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March 2008, that's around the time I joined KARTS, Clive ZS6BT had found Mario and I on CB Radio, and invited us to do an introductory ZU course that had just been introduced, the numbers of Ham Radio operators in the country was failing sharply, with little to no new comers coming into the hobby. Having passed the ZU course, I took on the Call Sign ZU6ET
ET, being my nick name 😀 it still is.
ZU limited us to 20 watts and a limited spectrum of the HF band, we also had limited access to 2m and 70 cm's
I remember Clive shaking my hand, his words, congratulations, now when are you writing the ZR?
The picture below is of our ZU Class, in September 2008, most of the students had come from CB Radio, and now wanted to be HAMS...
Can anyone help to identify all the students?
Paul ZS6PJC was part of the training team, Paul now SK, normally taught the electronic component subjects, like transformers, Resistance, Capacitance and Inductance. the primary and secondary coils of a transformer etc.
Paul assisted the club with training for many of those early years.
Some students the I can recall:
Johan, ZS6DMX, Heinrich ZU6ECC, Martin ZS6TMN (SK) Ben, and Veronique ZS6VER
In 2008, Hannes ZS6LW, was the Chairman of KARTS, with Clive ZS6BT the secretary, and Vivian ZS6VD the Technical officer.
Hannes moved to New Zealand round about this time, I'm not sure if it was in 2008 or 2009, but I did not know him long. https://www.qrz.com/db/ZL1LW
Back in the day, we had a UHF Repeater on 438.925 MHz, its located on top of the Trustbank building in the centre of town. It was a STORNO Repeater.
Some activities from 2009
16 June 2009 – Youth Day – Johan and Stephen setup 2 x HF Radio’s and Vivian setup a Echolink station
20 June 2009 – Vivian held a “ Electronics Project afternoon “ – Team build CTCSS kits
26 June 2009 – Stephen held a “ Are you brave enough evening “ – Team worked AO51 Satellite
8 August 2009 – Stephen and the gang got together to try and track BACAR at the club house
CQ Hoerkoers – Oct 09
See, we already had Echolink in 2009 😀
ZS4 Sprint - 24 May 2009
Anything look familiar?
Is that Tim ZS6IM? Who is that with him?
Johnny, doing his HF Assessment at another of KARTS venues at Impala. This was for his ZU license.
Team in attendance:
Stephen ZR6MRC, Mario ZU6TAN, Clive ZS6BT, Vivian ZS6VD, Ruben ZR6RJV, Brian ZR6BN (SK) Dave ZS6UD Tim ZS6IM and Nico ZS6QL, two others in attendance, don't recognize them...
It was a cold night in June 2009, it was dark, it was a Friday night, and we were at the club to try to work AO-51.
Here's Ruben ZR6RJV having a QSO on the bird.
We were very active in 2009
20 June - Here's Clive ZS6BT constructing a CTCSS Tone board.
Here's Vivian ZS6VD, getting ready to set the tone level of our CTCSS board, we manufactured many of these, and even sold them to Hams across the country.
This one was getting installed into a Midland Syntech Radio, belonging to the club.
Is that Johan ZS6NJJ in the background? 🙂
8 August 2009, we didn't let the cold weather deter us.
Here's the team tracking BACAR at the clubhouse.
Recognize anyone?
We did it in 2009, we've done it over the years, and we'll do it again in October this year.
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