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Papakura Radio Club inc.& NZART Branch 65, Papakura.1 Great South Road, Papakura. |
National System Award 2010 The National System Award for 2010 started on January 1st and concludes on February 7th. The award is shorter and with different rules to previous NS Awards. This year the Hamilton Radio Club are the organisers and have included category 1 Historic Places Trust sites to the mix. Click the following link to view the 2010 rules.
�National System Award Rules10� �National System Award Site complete list
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National System Award 2010And now it's all over....Do you have a picture for this page or a short story of the fun you have had with this years award... send it to me... E-mail [email protected] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The following entries are from the 2010 Hamilton National System Award, 2010.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Always an interesting question during awards like this.... What Branch area am I in?? Well, the following may help in this area. In your browser open http://maps.google.com In the search box enter http://www.quicktrip.co.nz/nibranches.kml It may take a few seconds to load but the maps will change to NZ with markers for the branches and the blue lines represent the "edges" of the branch territory. This is worked out by calculating for each point on the map what is the closest branch to find the owner. Zoom in and you can get a lot of details. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This years award is a two part challenge. One part is to make contacts with another operator in another branch area or work others from your location. Only one contact is required and there is no bonus for multi contacts, but multi contacts from your location will help others. It does not matter where you live or what NZART Branch you are a member of... your current location at the time of the contact is the important part. You give out the branch number that covers your current location, your callsign and the time of the contact for both of your logs. Some operators are only giving out their branch numbers ... NOT collecting them so listen and dont waste time offering numbers that are not wanted. The other part of the award is contacts from other or making contact with others from catagory one Historic Places Trust listings. The Historic Places Trust register can be searched at http://www.historic.org.nz/ and click on Register at the top of their page. Click on this link and you will open a page with reference to the National System Award on the Historic Places Trust site. When operating this award we should all remember that someone is on the side of the road giving out numbers and many may be waiting their turn to make a contact so..... BE QUICK... listen and record the number at the very least... you can look up the name of the location from the register shown above. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jan 6th Raymond, ZL1RGM will be travelling Cambridge to Stratford and working branches and sties over the next week... Jan 9th James, ZL3FV hopes to be working some of the Greymouth sites over the weekend 9 - 10th Jan. look for him calling... Jan 9th Colin ZL4KJ and Alan ZL4ACG will be operating between Gore, Roxburgh, Lawrence, Milton and Balclutha. Jan 9th Jim ZL2BHF is mobile Taupo to Napier... travels south to Wellington and on to Nelson over the next cople of weeks. Jan 9th Richard ZL/GU8FBO is mobile from Auckland to Ohope... then travels south over the next 2 weeks or so. Jan 9th David ZL2DW is mobile Taupo to Hastings during the mid morning. Jan 14th Dave ZL2BCA is heading off towards Takaka and points to the West of Neslon... (Br 24??) Jan 16th Jim Zl1AVR is heading towards Coromandle and will have Mercury Bay Br.85 available as well as other sites. Jan 16th Ric ZL1RIC will be our and around the Gisborne area. Jan 18th David Zl1DK is flying to Wellington and driving to Auckland 9am on... during the day and early evening. Jan 23rd Graeme ZL2UFN intends to go to Wanganui on Saturday to activate the Historical sites there. Jan 25th Dave ZL2BHE mobile from Golden Bay thru Reefton Buller area around noon to 3pm plus or minus!! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Alan, ZL4ACG sent the following... It is a long haul down here to operate on the National System as the nearest repeater is located at Mt Stuart west of Balclutha/Milton 130 kms (Google Maps Distance Finder) from Invercargill and my QTH. The distance was even greater when I gave the Ringway Stables Historic site from near Otautau in Western Southland .. possibly in the order of 150kms. This would I imagine account for the quality of my signal at times .... both receive and transmit. 
