NZART NZART Headquarters Infoline Issue 298
20 June 2014
Editor: - Mike Bull ZL2VM
Distribution: - Alan Wallace ZL1AMW
NZART Website: www.nzart.org.nz
In this Issue
1. From NZART HQ
2. FMTAG Notes
3. Auckland Unitary Plan Submission
4. Wanted - Copy for Break-In.5. Notice of Deceased Estate
sale of Amateur Equipment6. IARU HF World Championship 2014
7. Hamilton Amateur Radio Club – Market Day
8. Official Broadcast
Off Shore News Links
NZART Housekeeping
1. Debby says . . .
Some more useful snippets from Conference.
Remember ZL1VH advised earlier that Branches can retain a percentage of
the $99 membership fee if forwarding an application for membership to
the Association?
The amount branches can retain is now $45, returning $54 with the
application to NZART headquarters.
The 2015 budget forecast has been prepared, included is the provision
for a representative to attend WRC15 in Geneva at a cost of
approximately $15,000. This significantly affects our bottom line,
placing the Association in deficit by around $8000, therefore Council
are seeking contributions to assist with this travel, by way of donating
your rebate of $10 with the 2015 subscription invoice or making a
separate donation.
It is now compulsory that all branches be solely responsible for payment
of their repeater and beacon licensing. These be must be returned to the
respective branch name, so that RSM invoices will be sent direct to the
branch repeater trustee or secretary.
Council recommends to not make changes in licence ownership until
October 2014. If done earlier, branches will receive a small invoice
from RSM for the portion licence cost through to their annual invoice
date in November.
NZART will continue to meet the cost of licence fees for strategic sites
such as the National System links and the IARU HF beacons but Council
encourages those Branches who own the national system equipment to
consider making a donation to HQ to help cover those licence costs.
Sorry this issue is all about money, however in order to preserve the
rights of all amateurs in New Zealand and to enable the Association to
continue into the future, we need your help.
Talk soon…Debby ZL2DL
2. FMTAG Notes
FMTAG NOTES FOR HQ INFOLINE 298
CALL BOOK 2014-2015
The first step in the preparation of the Beacon, Link and Repeater
tabular listings for the next Call Book, checking the 326 licence
records in SMART, has been completed.
Over the next week, Branches will receive an email requesting that they
check the proposed Call Book listing, and add the callsigns of two
Trustees for each station in the list.
Members are asked to provide feedback on the format of the tables, for
example: sorted by geographic location order, or frequency order, or
some other order.
Please email:
COMMENTS AND APPLICATIONS
Please send your comments and suggestions on the above, 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 website:
http://www.nzart.org.nz/fmtag/index.html
Completed forms should be sent by e-mail to
3. Auckland Unitary Plan Submission
Auckland Unitary Plan Submission
20 June 2014
The Background
Auckland Council’s notified Unitary Plan basically stipulated
that all radio amateur configurations (i.e. aerials) would be subjected
to a Restricted Discretionary resource consent. This is not only
frightfully expensive (upwards of $5000 every time an antenna change is
contemplated) but it is also blatantly discriminatory. For instance, if
I am a yachtie and want to mount a VHF marine whip on the barge board of
my house, I can do it as of right, but if as a radio amateur I want to
put an almost identical 2m whip on my bargeboard, I have to get a
resource consent.
NZART has consequently put in a rather comprehensive submission to try
to achieve “Permitted Status� for a range of
“amateur configurations�. We have to win this one
because if Auckland Council, with nearly a third of all amateurs in NZ,
wins this case, it is probable that it will become the template for most
other districts as they review their district plans in the future.
The Submission Status
On schedule on 11 June 2014, Auckland Council announced it had prepared
a Summary of the “Decisions Requested Report� on the
proposed Auckland Unitary Plan, and said “All submissions and
the report are available on the council website
www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/unitaryplan “
The submission which NZART submitted can be seen on the VHF Group
website (www.qsl.net/zl1bq) and is a narrative of 26 pages, followed by
several technical attachments running to two hundred pages. We were
assigned the submission number 4498. Council officers have distilled
this down to a summary as required by section 149F(2) of the Resource
Management Act 1991 (RMA). It can be described as 20 cryptic
“amendments� to the Notified Unitary Plan that are
generated by our requests. These are numbered 4498-1 through to 4498-20
on pages 385/386 of the council report. At this stage, the council
report does not contain any explanations of why we require these
amendments. The planners’ recommendations either for or against
the changes we require will not appear until prior to the Hearings
scheduled for the end of 2014 in the s42A Report required by the RMA.
