If only there were a way to communicate over long distances, particularly in an emergency, without relying on cables or satellites.

Reminder: NZ Straight Key Night is tomorrow, Sunday 12 June from 0800 to 0900 UTC on 80m. Hope to hear you! radio1nz.com/skn

Club Net this evening at 0800Z on 145.775 Musick Point repeater.

NZART Memorial Contest has been held every year since 1946 to commemorate NZ radio amateurs killed in WW2. The contest is on 80m, 0800-1100 UTC this Sat and Sun evening. nzart.org.nz/activ.../conte… #hamradio

The next meeting of MPRG will be Sunday 10 July, 1pm at Musick Memorial Radio Station. The GROTA military radios group will be on AM around 7.125 from 1.00 pm, and we hope to join them from the station after our meeting.

CW ops: The latest edition of NZ Net News is available to read free online at radio1nz.com/about-amateur-… #hamradio #hamr #morsecode #newzealand

Franklin Amateur Radio Club Junk Sale, Tuesday 19 July, 7.30 PM at the Clubrooms, 19 Stadium Drive, Pukekohe

CW ops: The latest edition of NZ Net News is available to read free online at radio1nz.com/about-amateur-… #hamradio #hamr #morsecode #newzealand

Next meeting of Musick Point Radio Group is this Sunday at 1pm at Musick Memorial Radio Station. If you'd like to visit, please contact us via musickpointradio.org #hamradio #auckland

Welcome to our newest member: Wentao, ZL1WEN, who passed her #hamradio exam at Musick Point.

This edition of NZ Net News includes details of the radio installation about royal yacht Gothic/MAUQ for the 1953-1954 visit to New Zealand.

CW ops: The latest edition of NZ Net News is available to read free at radio1nz.com/about-amateur-… #hamradio #hamr #morsecode #newzealand

Doreen Bogdan-Martin, KD2JTX, is Elected as ITU Secretary General The ITU, the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, elected Doreen as the first female SG and only the third to hold an amateur license in the position! #hamradio

Congratulations to MPRG member Wentao Dong ZL1WEN, the new Youth Officer for NZART!

Auckland Radio transmitter building in 1946. The transmitter site was in Oliver Road, Eastern Beach. Operators at the Musick Point receiving station were connected to the transmitters (keying & audio circuits) via two telephone cables laid along different routes for redundancy.

here's a fun trip for your mind palace, the concept of pressing a button to actuate a machine does not come into existence until the 1880s. if you're wondering how the hell anything worked before that, oh boy that's a lot of BAD UI/UX happening

Another OTH radar on the way. How much will it disrupt HF radio communications?

CW ops: The latest edition of NZ Net News is available to read free at radio1nz.com/about-amateur-… #hamradio #hamr #morsecode #newzealand

Gareth Bradshaw ZL3VP of Christchurch has become a Silent Key, aged 80. He is pictured here while visiting Musick Point in 2012.

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