755 which is also linked via the VHF Repeater (146.675Mhz) and on the UHF Repeater (438.775), with both links requiring a CTCSS Tone of 141.3 on Tx.
  NOTE: Due to QRM on 80m, we are experimenting on changing the HF net to 40m 7.095 now daylight saving has ended to see if signals improve. Listen on the VHF net for the announcements for the HF frequency the net will be using.
  The HF net starts at 09:00 hours local time, or following the VHF net, should the net be running late.

NOTE: If the 6625 repeater is not available or offline, please listen on 146.475MHz FM simplex.

Visitors.

All visitors are welcome to attend any of our Wednesday nights, main meeting or project / technical nights.
Please remember to make yourself known once you arrive.

What's happening next time at the Clubrooms.

Wednesday 12th August is a Project /Technical night.

See you there.

Next Project / Technical Night.

Wednesday 12th August.

If you have any project / repair that you need help on or something of interest to show, please bring it along.
There should be someone there that can help or advise.

This will start at 7.30pm

SEPTEMBER 2026 MAIN MEETING.

Our next General Meeting will be on the 2nd September

This Months Topic: 10 Minute Talks
Speaker: TBA
See the club's newsletter for more details when it comes out.

UPCOMING MAIN MEETING.

October's Main meeting will be on the 2nd October

Topic: Planning for Open Day on 17th October 2026
Speaker: David ZL1DK.

⚠ Important Notice! ⚠

UPCOMING EVENTS for OCTOBER 2026.

The Papakura Radio Club is Planning an OPEN DAY On Saturday the 17th October 2026

Please save the date in your diary.
That Saturday the Papakura Radio Club are planning to show live demonstrations of Amateur Radio, being held from 10.00 am right through the day and into the early evening.
Watch this space for updates

• Demonstrations including HF (high frequency) communications over SSB (single sideband - voice), CW (morse code), FT8 (digital mode).


• There will also be demonstrations of VHF (very-high frequency) and UHF (ultra-high frequency) radios over simplex (radio to radio or direct line of sight) and repeaters (radio to repeater/repeater to radio) to increase distances of communications.


• On VHF we will have a repeater in action and over UHF we will have a link to the Winlink network.
  Winlink is a system where we can send messages for emergency communications.
  
  
• There will also be an active workshop where all the construction / repairs are carried out.
  On the construction side, we will be making a J-Pole antenna to suit the 2 metre band out of 300 Ohm TV ribbon...


• There will be static displays of SSTV (slow scan television), examples of earlier radio used by amateur radio operators, some modified for amateur use, and some commercially available.

PROJECT KITS.

There are a few AllStar kits still available, so if you are interested please let me know.
The cost of the kit is $35
Full details of the kit is listed in the link below. NOTE: You will still need to supply a Raspberry Pi and UHF Radio. We are using the Baofeng BF888S, David ZL1DK has a few of these left at $30 to club Members.
Everything you need to know is listed on this website under projects/Allstar, or click on the link below.
AllStarLink Building your Node

ZL1VK Kitsets Still available.

• Anderson Power Pole Distribution (PCB Only) $5.00
• 2 into 1 Headphone set switching between radios. (PCB Only) $5.00
• USB Radio Interface for Digital modes. Complete Kit. $69.00
• Tait Radio TM8100 Series VFO head unit with 100 memories. $120.00
• Tait Radio VFO Escutcheon. (Clips onto the main radio and used with the above Tait kit)(Sold separately) $15.00

The above kits are supplied by David ZL1DK
If you missed out on these projects or would like to build one then contact David directly via email on ZL1DK (Just click on his callsign) to email your interest to David.

Please state which kit you are interested in.

Other Kits available.

Contact Rob ZL1RJS who is running the below projects.

• Diplexer kits Complete $35.00
• AllStar Kits (Requires Raspberry Pi & Radio + Case) $35.00 See the AllStar Project for more details

If you missed out on these projects or would like to build a kit, then please contact Rob directly via email on ZL1RJS (Just click on my callsign) to email your interest.

Please state which kit you are interested in.

The diplexer can run 2 aerials, VHF and UHF into 1 radio or 1 dual band antenna which goes to 2 radios, VHF and UHF

Upcoming projects

Voice Keyer by Keith ZL1BQE
Keith is still developing and fine tuning this project, and will be available soon.

If you have any projects you would like to see, or ideas for a project, but not sure how to do it, then please forward your request or idea to the club to take a look or advise.

There is always something going on at the club, so please come along for a visit.

Watch this space for further updates.
73 de Rob ZL1RJS