New Amateurs from Ham Cram 2025
Congratulations to all who passed exams over the Ham Cram weekend. Callsigns have been allocated: ZL2ACV - Andy ZL2DEF - Jeremy ZL2EZY - Ezekiel ZL2LDD - Lacey ZL2MAL - Malcolm ZL2MSD - Mark ZL2PST - Simon ZL2SPK - Sam ZL2XH - Ferry ZL3GT - George ZL3IW - Ira ZL4LAM - Jared I'm sure everyone will welcome you on to the air. Welcome to the hobby. Two more to sit the exam in the coming weeks. Giovanni would like to pass on his congratulations to the new graduates and thanks to those who helped during the course and during the weekend.
SAR Ex – 4th/5th/6th July 2025
Nine Manawatu AREC Members participated in the local SAR Ex with 4 lost persons being found. Four portable repeaters were deployed to provide radio coverage for the search area.
Club Night – Celebrity Tells All – Region Flood Monitoring Telemetry Upgrade – Wednesday 2nd July 2025
Damon ZL1ELC gave a good presentation of the recent telemetry network upgrades for monitoring the environmental data in the Horizons Region following Cyclone Gabrielle.
Working Bee – Saturday 28th June 2025
A quick hour at the club, a few jobs ticked off and the place looking good.
Fox Hunt – Sunday 22nd June 2025
1st Pete ZL2AUB 2nd Ryan ZL1RKW 3rd Richard ZL2RGB 4th Barrie ZL2BJA. Fox Jack ZL2JAK at Alexander Park
SAR Quiz Night – Wednesday 11th June 2025
Six AREC members participated in the annual Palmerston North Land Search and Rescue Quiz Night, split between 2 teams and placing 3rd and 4th place.
Workshop Night – Monday 9th June 2025
This workshop night Graeme ZL2GZ showed off the recently deployed NZ Coverage Maps website.