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Welcome to all Ham Radio operators to Linux.conf.au 2010

The association for New Zealand Amateurs is the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters (NZART) Their website is at http://www.nzart.org.nz and the page specific to visitors to New Zealand from overseas is at http://www.nzart.org.nz/nz/visitors.html This page covers most of the details of what callsign to use and other restrictions to operating while in New Zealand.

Other useful information:

Local Branches of NZART in the Wellington Region are:

• Wellington VHF Group Branch 74 - http://www.vhf.org.nz
• Upper Hutt Branch 63 - ZL2VH - http://www.zl2vh.org.nz/
• Lower Hutt Branch - ZL2HV - http://www.zl2hv.wellington.net.nz/

2m Repeaters in New Zealand use a +-600 offset and the repeaters around the Wellington Region are:

• Lower Hutt 700 (147.000) Located above Lower Hutt
• Belmont 710 (147.100) Located above Lower Hutt
• Climie 730 (147.300) Located above Upper Hutt - IRLP 6931

Jim ZL2PU

• Please add or correct information as you see fit