NZART Break-In Contents For 2011

Update 2011-06-08

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BREAK-IN CONTENTS May/June 2011 Volume 84 Number 3 

Technical

4 A homemade 4:1 balun Ian Boot ZLITXZ
6 Using 4nec2 antenna software; a tutorial David Conn VE3KI
10 Amateur interaction with the COMPASS-1 satellite Alan Cresswell ZL2BX
13 Review; The bhi-NEDSP-1062 noise reduction unit Eion Gibson ZL3AG
14 Review of current resistor technology Peter Bower GM3OFT

General

16 Knight's Point mini-VHF DXpedition David Mulder ZL4DK
29 ZL Crossword No.l2 (answers p32) Graeme Hunt ZL1ANH

Cover Photograph Peter Johnson ZL4LV's two 16 element, Yagi antennas. (Photo ZL4LV)

Regular Features

30 AREC
19 Around the Branches
29 Awards
3 BI 50 Years Ago
33 Centests
20 Digital Modes
30 DX Downunder
25 FMTAG
2 From the Editor
3 From the President
40 Hamads
39 Ionospherioc Predictions
33 Letters to Editor
22 Longer Wavlengths
28 Magazine Survey
8 Monitoring Service
11 Morseman
3 New members
15 Old Timers Club
37 QSL Bureau
34 Silent Keys
35 SPAM
26 VHF Scene
38 WARO

PAST ISSUES OF BREAK-IN

Indexes for past volumes of Break-In from 1949 to the present are available on the NZART website;

<http://www.nzart.org.nz/h-quarter/break-in/>

BREAK-IN CONTENTS March/April 2011 Volume 84 Number 2 

Technical

4 Amateur use of Time Domain Reflectometry, revisited

6 Full-bridge connection ot LM386 ICs Gary Henderson ZL1TBH

7 Workshop Hints and Kinks

General

3 NZART Elections 2011; results

5 Radio in the NZ Post Office; Part 3 Reg Motion ZL2LX

8 Results of Break-In readership survey; Jan/Feb 2011

9 How I passed my amateur radio theory examination Aidan Barnsdale ZL2APB

10 Cape Reinga mini-VHF microwave DXpedition 2011 Stephen Hayman ZL1TPH

18 NZART AGM agenda, Annual Reports and Remits

34 NZART Conference information and registration form

ZL Crossword No.11 (answers p52) Graeme Hunt ZL1ANH

Regular Features

45 AREC

47 Around the Branches

44 Awards

40 BI 50Years Ago

44 Contests

12 Digital Modes

15 DX Downunder

2 From the Editor

3 From the President

52 Hamads

40 IARU

51 Ionospheric Predictions

41 Letters to Editor

48 Longer Wavelengths

36 Morseman

14 New members

49 Old Timers Club

39 Satellite-Orbits

38 Silent Keys

16 SPAM

42 VHF Scene

50 WARO

PAST ISSUES OF BREAK-IN

Indexes for past volumes of Break-In from 1949 to the present are available on the NZART website <http://www.nzart.org.nz/breakin/index/index.html>

COVER PHOTOGRAPH

Cover photograph: Bronze sculpture of the logo of UPPER HUTT, the fantail, at the north and south ends of the Upper Hutt CBD

Photo by Simon Eatough ZL2BRG

VOLUME 84 NO. 1 January/February 2011 

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CONTENTS OF BREAK-IN OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NZART 2011

TECHNICAL

• 8 Building trapped dipole antennas for the HF bamds David Conn VE3KL
• 16 Homemade 2m/70cm dual band flexible amtenna lan Boot ZLITXZ

GENERAL

• 3 Copyright notice
• 4 NZART Council elections; candidates biographies
• 7 NZ DX Hail of Fame
• 12 Radiotek; a day of radio technology Kelvin Barnsdale ZL3KB
• 13 Radio in the NZ Post Office; Part 2 Reg Motion ZLZLX
• 22 VH Convention
• 29 NZART Conference 2011
• 35 ZL Crossword No.10 (answers p42) Graeme Hunt ZLIANH
• Insert (i - iv) Break-In Readership Survey

REGULAR FEATURES

PAST ISSUES OF BREAK-IN

Indexes for past volumes of Break-In from 1947 to the present are available on the NZART website:
h-quarter/break-in/yearly-content-index/

COVER PHOTOGRAPH

Harry ZLIBK on Mount Ruapehu in the December 2010 VHF Field Day Contest