NZART Headquarters Infoline Issue 196
jamie pye
NZART Headquarters Infoline Issue 196
22-NOVEMBER-2009
NZART Website: http://www.nzart.org.nz/
Greetings
Welcome to Headquarters-Infoline a twice-monthly bulletin of news from NZART
Headquarters e-mailed directly to Branches, the amateur radio packet
Bulletin Board Service and to others that subscribe through the NZART
Website at:
http://www.nzart.org.nz/lists/infolinelist.html
In This Issue
*From The Business Manager Debby Morgan ZL2TDM
==NZART HQ Office Hours
==Remits
==Final call for 2010 subscriptions at the reduced rate.
*New Web-Page Antennas & Planning
*Updates from NZART Monitoring Service Coordinator
*NZART World Wide Web
==URLs Changes
==Progress Report on Transferring the NZART Web and E-mail Services to NZ
*Contest News
==VHF/UHF/SHF Contest Notes
==HF Contests
*Upcoming Events
*Break-In and Infoline Information
*Dates for Official Broadcast (OB) and Head Quarter's Infoline
*Attachments for Branches:
NZART Headquarters Infoline 196.doc
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>From The Business Manager Debby Morgan ZL2TDM
NZART HQ Office Hours
As from 1 December 2009, NZART headquarters office hours will be from 9am to
4:30pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each week. It will NOT be open
Monday's and Friday's however if urgent a simple call to the office will
advise my cell phone details, so you contact me.
Remits
It is time again for branches to consider any remits they wish Council to
consider for the AGM in 2010.
Could all branch secretaries please send these in writing, either by post or
e-mail before the 31st December 2009.
Final call for 2010 subscriptions at the reduced rate.
If you wish to take advantage of the $10 discount applicable to your NZART
subscription, please forward your payment on or before the end of this
month.
Talk soon...Debby ZL2TDM
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New Web-Page Antennas & Planning
A new web-page can be found on the NZART Web-Site at:
http://www.nzart.org.nz/anten-plan/index.html
Antennas and Planning contains information relating to local authority
planning and how it affects amateur radio antenna installations.
The current issues are
a) Wellington City District Plan Change No 74
Submissions have been made and further submissions close on 4 December.
A proforma further submission will appear on the web-site in a day or so,
and all amateurs, whether NZART members or not, are invited to make a
further submission.
You can use the proforma or write your own further submission.
b) Proposed Taurange District Plan
Submissions close on 15 December. A summary will be published and further
submissions will then be invited.
Remember -- these are the only opportunities we get to persuade the Councils
to meet our reasonable needs, so that antenna installations can be erected
as permitted uses, and without the problems that can occur with overly
restrictive planning rules and vexatious neighbours.
Visit these pages often to keep abreast of ongoing planning developments.
For further information email mne...@nzart.org.nz
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Updates from NZART Monitoring Service Coordinator
VU2UR B.L. Manohar was not re-elected recently for Region 3 Monitoring
Service Coordinator.
He has been replaced by Peter Young, VK3MV Australia E-mail: sp...@tpg.com.au
By the way were you aware that New Zealand actually had OTHR (Over The
Horizon Radar) transmitter sites?
They are part of the SuperDarn system which includes the Unwin A and B
systems from New Zealand.
http://www.tiger.latrobe.edu.au/display/web2.html
http://www.tiger.latrobe.edu.au/unwin/index.html#01
73 de ZL1GWE Monitoring Service Coordinator NZART
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NZART World Wide Web
URLs Changes
>From Q-Bit for November 2009, the Newsletter of the Wellington VHF Group
NZART Branch 74, comes the following, found at the bottom of page 4:
"REMIT 2
THAT, the FMTAG Coordination Procedure be amended to enable public scrutiny
of applications by use of modem technology, such as notice via NZART
website, and public response via email.
Explanation: The purpose of this remit is to overcome the frustration caused
by the delay of notice due to the two-month cycle of Break-In magazine."
With the activity increase expected for the Antennas and Planning, The NZART
Monitoring Service and the possible change in use of the FMTAG pages, it was
time to bring about a change to the NZART Web pages, related to these three
items, as they had been tucked away under a general folder 'nz'.
Effective immediately the following URLs have changed:
Local Government has now been renamed to ANTENNAS AND PLANNING
Antennas & Planning is at http://www.nzart.org.nz/anten-plan/index.html
(was http://www.nzart.org.nz/nz/locgvt.html)
FMTAG is at http://www.nzart.org.nz/fmtag/index.html
(was http://www.nzart.org.nz/nz/fmtag.html)
MS (Monitoring Service) is at http://www.nzart.org.nz/ms/index.html
(was http://www.nzart.org.nz/nz/ms.html)
The data is stored in a folder, below the main folder, with a name of the
current year. For example, the October 2009 FMTAG Notes,would have an
address of:
http://www.nzart.org.nz/fmtag/2009/oct.html, when the notes were given the
name of 'oct.html'.
A redirection has been made on the original address as have the files for
each address.
Progress Report on Transferring the NZART Web and E-mail Services to NZ
The physical position of the NZ server is Lower Hutt, not that it matters
where it is located in NZ. The web is up and running and has been checked
and tested successfully for some months now.
Getting e-mail successfully running has been the cause of the delay in
transferring the service over, but progress is being made.
The NZART member e-mail alias service is still up and running on the USA
server and is offered for any current or future member to join. Use e-mails
NZAR...@NZART.ORG.NZ, WEBM...@NZART.ORG.NZ or ZL...@NZART.ORG.NZ to
request to join the service.
