Hamilton Amateur Radio Club (Inc.) Branch 12 – NZART Jock White Memorial Field days 2008
Back to main page	The Jock White Memorial Field Days contest is an annual NZART Contest for NZART Branches and members. The objectives of the contest are for NZART Branches and Members to contact as many others as possible during each operating period of the contest. The Contest is held during the last full weekend in February each year, and there are 9 operating periods on each day of the contest. The Contest takes place on both 80 and 40 metre bands using both Morse and voice modulation.
	The intention of field days is for Branches to operate from a portable setup. Branch 12 used 2 tents; one for 80M and one for 40M. Power requirements were obtained from 2 portable generators and a number of sealed lead acid batteries. The rigs used were a Kenwood TS-430S on 80M and a Yaesu FT-747GX (Saturday) and an Icom IC-718 (Sunday) on 40M.
				Photo: ZL1UD
	Photo: ZL1UD	Branch 12 used 2 dipole antennas for Field Days. Both antennas used are multi band (80/40) dipoles with plug in links to change bands/ frequencies. The 40M antenna (pictured) was specifically designed for Awards Net frequencies, thus 7.06MHz is one cut. This makes it ideal for 40M Operation. The 80M antenna is cut for 3.55MHz, 3.85MHz and 7.1MHz, and therefore using the full length antenna (3.55MHz) makes it ideal for Field Day Operation.
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	The photo (right) shows Fin (ZL4HI) operating the 80M station on Sunday, with Tony (Non Transmitting) logging calls. The Club Station was managed by Phil; ZL1PK, and other operators were ZL1IC; Robin, ZL1DGK; David, ZL1TNO; Terry, ZL4QJ; Sutton, ZL1GWP; Gavin, ZL4HI; Fin, ZL1AZZ; Paul, ZL1UPJ; Jono. The station was visited by ZL3WPS; Warren, and his Mum, ZL1UCT; Jim, ZL1TCE; David, Syiad; (NT), and ZL1UD; Tony, who took the photo’s for this webpage.
			Photo: ZL1UD
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