Neville Digby, long time AREC member awarded Lifetime Service Award at RFUANZ Gala Dinner Industry Awards.
What do you value about being a volunteer for AREC?- An opportunity to serve the community - while using my hobby
skills.
- Being part of a team providing community good, while utilising
my technical radio skills.
- Friendships and the feeling of a job well done at the end of an
exercise or operation.
- Knowing my work is appreciated
While AREC celebrates its formal anniversary this year after 90 years, having being formed after the Napier Earthquake, there is some history where the AREC concepts were first mooted even before the 1929 Murchison Earthquake."NZART had been thinking about emergency communications since before the Murchison quake, including the design of a message relay network or 'guardship system' in 1929."
Southland AREC are an excellent example of what AREC stands for.They have a good relationship with Civil Defence, Land SAR, Police and many community groups. Are known to travel far and wide assisting with repeater installations and neighboring AREC Groups.
Photo - Regional Manger Lindsey Ross ZL4KS presenting a National Volunteer Week Certificate of Appreciation to Southland AREC Deputy Group Leader Daniel Erickson ZL4DE.
Tag Archives: DMR
DMR Downloads
DMR CODEPLUG DOWNLOADS These codeplugs are for the New Zealand AREC ZL-TRBO UHF network. They are maintained by Jeff ZL2JG. Jeff can be contacted by email at the last two letters of his callsign immediately followed by .waikanae@gmail.com for any … Continue reading
DMR Network
History Almost thirty years ago amateur radio operators in Auckland and Wellington worked together to install a Wellington to Auckland link on the UHF band. Later known as the National System, the network now covers New Zealand from the Bay … Continue reading
