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Projects & Project Evenings. Current Projects & Project Evenings. 2nd Wednesday and some Tuesdays in the month.
These evenings at held at the clubrooms and start at 7.30pm.
Projects evenings for 2003 will continue with evenings as we have had in the past
years. The Technical Projects will be running during the year also. We will have
some meetings at our clubrooms for revision and hands-on sessions but mostly
we will use an E-mail reflector to keep everyone participating in the
communications loop.These evenings cover a wide range of topics and are productive including
sometimes live on-air sessions. At present we are looking at the computers in the
radio shack and what we need to do to have remote access to the HF radio and
antenna system. The club now has two computers that are capable of networking
and one of these will be linked to the HF radio. This is to be an on going process,
not expected to be complete quickly.Project evenings are held on the second Wednesdays of the month and start at
7.30pm.The clubs radio station will be available for club members on this and other
meeting nights.The Club also has seen the EchoLink system start up over the month of July
2003. Members have been busy establishing a link station onto the EchoLink
system. This allows members to access the EchoLink system both from home or
while mobile. The station is located on Red Hill and with transmitter on 147.325
repeater. The height of this repeaterprovides very good coverage around the
greater Auckland Area.EchoLink info.The New Zealand EchoLink Server came online Sunday 21st March 2004 at
around 6.15pm local). This offers users to benifit of fast Internet connection into
the system. The server also offers multi connection. Individuals, Link stations
and Repeaters can all connect at the same time. Up to 300 stations can be
connected at the same time but this has been limited to 30 initially. More
information on the Server can be found at EchoLink info.
Papakura Technical Projects.This is a series of projects available to members and other interested amateur radio operators
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Papakura Technical Projects Enter your email address: A service provided by SmartGroups Current Technical Project.
The current project started on Wednesday November 12, 2003 and covers Power Supplies. Members of this group are building their own Power Supply units. They are varied in size and therefore construction. This project will be run with the aid of an e-mail reflector. Question and answer e-mails will be forwarded to all subscibers so everyone is kept in the loop.The link above will direct you to the e-mail reflector site.
Past Technical Projects.
The first was based around the Maxon Handheld radio's that are available.
These projects followed on from the articles on the Maxon modifications which can be found here. Maxon info.
The Microprocessor education or training sessions have also been run during 2003 by the Papakura Radio Club. We were lucky to have three members who work with Micro's on a regular basis and their knowledge was passed on during these mirco evenings. The microprocessor we are working with is the Atmel AT90S2313 processor. Micro Evening info.
Future Technical Projects. Initial meeting of all interested in MAXON mods is to be held at our Clubrooms starting 7.30pm.
A culmination of the 2003 series. Following on from the successful 2003 series, we will be running a practical session on Microprocessors and the Maxon Radio. There are so many ideas that the Maxon can be used for and with the Microprocessor interface and control, the possibilities are unlimited. This will be a series to become involved in. This Technical Project will also be enhanced by the e-mail reflector. Keep your eye on this page or the Maxon page. Maxon info.
UPDATE.... March 09, 2004. The first in the 2004 Maxon series workshops. Simon showed us the ease in replacing the Maxon aerial connector with a BNC connector. Well, easy for some, the job had been avoided by many of us to this demonstration. It was no such an herendious task. Allocation time was the major requirement. Emails from the US tells us that these projects are watched with interest from afar as well. Maxon info.
UPDATE.... March 23, 2004. The second in the 2004 Maxon series workshops. Harry, ZL1BK took us on a trip into the regulation of both the Handheld and the Data radios. Harry discussed Mic and PTT applications, the Voltage regulation or restriction and skimmed over the protocol chip insertion for a following workshop. Keith ZL1BQE shows 6 boards that had been modified to accept the chip. (He lost the lot on the night!. He would like the replaced board in exchange, at least.) Maxon info.
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