May is the time for remits. The Committee has looked at the remits and made comments further in this Q-Bit. Please bring your Break In to the meeting. We will also be appointing a delegate for the AGM, and will discuss any issues members may want the delegate to put forward from the floor.

Stuart Watchman ZL2TW, President of NZART will be giving a talk on on "Medical imaging - Theory and Practice"

Date: Thursday 27 April 2017
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Tawa Community Centre

Rob Wallace, ZL2WAL will be speaking on recovery after the Kaikoura earthquake from a telecommunications perspective.

Date: Thursday 30 March 2017
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Tawa Community Centre

John Andrews, ZL2HD will talk about astronavigation and how the chronometer was key to James Cook's voyages. Cook was a leading navigator of his time and was given one of Harrision's Chronometers in order to test it. Cook has been quoted as saying have one chronometer or three, but never two!

Following that will be a fun quiz (no, not the Amateur exam this time) with prizes.

Date: Thursday 23 February 2017
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Tawa Community Centre

Radio Spectrum Management has granted a short-term licence, number 256129, for additional tests of Digital Amateur Television transmissions from our Mt Belmont site.

The first transmissions will consist of an un-modulated carrier on 506 MHz during testing of the modified transmitting antenna. The dates and times of these tests will be notified on this website.

Thanks to the Titahi Bay Amateur radio Club the November Meeting is Now back on. 

Jeff Graham ZL2JG will be giving us a DMR Update and be available to update DMR radios to the latest code-plug.

Date: 24 November 2016
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Titahi Bay Club-rooms - Tireti Hall, corner Tireti Road and TePene Avenue, Titahi Bay

The October meeting will be the AGM & AREC section AGM followed by the traditional show and tell.

Date: 27 October 2016
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Tawa Community Centre

A look at the last year’s purchases for our AREC section The Group has received a huge amount of new radio equipment from AREC National to help us serve LandSAR and other agencies, as well as to make us better prepared for any major disaster we may be called on to help with.

While the radios are generally supplied, we have had to ensure that they are usable and protected during travel. This means hard cases, power supplies, antennas and cables, programming and training and experience.