August Meeting - Porirua Emergency Management Operations Centre (Civil Defence)

 

This building has been recently totally refurbished and has purpose built radio communications and operation rooms.

Branch 74 AREC is working closely with the Emergency Management Office helping to provide some of the communications infrastructure that will assist during an emergency operation.

Date: Thursday 29 March
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: 2B Raiha Street Porirua

BBQ 27 January (Saturday)

The Wellington VHF Group & Kapiti Branch would like to invite everyone in the Wellington Area to join them for a BBQ at Queen Elizabeth II park from 12 Noon.

Picnic area 7 will be allocated to us and entry is via Wellington Road, Paekakariki.

Enter from Wellington Road Pakakariki when you enter the park head left around the large loop  and just before you get back to where you start from there  is a large open area    

July Meeting - NZ Red Cross IT & Telecom Assisting Nepal Earthquake Response

Don ZL2TLL was one of the team of three New Zealand Red Cross IT & Telecom Emergency Response Unit members that arrived in Nepal on 29 April 2015, four days after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Don will talk about the ERU and what it did to assist the relief effort in Nepal.

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

May Meeting - Technologies in use by Red Cross, how it is deployed and Remits

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.