This site is near the Edendale Dairy factory aprox 30 kms east of Invercargill on SH 1. The house itself was a short distance behind my vehicle buried deep in native bush. This location was the drive way entrance to the house. The signal path was extremely narrow as a few degrees either side and I lost the repeater on Mount Stuart 434.850Mhz. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
Denese, ZL3HI sent in the pics shown above. At some sites it is not possible to get a photo. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
Steve ZL2KG sent these pics in... look out for Steve as he travels around the lower NI ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
Graeme ZL2UFN sent these photos in... taken while visiting New Plymouth sites. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ More just received from Alan ZL4ACG... 
Alan, ZL4ACG's vehicle used for contacts from Southland 
Activating Branch 61 Central Otago through the Mount Stuart repeater 434.850Mhz. Myself ZL4ACG and Colin ZL4KJ 
09.01.2010 Millers Flat on SH8. Outside the Wardens Court, Historic Place Register No 5184, Lawrence, Central Otago. today 09.01.2010. Myself ZL4ACG and Colin ZL4KJ 
Doing it in style 09.10.2010 afternoon tea main street of Milton whilst activating Tokomairiro Church (Presbyterian), Historic site Register No 2250. Colin ZL4KJ and myself ZL4ACG ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
Steve, ZL2KG has sent this photo in of his trip to Shannon today... Jan 11th.. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
David ZL1DGK has offered these photos taken during his trip around Tauranga ... Jan 10th.. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
Taken from top of Kelvin Hotel, Invercargill. Branch 37 Southland members working the National System Award 2010. A ball of fun but beset by interference from other radio equipment and poor propagation particulary on Sunday 17 January. We struggled to make Mount Stuart and in fact gave it away eventually. From Alan ZL4ACG .... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
More from Alan. ZL4ACG from one of his trips to Historic sites. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hope you all enjoyed the past few days of my tripping around in the Sth Otago, Dunedin and Nth Otago as much as I did. It was an immense experience and very rewarding for myself personally having lived in both Dunedin and Oamaru. Unfortunately I was obliged to return to Invercargill late on Saturday evening for family reasons and didn't even turn the radio on on Sunday. Some rough statistics. 1/. My log has grown from 313 to 1013 contacts. I came home with 27 PDF log sheets(from Branch 12 website) 2/. All the Historic places in the Balclutha region have been logged .. except one 3/. Out of 81 Historic places in Dunedin City 61 have been logged .. 20 remain 4/. Three from 3 Historic Places in the Mosgiel area have been logged 5/. All 25 Historic Places in Oamaru have been logged. With regard 3 above I am giving some consideration of making a day trip to Dunedin next weekend to log the final 20 sites. This would depend on a number of factors but mostly being interest from award participants. Perhaps you could offer your opinions here?? 
Attached is a couple of photographs I took in my travels(more to follow when I sort). This fellow was outside the one and only Historic Place at Duntroon in the Waitaiki Valley. I reckon the poor bloke should be given a hand held !! Wonder if any clever computer person could arrange that ?? Kind regards, 73's Alex C Glennie ZL4ACG ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
This was really worth the trip to find #7308 Strachan's Cave, we overshot it by about 2 kilometers as there was no signage to point it out, (probably a wise thing as it could easily be vandalized) but asking a friendly lady in a paddock pointed us to the right place! As you will see from the photos included, it is hard to see from the road and it is not very big inside. The only room we could stand up in was the second room, the rest had low ceilings and the last passage was very narrow. A great find!!! 73 Graeme ZL2UFN ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
More photos from Graeme ZL2UFN from his trip to Historic sites in and around Wanganui. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
Terry, ZL1BPA forwarded the photos in the block above from around the Auckland area. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
David ZL1DK's trip Wellington / Auckland on the 23rd. January 2010. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ... still adding to this page ... more to follow ................ |
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Papakura Radio Club inc.
1 Great South Road, Papakura
P.O.Box 72397, Papakura 2244
(09) 2989297
E-mail [email protected]
