Projects

Club Antenna Erecting

Club members spent a couple of Saturday mornings (one dry, one very wet) erecting the clubs antennas (long wire, HF vertical, on collinear for 6/2/70cms.

Catering department

Allan cooking breakfast

Lee and Keith getting the rope up for the longwire

David testing the antennas

Keith getting ready to fit the steady bracket

Keith fitting the collinear bracket

Break time

Assembling the HF vertical

Finished longwire antenna

Vertical in its final position

Armstrong rotator - for now — Armstrong rotator – for now

HF vertical in place

Getting ready to fit the vertical

Looks good eh?

Steady bar fabricated by Allan

Antenna testing at Keiths

Busy work site

HF vertical

Allans fabricated collinear bracket

Almost there

Giving it a good dose of looking at!

Carefull

Catering department

Moody sky showing the three antennas - hf vertical, longwire, and collinear — Moody sky showing the three antennas – hf vertical, longwire, and collinear

Members will soon have access to 3D printing!

One of the most exciting and challenging aspects of Amateur Radio is projects.

NLWARC has a number of members who enjoy making things from Crystal Sets, through Arduino based projects, to Antenna’s.

Club members are currently working on the following projects:-

Francis Armstrong is working on a Spectrum Analyser.

Cath Singleton has been working with a QFA antenna and software to produce images from weather satellites:

Jim Stansfield is working on a Delta Loop

Lee Layland is working on a portable dual band PSK transceiver and a MAG LOOP controller.

The MAG LOOP controller is a project by Loftur E. Jónasson – TF3LJ / VE2LJX and is documented here.

Bare Circuit Board

All components except chips

Fully populated

Display

Case showing covers for RF

Completed except labels

Fully complete