NZART Headquarters Infoline Issue 240

23 October 2011
NZART Website: www.nzart.org.nz

In this issue:

· From the desk of HQ

· IARU R 3 newsletter

· News from around the world

· Housekeeping



Debby says…as I have been away in Rarotonga for the past 8 days
and am not officially due back to work until the 25th October, this
issue of Info-line will be brief. My apologies if I have missed anything
urgent that needs to be included in this issue, however I have only
briefly scanned the 12 pages of e-mails that I have come back to.



Just a note from FMTAG…there are still a number of branches who
have yet to submit their Repeater Trustee details to Doug ZL2TAR for
inclusion and update of the next Call Book. Please forward to Doug
urgently if your branch has not already done so. These branches are as
follows:

03 Western Suburbs, 08 Eastern Southland, 22 Marlborough, 26 Nelson, 27
New Plymouth
30 Otago, 33 Rotorua, 35 South Otago, 48 Wanganui, 49 Westland, 56
Christchurch West
66 Auckland VHF, 67 Kawerau, 69 Kapiti, 85 Mercury Bay, 86 Suburban, 87
South Taranaki
88 Tauranga Emergency, REG Radio Electronics.



Talk soon…Debby ZL2DL



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IARU R 3 newsletter headlines

A Word from the Chairman of IARU Region 3 - Michael Owen VK3KI * 8th
Region 3 ARDF Championships- a report from Jack Bramham VK3WWW

The Recent APT APG2012-5 Conference Preparatory Group Meeting
Earthquake in Sikkim
Seanet 2011- a final reminder
The 2012 International YL Meet- a reminder
MS Word version of this newsletter is available at
http://www.iaru-r3.org/news/r3nl-11-10.doc

Acrobat PDF version is also available at
http://www.iaru-r3.org/news/r3nl-11-10.pdf





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News from around the world

Thailand Floods QST, to all Radio Amateurs 15 October 2011

World-wide HF operators are kindly requested to QSY away from
7.060-7.063 at all times due to use by Thailand hams during the massive
flood emergency affecting millions of people in North and Central
Thailand.

Today, the emergency is on-going with huge areas flooded of from a half
to two meters of water, some areas are deeper and a few spotty areas are
mostly dry in the region. News estimates say that the flooding will
continue for four to six more days, at its height, and subsidence will
be over a month. Clean-up and rebuilding may extend more than a year.

The majority of flood radio traffic is being carried on the two meter
band by scores of ham volunteers, some of which have had their own homes
inundated. It is impossible to estimate how many ham radio operators'
shacks are now affected, but the significant flooding covers huge swaths
of the region as seen on
http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/Rura...Thailand/pages.

The Thai National Club Station, HS0AC, home of the Radio Amateur Society
of Thailand, is threatened tomorrow and is under watch. Timely updates
can be seen at http://www.qsl.net/rast in English.
Reported by HS0ZCW, Charly

Charles Harpole



Danish Event 2012

Denmark has the Presidency of European Union from 1 January to 30 June
2012.



The call sign 5P12EU will be activated during this period.



Our rules and information about QSL and Award is added as an attached
file in this e-mail. Please forward this e-mail to anyone that are
interested including award managers in your country. Any questions,
comments etc. must be send to

Vy 73 de OZ0J / 5Q2T
Jørgen

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From NZART Intruder Watch Officer

With the high Solar activity - more and more intruders are becoming
prevalent: We definitely need your support to identify and report
intruders.

Audio samples assist along with bearings if possible.

If we do not act in a coordinated manner, we could see our bands being
taken over by many intruders.
Complacency is not an option.
ZL1GWE

FMTAG NOTES FOR HQ INFOLINE – OCTOBER 23rd 2011



PROPOSALS



The Manawatu ARC, Branch 20, has applied for a 4575 APRS Digipeater at
Mataroa, located at TOPO50 BK35 346016, with a transmit and receive
frequency of 144.575 MHz.



ZL3BCC has applied for a simplex VOIP station at Innes Road,
Christchurch, located at TOPO50 BX24 709.79 838.37. The transmit and
receive frequency will be 432.700 MHz, in accordance with the bandplan.
An engineering investigation, in accordance with MED PIB38, confirms
that there will be no interference to other stations.





FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL.



None at this time.



COMMENTS AND APPLICATIONS



Please send your comments and suggestions on the above matters, and on
any other FMTAG matters, by e-mail to:



Applications for repeaters, beacons, digipeaters, point-to-point links,
and so on, should be made on the latest version of FMTAG Form 10. The
latest versions of FMTAG Form 10, and the explanatory Form 10A, are
available on the NZART web site:



http://www.nzart.org.nz/fmtag/index.html



Completed forms should be sent by e-mail to





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Housekeeping

1.. Break-In-Closing Date Reminder: Copy for the Nov/December issue of
Break-In-closes on 10 November 2011.
2.. Copy for Break-In: Copy is welcome in most electronic formats but
word.doc files are preferred. Photos and other graphics should be send
as separate discrete files (*.jpg preferred); not as embedded pix in the
body of the text. Please ensure that suitable descriptive
captions/legends are included with your copy.
All received copy will be acknowledged to confirm receipt.
Thank you for your cooperation.
John Walker ZL3IB Editor.
3.. Break-In: Early receipt of copy is much appreciated
4.. Break-In-AREC Column: The close-of-copy date is the 03 November
2011 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. Use the Call Book address. All other material can
go to e-mail:
or
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