Wellington Amateur Radio Club - ZL2WB

All attendees at the 17 May meeting were invited to provide a tip that would make life better for others. Bernard ZL2BD's tip at the April meeting got us started: Bernard ZL2BD suggests that the iCom 13 pin accessory plug is a bit of an oddball, and that you can make an adapter to a DB15 socket that takes away the pain of soldering wires to the 13 pin plug. A range of other equipment can then be connected using standard DB15 plugs. These are cheap and easily soldered. John ZL2HD brought along a bunch of 10 tips (not all amateur radio related). His best tips included: Use Google mail - you can use it to clear all of your email boxes and send from your old address as well. It removes all of the spam from your inbox. Google calendar lets you get your calendar on all your devices Use automated direct debit - Life's too short to be writing and mailing cheques or going in to pay a bill. John also suggested using Google Drive Scan to capture valuable documents (like your passport when travelling overseas). Mike ZL1AXG noted that Evernote Snanable (works on Android and iOS) would convert…

On 19 April 2017 Bernard ZL2BD and Frank ZL2TTS gave us a talk about and subsequently demonstrated this game changing SDR Txcvr from Icom!

The incoming WARC Inc Committee met on Monday 27 March and have come up with an advance programme for the balance of this year: Wed 19 April - SDR radios - a hands-on demo of the Icom IC7300 Wed 17 May - Vote on Remits Conference - A topic to be confirmed Wed 21 June - Nostalgia nosh-up night - should be a good evening! Wed 19 July - Topic to be confirmed Wed 16 August - Valve-era competition night. This will be a fun night! Wed 20 September - Our favourite presenter returns (subject to confirmation) Wed 18 October - Annual Blackwood Cup (get the project going now!) Wed 15 November - Remits night - topic to be confirmed Wed 6 December - Christmas Dinner (with a new venue!)

The Wellington Amateur Radio Club Inc is a registered charity. Each year we provide Charity Services (at the Department of Internal Affairs) with our financial reports. This year we had to provide a lot more detail, including a statement of service performance. The information we provided to Charity Services is included in the documents below.   [wpdm_package id=2995 order_field=title order=desc]   [wpdm_package id=2997 order_field=title order=desc]  

The Annual General Meeting was held on Wednesday 15 March 2017 at the Lutheran Church Hall, Mt Cook at 7.30pm. The meeting elected a new committee with a new Chairperson, John ZL2HD and a new Committee Member (Bernard ZL2BD). Our Secretary-Treasurer (Doug ZL2AOV) continues in the role, whereas Mike ZL1AXG continues as a committee member. The meeting farewelled Bjorn ZL2ET from the Committee. WARC will look to reform itself again to being simply Branch 50 NZART as a result of falling membership. [wpdm_category id=draft-annual-reports-feb-2017 order_field=title order=desc]