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Manawatu Table Sale (No Auction this year)

Saturday 4 October 2008

at Longburn Hall, Longburn (On SH56 near rail overbridge)

From 9am to 1pm

Doors open for Vendors at 8am

Tables at $20 full-size and $10 half - please register before day or $5 extra

register to Secretary PO Box 1718 Palmerston North

Refreshments will be available

Prize draws and raffles

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:

• 2008 will see the DayBreaker® Rally celebrate 25 years;
• 2008 DayBreaker® Rally will be the final round of the Rally Extreme® Championship;
• 2008 DayBreaker® Rally will be the final round of the North Island Rally® Series;
• 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.

2008 Silver Fern Rally

The 2008 Rally is on again and Marlborough Branch 22 has been asked to provide the necessary communications support. This year the rally starts in Christchurch on the 16 October goes via Queenstown, Dunedin, Invercargill, Dunedin, Timaru, Christchurch to finish in Blenheim on the 23 October. Mobile operators will be required to have VHF & HF comms with 40 & 80 mt Dipoles required for HF as the comms base will be at Rally HQ in Blenheim. It is intended that reasonable costs will be reimbursed for accommodation and fuel during the rally only and each operator will be required to organise their own accommodation.

Details on the rally can be seen at www.silverfernrally.co.nz

There are in excess of 150 operator locations for the 5-7 special stages per day for the 7days of the rally. Interested operators are asked to register by emailing zl2ks@nzart.org.nzand to advise the dates available (to assist in early planning).

Regards, Branch 22

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