Welcome to my site, my name is Kimberly and I live in Palmerston North, New Zealand, we are aiming to move to Invercargill by the end as of December 2023.

I generally use the shortened version of my name, "Kim" for ease of phonetic spelling and CW :D

After leaving school to become a I.T Support Engineer I eventually chose to study Electrical Engineering and successfully graduated with the New Zealand Diploma in Electrical Engineering (Power Specialisation) L6 or NZDE for short.

As an Electronics Service Technician I fix failed electronic devices and have developed a knack for working with 0402 and smaller surface mount components, along with the removal and replacement of Ball Grid Array (BGA) processors. I've working on everything from Fuel Pumps, display boards to Fishing Torpedo's through to Rat / Stoat Traps and parking systems, down to mobile phones, tablets & CB / Ham Radio transceivers.

I spent several years as a Certified IPC trainer (CIT) for IPC7711/7721B rework, modification and repair of electronic assemblies. In that time and after I have also taught people how to solder PTH and SMD components.

I enjoy repairing electronic assemblies and repairing old and new radio equipment. I would like to one day be able to develop my own home automation system.

I also have very good Information Systems knowledge from Workstations to Servers, Windows and Linux.

I have experience with Windows Domain Servers, Linux Servers (Debian/Red Hat) & have a pretty solid understanding of configuring DNS, Apache, Postfix, Dovecot, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PHP etc.

Most of my development for desktop applications has been for Windows and is done in Visual Studio with either C# or C++.

I have a good working knowledge of electronics along with a good knowledge of embedded firmware on Microchip AVR, PIC16, PIC18, PIC32 and SAM micro-controllers.

Embedded firmware is written in C/C++ using either Microchip Studio for AVR/SAM devices and MPLab-X for the range of PIC devices.

I obtained my Amateur Radio licence in July 2017 originally as ZL2KEJ, since then I have built various home made HF and V/UHF antenna that I have used on air with good success.

In May of 2021 I applied for the secondary callsign of ZL4KJ which I intend to make my primary in the near future.

I use home made Baluns and UnUn's to achieve great results with HWEF along with inverted V antenna.

Currently working on an EFHW for 80m-15m for CW for field operation. Currently have a G5RV (pretty sure its been bodged before I got it as it's not full size, nor is it mini). I'm looking making a new Multi-band inverted Vee for 80m, 60m, 40m & 20m for the QTH

Using a 10m Half Wave Vertical as well as a dual band V/UHF dipole for 2m/70cm.

Having spent the past couple of years on and off with FT8 I am currently in the process of learning Morse code so I can get on the air with CW in the near future. I have deleted WSJT-x so will no longer use the mode.

Also delving back into Amateur Astronomy after having dug my backyard telescope out of the box it was stored in for the past 10 years. I'm Currently planning on it's upgrade in the future.

I am currently off-air for HF but I am occasionally floating around mobile on 146.4570MHz.

Hope to catch you around the bands.

73,

ZL4KJ