Branch 50 (Wellington) NZART – Known as the Wellington Amateur Radio Club
Experiments with equipment for a remote site continue … Bernard has now completed breadboards for connecting his Four Square remote controllers to Arduinos (both Mega and Uno arduino boards are on the breadboard) at each end (remote site and in Wellington). Now, for writing the software …
Dave VE3GSO will speak at our April meeting about his experience with digital modes in Ontario, Canada. Come along to the Lutheran Church Hall, King St, Mt Cook at 7.30pm on Wednesday 15 April.
The AGM on Tuesday 17 March 2015 set this year’s subscription at $30, a rise of $5.
Direct payment to the club’s bank account is preferred.
Use your name and callsign as identifiers.
Please pay to Wellington Amateur Radio Club Inc
ANZ Wellington South 06-0577-0121800-00
Deposits over $30 will have the balance treated as a donation. Donations are most welcome. Receipts will be available on club nights, or by special arrangement.
Please note that cheques posted to the club mailbox may take some weeks to be delivered to the treasurer. Note that your newsletter subscription will be automatically come to an end if subscriptions are not in the treasurer’s hands by the end of the club meeting on Wednesday 20 May 2015.
For at least 11 months of every year, for the past 50 years, the Secretary or the Newsletter Editor of Branch 50 NZART (now Wellington Amateur Radio Club Inc) has prepared a newsletter for mailing to members with club news. Most of these newsletters have made it into the club’s archives, but sadly a proportion of issues have not been filed.
You can now read back in time as all copies of newsletters that we have in our archives have now been loaded on to the website. They have also been backed up on to hard drives and the cloud so that the hard copies cluttering up committee member’s garages can be disposed off.
It would be great if somebody had the time to write up a history of key events and activities spanning the 50 year period and to make a list of those occupying executive roles in each of the last 50 years. Let Mike ZL1AXG know if you have the time to do the necessary research!
It would also be good to fill some of the gaps where we do not have newsletters, particularly missing years (like 2009 and 1999 from recent history). If you have any of the following issues it would be good if you could let Mike ZL1AXG know so they can be scanned:
1965: January, March
1967: January, April.
1969: February
1970: February
1971: July.
1976: January, February, March.
1978: March through October, and December.
1979: All issues.
1980: All issues.
1981: All issues.
1982: All issues.
1983: January to August inclusive.
1989: February.
1990: July.
1997: April.
1998: September.
1999: All issues.
If we can’t locate the missing issues amongst members, we will need to approach the National Library, as in theory, all issues are kept by the Library. Let Mike know if you can help with follow up with the Library in the event we cannot locate copies amongst members.