Council goes on to say:
As provided by clause 8(1) of Schedule 1 of the RMA, the following
persons may make a further submission:
(a) any person representing a relevant aspect of the public interest;
and
(b) any person that has an interest in the proposed Auckland Unitary
Plan greater than the interest that the general public has; and
(c) Auckland Council.
Further submissions are limited to matters in support of or in
opposition to the relevant original submission and must be made by 5pm
on 22 July 2014. They must be in the prescribed form – Form 3 in
the Schedule of the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure for
Auckland Combined Plan) Regulations 2013.
Forms are available on the council website mentioned above and at
Auckland Council libraries, service centers and local board offices.
All Radio Amateurs, no matter where you are in New Zealand, are
encouraged to send in further Submissions.
By Monday 23rd June 2014, the NZART Steering Committee intends to place
some sample “Further Submission� templates on the VHF
Group website (www.qsl.net/zl1bq). These forms, together with the
explanatory narrative, can be down-loaded and filled in, then either
posted, or emailed, to reach Auckland Council on or before 5:00pm on 22
July 2014.
Please take action now – we must not lose this case.
Douglas Birt ZL1BFS
NZART Local Government Liaison Officer
Mobile 027 492 5189
4. Wanted - Copy for Break-In.
My stock of articles etc for future issues is running low so I appeal to
members to assist with material for publication.
This could be short or long articles on any topic related to amateur
radio and electronics, constructional articles, workshop practice,
booÂ*k reviews, equipment reviews, software reviews and branch
activity reports.
Do you have an idea for an article for Break-In but not sure where to
start? Your Editor can put you in touch with someone to help you get
started!
We have a column in Break-In titled “Around the
Branches�. Asked for is more input from the branches with their
activities, training new members to amateur radio, science and education
to name a few. Newly licensed amateurs are also welcome to introduce
themselves in this column.
Contact the Editor at
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Stephen Hayman ZL1TPH
5. Notice of Deceased Estate sale of Amateur Equipment
ESTATE OF ZL2APC A lifetime's collection of Amateur Receivers,
Transceivers, Test Equipment, Receiving and Transmitting Valves, ARRL
CDROMs, etc., to be sold by Tender closing at Noon on 26th June 2014.
Please email for a complete list, or see:
www.vhf.org.nz/tender-zl2apc
6. IARU HF World Championship 2014
>Subject: IARU 2014
The annual IARU HF World Championship will be held on the weekend of
July 12 and 13, 2014.
The complete rules can be found at
http://www.arrl.org/iaru-hf-championship.
During this year's event the World Radiosport Team Championship will
take place within the IARU Contest.
I am collecting information as to what IARU Headquarters (HQ) stations
and IARU Officials (AC, R1, R2 and R3) will be active during the
contest. Can you please supply me with the callsign that will be used,
the list of operators if possible, the QSL information, the IARU
abbreviation (i.e.ARRL) and any other details you see of interest. This
information will be published in The Daily DX and The Weekly DX.
In addition if you have any DX news in the future please let me know.
Also can you please verify that your IARU society information is correct
at http://www.iaru.org/iaru-soc.html
Thank you,
Bernie McClenny, W3UR
Editor of The Daily DX, The Weekly DX and How's DX?
Two week trial - http://www.dailydx.com/trial.html
https://twitter.com/dailydx
410-489-6518
7. Hamilton Amateur Radio Club –Market Day
Hamilton Amateur Radio Club
MARKET DAY
Saturday August 9th, 2014
Waikato Table Tennis Stadium
Edgecumbe Street, Hamilton
Vendors from 8.00 am
Buyers from 10.00 am
Table space at $20 per metre pre-paid, $25 per metre on the day
All enquiries to:
Market Day,
Hamilton Amateur Radio Club,
PO Box 606, Hamilton
or
E-mail:
Web: http://zl1ux.org.nz/market_day.html
8. Official Broadcast
June NZART Official Broadcast Sunday 29th at 8pm & 9pm on 3900 LSB and
the National System.
73
Jim ZL2BHF
Off Shore News Links
· WIA News
· ARRL News & Features
· RSGB News
· IARU Region 3
NZART Housekeeping
· Break-In-Closing Date Reminder:
Copy for the July/August issue of Break-In closes on 10 July 2014.
· Copy for Break-In:
Copy in word.doc or word.docx files is preferred. Photos and other
graphics should be send as separate discrete files (*.jpg preferred);
not as embedded pictures 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. Early receipt of
copy is much appreciated with thanks.
Stephen Hayman ZL1TPH Interim Editor: Email >
· Break-In: AREC Column:
The close-of-copy date is Thursday 3 July 2014 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
· Next HQ-Infoline: - Friday 4 July 2014. Closing date for
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