Amateur Radio / June 2012
September 2012 | May 2012-
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Wellingtom Wander Search Initial Meeting Thursday 5 July 2012
- Wellington VHF Group
- Wellington Wander Search is a group that is being set up to support Police searching for people living with Alzheimers. The group is similar to others operating around NZ and will use the WandaTrak system that has been adopted by organisations such as LandSAR. Members of the VHF Group have initiated this in Wellington, based on our interest in the technology, Radio Direction Finding (RDF or "fox hunting") and our association through AREC with search and rescue organisations. One area we are keen to explore is improvements to the system or effective alternatives.
- Accepted from VHF group news
- Automatically tagged as:
- amateur-radio
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Bike The Trail - A community service event
- Wellington VHF Group
- Bike the Trail, a popular recreational event, provides either a 25km cycle ride from Harcourt Park in Upper Hutt, or a 12km ride from Stokes Valley, down the Hutt River Trail to Hikoikoi Reserve in Petone. The ride is held annually and is designed as a non-competitive family cycling event promoting cycling as a fun, healthy, safe means of transport and recreation. Wellington VHF Group were contracted to ensure public safety during this event. The event was originally scheduled to run on Sunday 4th March, however this was cancelled due to the effects of bad weather. During the previous 24 hours period Wellington experienced what the forecasters termed a “weather bomb”. In the early hours of Saturday wind gusts of 134 km/hr were recorded in Belmont Regional Park, close to the site of our Belmont station, see graph below:
- Accepted from VHF group news
- Tagged as:
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Stokes Valley, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, 5019, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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