2002 News:
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December 2002
The repeater is back on air after cleaning & repairing the rat damage. A rebuilt PA (ex commercial UHF TV driver amp) is giving a much stronger signal. Several Amatuers have been on air after the a few months downtime. A meeting at Michael ZL1ABS house saw a new 23cm beam fitted up a 5 metre pole.
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July
From Quentin ZL1QF:
RATS, Ch39 off air.
Yes, big'uns all in our ATV rack. 1QF and 1VWM had to kick em out- around
five of them! I did manage to toss one out the door and it hit the car
then ran off!
I have temp decommissioned the atv repeater and brought all the units back to clean them. Tonight they all got a good dose of ammonia Handy- Andy.(not the rats worst luck!).
TV will be off untill we mount a clean up expedition to clean the rack and floor.
The beacons have not been affected and are still running. Actually the tv
repeater was ok and the fault was a broken coax between the driver unit and
PA stage. Possibly our little friends had knocked it about. Luckily alot of
sealed units had helped the units withstand being piddled on!
Now the whole TV repeater is at 1qf's shack some work will be done on some
parts that need attention.
Keeping u uptodate,
73 zl1qf.
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May
There was a well attended meeting at Bruce ZL1BLB's house at Glendene on the last Sunday of April. Bruce has relocated his ham shack since we last visited and has his collection of antique AM radio receivers on display. Putting the tower up and getting the ATV gear on to 23cm has yet to happen.
The Wellington VHF Group inc. have a new web site www.vhf.d2g.com for anyone interested.
Auckland ATVers are to attend the Cambridge Market Day on Saturday 11 May.
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FMTAG have published the Form 10 application for the Whangarei ATV Repeater in Jan/Feb Break In magazine. This is a step along the way to a license being issued. Grant ZL1WTT is continuing to work on the Whangarei ATV transmitter.
A visit was undertaken to the Whitford ATV Repeater site. A Dynalink Satellite receiver for 23cm was installed for a three month trial. The 23cm Transmitter had the PLL filter modification actioned. A connector problem behind the 23cm receiving aerial panel was fixed. The default receiver link from the ZL1BQ ATV Repeater on 50cm (channel 39 UHF) was re-established.
There were activities on air over the holidays and a meeting in January 2002 there was a meeting held at the Auckland VHF Group inc. club rooms. Henry ZL1AAN received further assistance in testibng and tuning his new 23cm FMTV transmitter. The PLL filter was modified to the latest component values which prevent bouncing on Black/White transitions.
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12 December 2001
Grant ZL1WTT hosted the November ATV meeting from his new location in Pakuranga.
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