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Papakura Radio Club Inc

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Branch 65



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Papakura Radio Club Inc

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.
      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.

Next Wednesday is a Project /Technical night.


See you there.

Next Project / Technical Night.

The next Projects Evening is the Wednesday 25th March
We will be finishing off the AllStar Project.


There are a few kits still available, so if you are interested please come along.
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
This will start at 7.30pm

APRIL 2026 MAIN MEETING.

Our April Meeting is on the 1st April

This Months Topic: All about Crystals.
Speaker: David ZL1MR
See the club's newsletter for more details when it comes out.

UPCOMING MAIN MEETING.

May's Main meeting will be on the 6th May

Topic and Speaker, TBA.

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






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