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April 2008

2008 Conference Activities -update

As you will all hopefully be aware the NZART Conference is in Dunedin this year.

For those that are attending we have a couple of additional activities planned.

1) A visit on the Monday to Shag Valley Station, site of the first Transworld Radio contact, with its memorabilia collected by the Bell family, and

2) A mobile rally, also on the Monday.

What we would like Conference attendees to do is to indicate reasonably soon, which of these additional activities they would like to participate in. We need a fair indication of the likely numbers for planning purposes.

They can register their interest on our website, http://www.zl4aa.org.nz/

Branch 30 celebrates its 80th Birthday this year so we look forward to meeting you all at Conference and that you all can take in a bit of history at Shag Valley.

2008 Conference Committee

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20 APRIL 2008

NZART Headquarters InfoLine Issue 159

In This Issue

- From The NZART Business Manager Debby ZL2TDM

== Leave

- Jock White Memorial Field Day Correction

- NZART 2008 Annual Conference News Update

- ZL DXCC Card Checker

- AMATEUR PROMOTION DURING SCHOOL HOLIDAY 23 APRIL 2008

- Square Kilometre Array - SKA (Radio is alive!)

- Contest News

== VHF-UHF Contest Notes: Results of the Low Band Contest Coming Soon

== HF Contests

- Break-In/HQIL Information

== Break-In Closing Date Reminder

== Auto-Subscription and Un-Subscribe

== Dates for Official Broadcast (OB) and Headquarters' Info-Line (Infoline)

- Attachments

== NZART Headquarters Info Line 159.doc

== Field day 2008 results.pdf

OFFICIAL BROADCAST THIS MONTH IS ON SUNDAY APRIL 27 2008

NEXT HQIL IS TO BE E-MAILED ON SUNDAY MAY 4 2008

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11-April-2008

Amateur Radio Promotion During School Holidays 23 April 2008

At Papakura Radio Club we are opening our clubrooms on Wednesday 23rd April for an open day style promotion of Amateur Radio. The format that we will cover this year is shown in a handout and you can link to that at http://www.qsl.net/zl1vk/ARPromo2008.pdf

The 23rd April is during the school holidays and we have advised High Schools in the area, forwarded information to the local newspapers in the Auckland area and will soon be emailing other service clubs in the area to invite their members along.

We will have HF stations operational, a portable station setup in a vehicle and live demonstrations of APRS, EchoLink, Digital Modes and displays for AREC, NZART and Training / Exam details. We have one person for each activity. A couple of computer Powerpoint presentations will be running and a 50'' plasma will also run presentations.

All we need now is some arms and legs (non ham).

Any other ideas are welcome as there is still lots of time to go!

David ZL1DK

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9-April-2008

DayBreaker® Rally 2008

Hi everyone

The DayBreaker® Rally Organising Committee met on Wednesday 12 March 2008 which I attended. AREC has once again been asked to provide radio communications for Start, Finish and Mid-point tracking. AREC will also be operating within the Rally HQ. Tararua District Radio Club Incorporated Branch 06 has again been confirmed as the host club for organising amateur radio communications throughout the course this year.

The date for the DayBreaker® Rally has been confirmed for Saturday 11 October 2008 and will follow the same course as last year covering roads within the Tararua and Manawatu Districts with a full day of rallying thrills and spills.

This year's Rally will be significant in that it attracts four special events:

1) 2008 will see the DayBreaker® Rally celebrate 25 years;

2) 2008 DayBreaker® Rally will be the final round of the Rally Extreme Championship;

3) 2008 DayBreaker® Rally will be the final round of the North Island Rally Series,

4) 2008 Tararua District Radio Club Incorporated celebrates 80 years of service to the community.

An early invitation is extended to operators interested in being part of this year's Rally so mark the date on your calendars now.

What you will need: A mobile VHF or UHF or a dual band radio fitted into your vehicle with appropriate antennae. You will need to advise me which you have so that you can be placed at the appropriate location for your radio. If your radio is at the doctors but you are still interested in taking part please let me know so that we can try and organise something for you.

A Radio Operators Rally Manual will be sent out to those involved in the Rally again this year and are mostly complete but am awaiting confirmation on a couple of items from the DayBreaker® Rally Committee including a new and updated course map. While it is envisaged that we will use the same frequencies as last year, the use of both fixed and STSP repeaters have not yet been confirmed.

As with past years, reimbursements will be available again this year for those operators who are registered and involved within the Rally at the designated radio points. The DayBreaker® Rally Committee have reiterated that reimbursements will only be available for those operators registered with the Rally and involved on the day, funding constraints DO NOT ALLOW for reimbursements for pre-Rally activities.

*PLEASE NOTE:* It is a requirement of the DayBreaker® Rally Safety Plan that ALL participants [including radio operators] involved within the Rally are registered for the event. As one of the confirmed officials for the DayBreaker® Rally, I will be collating the necessary information from operators involved on the day and submit this to the DayBreaker® Rally Committee for reimbursement approval. Registration of radio operators consists of your name and contact details which will be logged through myself to the Rally Committee.

A total of 30 operators are required for DayBreaker® Rally on Saturday 11 October 2008 so the earlier we can confirm a full complement, the sooner I will be able to advise the DayBreaker® Rally Committee if we can man all required radio locations or whether they will need to order more Fleetlink radios in.

Once again thank you to everyone who was involved with DayBreaker® 2007 and I look forward to hearing from those interested in this year's event.

Regards

Stephen Cooper ZL2WAU/ZK8EH

Official Communications Coordinator

DayBreaker® Rally 2008

N.B. This is the first official Radio operators 2008 DayBreaker® Rally publication approved for release.