Meetings

This months general meeting will be a presentation from Rob ZL2WAL titled Geocaching the modern day treasure hunt.
The presentation will be an introduction to Geocaching, both the places it takes you and the technological side ranging from PC Programming to smart phones and GPS devices and how they all connect to allow the Geocacher to find treasure.

Date: Thursday 30 June
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Tawa Community Centre

Voting on remits for the NZART AGM, Please bring your Q Bit or Break In for the discussion and voting

Member's show and tell. Bring along your latest projects or make a presentation on projects you are currently working on, others will certainly find them interesting

See you then!

This month's main meeting will be visit to the GNS Radio Carbon Dating Machine at Gracefield.
We will need to be in the car park at 7:30pm sharp as access is strictly controlled.

Our host is John ZL2TUD. If you need directions please call on 710 or call as per Qbit phone numbers.

We may get time to hold a quick formal meeting and get some business done that is needed before the end of the year.

See you all there!

The October 2010 Special Interest Group (SIG) night looked at the new Opentracker units that were ordered as the APRS Bulk Purchase. Over $1000 of hardware was delivered to the eager members (or mailed out) and we looked at the hardware build quality, components, SW and configuration options. The cables provided look to be excellent value and well made. The GPS units locked on quickly and held positions even when we tried to block the signal, so are very sensitive.

Change in Program! New speaker!
Mike Mendonca from WCC City Ops will talk about his time serving NZ Forces overseas and his work with the Council, including WEMO and City Ops. Mike is a great speaker and has some good stories to tell.
24 June 2010 at 7.30pm at the usual venue in Tawa.

The May meeting followed up the formal business with a Show and Tell.

We had six speakers and two new guests introduced themselves- they have migrated to Wellington with their SAR search dogs, cats and radio gear from Finland. Previously they had worked for a small Finnish company called Nokia! Teemu is now ZL2MRJ and Mira is ZL2GEE.

The talks:

At the May General meeting the Group voted on the remits for NZART Conference in June.

The results are:

Remit 1: For
Remit 2: Against
Remit 3: For
Remit 4: For
Remit 5: Against
Remit 6: For
Vote on NZART President's Entry Level Licence Question (part of remit 4): Against

The delegates were given discretion.

ZL2TVM and ZL2HD were appointed as delegates.