Meetings

At the March Main Meeting this coming Thursday 27 March, Mark Foster ZL1VMF will speak on his involvement with the Fire Police. Mark served as a Volunteer Fire Policeman within the New Zealand Fire Service for the last 5 years, in both Auckland and Wellington, and currently serves with the Hutt Valley Volunteer Fire Police Unit.

You are invited to the Wellington VHF Group Fox Hunt 2008.

As we have for the last few years, the February meeting is a "Fox Hunt", to celebrate and take advantage of Summer and Daylight Saving.

Meet in the car park (between the Tawa Community Centre and Woolworths) from 6:30 pm. Please register and pick up your checklist with the rules and frequencies in use. We hope to have 2 or more foxes on 2 m, and 2 or more on 70 cm.

Fox Hunt starts at 7:00 pm.

Meet back at Tawa Community Centre by 8:45 pm, as pizzas and chips will be provided from 9:00 pm.

You will need:

A brief report post our AGM night this last Thursday, with more to follow.
The night was very well attended with seating at a premium. Some notes below...

Firstly with regards to our AGM, congratulations to the following appointments:

President: Brian Fearnley ZL2BRF
Vice President: To Be Advised
Secretary: Mark Foster ZL1VMF
Treasurer: Tom Clark ZL2TDD
Committee: Steve Jepson ZL2KG; David Andrews ZL2SX; Doug Ingham ZL2TAR; Fred Johnson ZL2AMJ; Rick Smith ZL2TVY; Jim Towler ZL1TYF.

OCTOBER MEETING, Thursday 25th October, 7:30pm, Tawa Community Centre, Cambridge Street, Tawa. (Talk-in on 710 repeater).

This months meeting is made up of the Annual General Meeting, (the formal part), followed by a presentation by Stan Swan, our guest speaker for the evening, (the entertaining part).

The September meeting will commence at 7:30 pm, at the Tawa Community Centre, Cambridge Street, Tawa.

For this meeting Bob Morris ZL2AVM will give an illustrated talk on the topic of tubular steel guyed masts and discuss the technical aspects to be considered when choosing and rigging this type of mast. Bob has a wide experience with large transmitting sites and he has some hair-raising anecdotes to relate. This talk promises to be both informative and entertaining.

Our speaker this month is Bruce Emirali, The N.Z. Defence Force Spectrum Manager who will make a presentation on and discuss the Defence Force planning and use of radio spectrum. He will cover the planning aspects, and the strategic and tactical use of radio spectrum by branches of the Defence Force in the delivery of their defence roles.