Thanks for all the participants that have sent in logs for the award. We are working on them now and with our new "work from home" rules, we should have them out to you soon.
If you have not sent in a log, it is not too late and we will process it (no matter when you get it to us!)
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Due to the increased risk of COVID-19 and the closure of the Tawa Community Centre by the Wellington City Council, there will be no March 2020 General Meeting.
Join us for an informal net on 710. Thursdays at 20.00 hrs.
On 1 March from 12 noon -3pm we will be meeting for a light lunch at Mike ZL1AXG’s QTH
Branch 50 NZART will be ordering in a light fingerfood lunch (savouries and sandwiches) as the hosts for the joint event for Branch 50 and Branch 74 members.
Venue: Mike’s Garage, 2 Derry Hill, Churton Park (Please park on roadside outside QTH or on Amesbury Drive)
Again we will hold our end of year dinner at YumYum House in Tawa.
Please RSVP to info@vhf.nz and partners, family, friends are all welcome.
From 7pm, but come when you can as it is a fairly large group and they cannot cook for us all at the same time!
This year the theme of the award is telephone exchanges.
This is a fun event for all Amateurs, all who submit a log will receive a Certificate.
The Award Runs from 21 December 2019 to 9 February 2020
Tom Clarke ZL2TDD passed away on Saturday 26 October aged 75 years.
Tom was Treasurer of the VHF Group for many years and was a stalwart contributor to many Group projects as well as AREC events.
His funeral will held at St John's Anglican Church 18 Basset Rd Johnsonville at 10am on Thursday 31 of October at 10am
The October meeting will be the AGM & AREC section AGM followed by the traditional show and tell.
Date: 29 October 2019
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Tawa Community Centre
John Zl4JY will speak on the new 4RF Communications LTE radios.
See 4rf.com
Also DMR Codeplug Updates
Rob ZL2WAL will be able to update some models with the latest codeplugs. Please see Rob at the start of the meeting.
Don ZL2TYR, National Director AREC, will present on the new changes to AREC and the new directions and activities that are being worked on.
This subject has had some coverage as the changes have been working along for over a year now. What is happening next is a result of the work done by the AREC management team to increase participation, increase the interaction with other organisations and become better at providing the services that AREC is designed to deliver.
The Group is holding amateur radio classes this August. They will be 1,15 and 22 August at Tawa Community Centre, 7:30-9:00 PM.
The material to be used is available on this site at this link. You will need to print at least the questions with answers, Book 5 (60 pages).
The material you need to know is Book 2 (131 pages).
We are looking to have these available for people, please contact us if you cannot arrange to get them printed your self.
