NZART NZART Headquarters Infoline Issue 299
4 July 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. IARU Region 3 Newsletter6.
IARU HF World Championship 2014
7. Hamilton Amateur Radio Club – Market Day
8. Official Broadcast
Off Shore News Links
NZART Housekeeping
1. Debby says . . .
An urgent reminder to all branches who are wishing to take advantage of
the public liability insurance cover advised by the President ZL1VH.I
need to know your branch name and physical address of your meetings.
This does not cover plant and equipment and cannot be considered at this
time, due to the varying covers required as each branch has different
levels necessary to do so. Your branch should have contents insurance to
cover the eventuality of loss or damage.
As I have been away there may be a few e-mails that I haven’t
responded to that require urgent attention. My apologies for the delay,
I can assure you that these will be responded to on my return.
Talk soon…Debby ZL2DL
2. FMTAG Notes
FMTAG NOTES FOR HQ INFOLINE 299
CALL BOOK 2014-2015
All Branches owning beacons, links and/or repeaters should have received
an email requesting that they check their proposed Call Book listing,
and add the call signs of two Trustees for each station in the list.
As at 3rd July, 32 out of 54 Branches had not responded.
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:
PROPOSAL
Branch 74 Wellington VHF has applied for a 70-centimetre digital
repeater at Colonial Knob, located at TOPO50 BP31 516426. The repeater
will transmit on 439.750 MHz and receive on 434.750 MHz. The modulation
modes will be: ETSI ETS 102 361 DMR and EIA P25 Phase 1. An engineering
evaluation, in accordance with RSM document PIB38, confirms that there
will be no interference to other stations.
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. IARU Region 3 News
The latest Newsletter is available at
<http://iaru-r3.org/category/newsletter/>
6. IARU HF World Championship 2014 and Michael J. Owen VK3KI
Award.
The 2014 IARU HF World Championship Contest takes place annually on the
second full weekend of July, beginning at 1200 UTC on Saturday and
ending at 1200 UTC Sunday (12-13 July 2014).
Both single and multi operator stations may operate for the entire 24
hour period.
All licensed amateurs worldwide are eligible to participate in this
contest. The objective is to contact as many other amateurs, and
especially IARU member society HQ stations, around the world.
The 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meter bands may be used.
Multipliers are the total number of ITU Zones plus IARU member society
HQ stations worked on each band (not mode).
Region 3 has 29 potential society stations. Last year 10 societies
participated in the contest from Region 3.
IARU officials represent a maximum of four multipliers per band (AC, R1,
R2 and R3) Regional EC members who are not AC members must use the
designator “R3�. Look out for Region 3 Councilors and
society stations.
The complete rules of the championship can be found at
http://www.arrl.org/iaru-hf-championship
This year there is an added incentive for an amateur from Region 3 as it
will be the second time the Michael Owen VK3KI award is issued for the
Region 3 amateur who receives the highest number of points during the
championship.
The inaugural (2013) winner of the Michael Owen VK3KI award, sponsored
by the Wireless Institute of Australia, was JH5GHM, Mr. Katsuhiro (Don)
Kondou as sole operator of station JH1GBZ.
Congratulations on a fine effort.
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 27th July at 8:00pm & 9:00pm 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 18 July 2014. Closing date for
this post is Thursday 17 July 2014.
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