The Quartz Hill User Group has been searching for some time for a suitable location for re-establishing an HF DX and Contesting site in the bottom half of the North Island of New Zealand. A key consideration has been site area.

This paper by the Convenor of QHUG provides a reconsideration of the site area requirement and the kinds of antennas for the low HF bands that should be considered.

At a meeting of the QHUG Committee on 30 July 2014 the key ideas in this paper were accepted. A review of our site requirements document is under way, and all previously identified sites will be reassessed, and revisited as needed to see if any sites meet our revised requirements.

The paper can be downloaded here.

Posted by ZL1AXG on July 31, 2014