A few more words about the June meeting

We covered a few more topics at the meeting:
Visit to Ngaio Venturer Unit by Brian 2BRF, Mark 1VMF and myself.
Brian reported that this went very well, and that he had received other feedback that the boys had enjoyed it. We are keen to run a JOTA station with the group.

Radio Waves project update
Fred reported that 10 kits are going to go soon, and his sub-contractors (Doug and Gavin) are supplying the built up units (tx and rx I think) to Fred. Fred has been invited to speak at more universities over the next few months!

Science in schools
I had a rant about visting my children's schools to look and help with science. I was dismayed to see science fair projects that had no data in log books, others that were just plan stupid get awards. Others that were interesting, original or well done did not get awards. So what goes on to the regional science fair will be about 1/2 absolute rubbish. And some great ones get sent home!

At the primary school, we made electromagets. Yeh right, as the saying goes. The children had less than 1m of very heavy wire, which they wound around a steel nail and powered by a 1.5 C cell. What you and I call a dead short! But the high current and about 20 turns made the nail into a perment magnet! More focus on building the cardboard crane, and yes, they spent the next day painting them pretty colours! My son thinks this is a waste of time....

Delegates report
Conference report, based on the one published in AKL VHF Group's Spectrum magizine. Thanks Ian ZL1AOX.

Website report
Update on this site, and the amazing progress being made. I was reminded to learn to do this, so here I am. More content providers are being added. Look out for AREC very soon.

John