June Meeting - High Altitude Ballooning
Our Guest speaker this month is Julia ZL2HAB, she will be speaking on her High Altitude balloon projects.
Date: Thursday 29 June 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.
April Meeting - Medical imaging - Theory and Practice
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
March Meeting - Kaikoura Earthquake Telecoms recovery
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
February Meeting - Astronavigation and the Chronometer
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
Digital Television Update
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.
November 2016 meeting now back on
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
November 2016 Meeting Cancelled
Due to the Tawa facility being used for Business Continunity purposes by the WCC, we are not able to meet there this week.
We will look at how we can reschedule the meeting and the speakers.
We do not have a December Q-Bit, so most likely we will not be in communication until Janurary 2017. Have a safe and happy Christmas.
73
John ZL2HD
President, Wellington VHF Group, Branch 74 NZART
Kordia National System Award 2017 - Power Stations
24 Decemeber 2016 to 30 Janurary 2017
October 2016 - AGM and Show & Tell
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