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Contest News
VHF/UHF/SHF Contest Notes
Field Day Contest, 50 MHz and up
5 December 2009 - 1700 to 2300 NZT
6 December 2009 - 0700 to 1300 NZT
The rules are available at:
http://www.vhf.org.nz/VHF-UHF-SHF-ContestRules
Logs should be sent within two weeks, to:
zl...@clear.net.nz with Contest Log in the subject line,
or by post to:
Contest Manager, Wellington VHF Group, P.O. Box 12-259, Thorndon, Wellington
Wellington VHF Group Website http://www.vhf.org.nz
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HF Contests
KIWI DIGITAL KIWI DIGITAL GROUPS � TWIN SPRINT DIGITAL CONTEST
When :- Saturday. 5 December 2009
Times :- 0800 UTC until 0900 UTC (2000 NZDT until 2100 NZDT)
Band :- 80m
Modes :- PSK31 - 0800 until 0830
RTTY - 0830 until 0900
Sprint/Contest Rules and other Operating Information - refer to Manawatu
Branch Website - http://zl2ko.org.nz
2010 JOCK WHITE MEMORIAL FIELD DAY CONTEST
When:- Saturday, 27th February 2010 and Sunday 28th February 2010
Times :- Saturday 1500 NZDT until 2400 NZDT and
Sunday 0600 NZDT until 1500 NZDT
Updated Contest Rules and Other Operating Information will be available from
the NZART Website prior to the commencement of the contest .
NZART Website http://www.nzart.org.nz/contests
2010 ARRL INTERNATIONAL CW CONTEST
When : - Saturday, 20 February 2010 and Sunday, 21 February 2010
Times :- 0000 UTC (20th) until 2400 UTC (21st).
Bands :- All Bands
Mode:- CW Only
Contest Rules and Other Operating Information are available from the ARRL
Website,
http://www/arrl.org
A good contest as is the later SSB Contest (March 6&7) to garner those
missing US States for the elusive Worked All States award.
2010 ARRL INTERNATIONAL PHONE CONTEST
When :- Saturday, 6 March 2010 and Sunday, 7 March 2010
Times:- 0000 UTC (6th ) until 2400 UTC (7th )
Bands :- All Bands
Mode :- Phone Only
For Contest Rules and other Operating Information please refer to the
Contest
Website - http://www.arrl.org/contests
2010 RSBG COMMONWEALTH CONTEST (BERU)
When :- 13 & 14 March 2010
Times :- 1000 UTC (Sat.) until 1000 UTC (Sun.)
Bands :- All Bands
Mode :- CW Only
Considered to be one of the more gentlemany contests that has been in
existence since the mid-1930's. Apart from the individual performances there
is a Team's event, based on individual nation's participation. The NZART
Team under the astute leadership of Frank Hunt, ZL2BR won this event in 2007
and finished third last year. Frank is looking for Team participants to make
up the NZ Team. Interested - contact Frank by "snail mail" at :- 8 Manu
Crescent, New Plymouth. 4310., or email :-
zl...@ihug.co.nz
Contest Rules and other operating information is now available from the
Contest
website :- http://www.hfcc.org/hfcc/rule/2009/beru.shtml
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Upcoming Events
Wellington Radio EXPO '10
27 March 2010, Knox Church Hall, Lower Hutt
NZART Annual Conference Auckland 5th - 7th June 2010
http://nzartconference.cjb.net
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Break-In, Infoline and General Information
Break-In - From the Break-In Editor John ZL3IB
1. Closing Date Reminder: Copy for the JANUARY/FEBRUARY issue of Break-In
closes on 10-JANUARY-2009.
2. Document File Format: Please do not send copy for publication as Word
2007.docx files; they cannot be processed. Please send in Word 2003 (or
earlier).doc or *.rtf file format.
3. Early receipt of copy is much appreciated.
4. Break-In Contents Index from 1957 can be found at:
http://www.nzart.org.nz/breakin/index/index.html
Copy for the AREC Break-In Column - From Geoff ZL3QR
The close-of-copy date is the 03-JANUARY-2009 for articles for publication
in the AREC COLUMN OF BREAK-IN. Photos, if available, to be on a separate
floppy or CD (with captions), posted DIRECTLY TO US Call Book address. All
other material can go to e-mail: zl...@nzart.org.nz or zl...@nzart.org.nz.
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The WIA Weekly News Bulletin and The ARRL Letter can be found at:
WIA Weekly News Bulletin
http://www.nzart.org.nz/html/2009/wia-weekly-news.html
ARRL Letter
http://www.nzart.org.nz/html/2009/arrl-weekly-news.html
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Dates for Official Broadcast (OB) and Head Quarter's Infoline
OBs FOR 2009=NOV-29 DEC-20
OBs FOR 2010
FEB-28 MAR-28 APR-25 MAY-30 JUN-08-27
JUL-25 AUG-29 SEP-26 OCT-31 NOV-28 DEC-19
* Next NZART Official Broadcast SUNDAY 29-NOVEMBER-2009, * and
* Next HQ-Infoline e-mailed on SUNDAY 06-DECEMBER-2009 *
INFOLINE 2009 SUNDAY=DEC-06-20
INFOLINE 2010 SUNDAY
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Regards, Jamie Pye ZL2NN, Editor zl...@nzart.org.nz