Editor: - Don MacDonald ZL3DMC

Distribution: - Alan Wallace ZL1AMW

NZART Website: www.nzart.org.nz




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Special Issue 52S
Date 10/06/2016


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Info-line Special - NZART AGM Queens Birthday Weekend

NZART Conference is now all over, and was a great success. Some
important AGM highlights and Council announcements from the
weekend’s events are as follows:



Subscriptions 2017

Subscriptions for 2017 will remain the same as 2016 i.e.
Transmitting/Non $99, Family $129, Student $45, Overseas $125. A rebate
of $10 is applicable if membership is paid by 30 November 2016.



Christchurch Branch Remit

The original remit read:

That NZART should look at a digital membership with electronic Break-In
in PDF format by the 2017 year.

After an amendment by Franklin branch which was carried, the following
remit was carried on voices:

That NZART should look at an electronic Break In, in pdf format in
addition to the paper version by the 2017 Year.



NZART Website

Chris Hellyar ZL3LF gave an excellent power point presentation on the
new Website design and advised that progress is well underway with an
implementation date of September 2016 for Stage 1. This will include a
cull of both old pages that are no longer valid and of broken links.
Regular updates on progress will be included in infoline. Chris
emphasised that content managers will be needed to keep the web pages up
to date; the new website will allow managers to have automatic reminders
of when a page update is due.

A feature of the new website will allow NZART branches to have their own
pages in effect providing them with their on site within the larger
NZART website.



HQ Computer and Software

Council approved a full upgrade of the NZART headquarters computer
software and hardware, as the current database has held us in good stead
for the past 18+ years, interfacing with the accounting package. The
time has come to upgrade and particular care will be taken with back-up
systems and firewalls.



Call Book 2017

Council confirmed at the Monday meeting after input from the AGM, that
an electronic Call Book will be produced towards the end of this year
either in a CD Rom or USB stick format.



RSM Records in SMART

The membership promotion to encourage new and lapsed members to re-join
has proven very successful, with a total of 164 applications for
membership being received. The promotion has highlighted the need for
NZART to liaise with RSM in order to update records in their SMART
database as 422 letters were returned as undeliverable and a further 74
notifications of silent keys. This will be undertaken by our Business
Manager (Debby) and the Administration Liaison Officer (Don ZL2TLL) as
soon as practicable.



NZART Examination Software & Examination Syllabus

Gary Bold ZL1AN developed the NZART examination generation software and
has maintained it for about 20 years and has assisted Council in
locating his successor: Andrew Mitchell ZL1AF. Council has appointed
Andrew to this important role, and he has already upgraded the software
to the latest version to allow continued operation with Windows 10 and
future Microsoft operating systems.

Over the conference weekend a small working group was formed to look at
the NZART examination syllabus to ensure that it is up to date while
ensuring it remains compatible with the European CEPT Harmonised Amateur
Radio Examination Certificate (HAREC) syllabus that gives us access to
operate in many other countries.



Awards

Amateur of the year was awarded to our ALO Don Wallace ZL2TLL in
recognition of his hard work in 2015. Of note while Don was working in
Geneva at the WRC 2015 as part of the ZL team Don had to deal with the
RSM fees review.

The Rothschild Cup was presented to Otago branch for 22 successful
examination passes in 2015.

The 2015 Best Examination Result under 18 years, sponsored by Nelson
Sound, was awarded to Xenia Berger ZL4YL (age 14) of Hastings Branch.

Two persons received 100% Examination pass badges in 2015, Antoinette
Bartkus ZL3ALP and Ivan Radojevic ZL1IVA.

The ZL1HV Jumbo Godfrey badge was awarded to Barry Johnson ZL2BAZ.

A certificate of recognition was presented to Warren Harris ZL2AJ for
the team that launched (SOTA) Summits on the Air in New Zealand.

Congratulations to all.

The Stirrers award at the AGM was presented by Vice President Phil
ZL3PAH to our Local Government Liaison Officer Douglas Birt ZL2BFS.
After Douglas delivered his report Stuart mentioned that Douglas was the
person responsible for introducing and mentoring him into amateur radio:
to which he replied “we all make mistakes�.



Conference 2017

The Rotorua branch has kindly offered to host the 2017 AGM and
conference.










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