Amateur Radio / May 2009
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Wellington VHF Group response to MED Scoping Study on “Digital Dividend”
- Wellington VHF Group
- The MED have invited response to their scoping paper concerning a future review of spectrum of interest to us. The decisions that will result from this process are seen as pivotal to the future of the amateur allocations of 50MHz-54MHz, and 614MHz-622MHz. read more
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Brief Outage
- Wellington VHF Group
- It was flagged that the website was unavailable for a period last evening. This was caused by an issue with our DNS services host (DiscountDomains). Apologies if anyone noticed the disruption!
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CTCSS 2009 Update and Recommendations
- Wellington VHF Group
- Following on from the 2007 VHF Forum, a paper was published in Q-Bit and on the www.vhf.org.nz website. A number of comments were received and these made up the basis of that paper and was published in June 2008. At Convention in 2009, John ZL2HD outlined the ideas in the paper and outlined the following recommendeations. The CTCSS Reccomendations is an informal document that those considering
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June Main Meeting
- Wellington VHF Group
- John ZL4JY will be speaking on digital mobile radio. This is an excIting talk on some of the modern digital standards in use in the mobile radio area, including P.25, Tetra and D-Star. John promises lots of information, demonstrations and comments on the past, current and future!
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Amateur Radio Study Guide Updated
- Wellington VHF Group
- Fred ZL2AMJ has updated his Amateur Radio Study Guide and this has now been published. Please let the webmaster know if you notice any problems with the update - otherwise, enjoy!
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Softrocks Rule! OK
- Wellington VHF Group
- The Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting on Thursday 7th May saw a group of Softrock kit owners, and others interested in SMD construction, work on assembly and testing of their kits.Richard ZL2TCU inspecting his handywork. Image courtesy Dick Greenbank ZL2TGQ Several items of high-performance test equipment were on hand to check the functioning of the finished articles. Although some of the kits
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May Meeting – Thursday 28th, 7:30pm, Tawa Community Centre
- Wellington VHF Group
- Preparing for KiwiSAT The KiwiSAT project is progressing closer to a possible launch. Come along and hear how to prepare your station for when N.Z.’s own satellite goes into service. Terry ZL2BAC, our KiwiSAT rep, will outline and discuss what is required, including, A brief overview of the current status of the KiwiSAT project Spacecraft capabilities, systems, and frequencies The probable orbit m
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Dateline: Saturday 02 May 2009
- Wellington VHF Group
- Today I attended the 50th Wanganui “Junk Sale” held at Wanganui Intermediate School. The day started for me with the arrival of Ted ZL2TED and Don ZL2DON at my QTH, and we set off from Newlands at around 06:45. We made good time travelling north, with a breakfast stop at Bulls, arriving at the venue at about 09:30. read more
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Newlands, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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