AREC at community events
Amateur Radio Emergency Communication “AREC” the public service arm of the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters (NZART) formed by members who are individually licensed amateur radio operators.
Welcome to AREC New Zealand
Welcome to Amateur Radio Emergency Communication “AREC”. AREC is the public service arm of the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters (NZART) formed by members who are primarily individually licensed amateur radio operators. AREC provides skilled Volunteers enabling essential communications to support search and rescue, disaster response, and our community.
AREC.site
AREC’s legacy website and the technical information it contained is still available for a period of time at www.arec.site
Our Services
Communications
AREC provides a range of communications services covering the provision of highly trained, experience Volunteer radio operators delivering vital messaging services for search and rescue, civil emergencies and community events.
Training & Advice
AREC delivers high quality education, training and assessment of AREC volunteers and other partner organizations. Our volunteers deliver advice and guidance utilizing their extensive technical and operational knowledge.
Infrastructure & Equipment
AREC endeavours to provide and maintain suitable radio and communications technology equipment and infrastructure to enable our volunteers to provide a highly capable and responsive emergency communication service.
Volunteers
AREC’s 375 fully equipped Volunteers provide communications services for civil emergencies, search and rescue and community events.
264
Events attended by AREC + 126 SAR events
47
AREC groups
nationwide
375
AREC volunteers
8
AREC partners
(NZSAR, RCC, Police, LandSAR,)
Latest News
Southland AREC
Wet day at Dip Flat
long standing AREC members being recognised
Keeping in touch when it counts
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Join AREC as a volunteer
You will join a group and receive training to provide essential communications to support Search & Rescue, Disaster Response, and our community.
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Some photos of the Amateur Radio Emergency Communications (AREC) services display during today’s Emergency Services Expo hosted by Te Papa Museum on Wellington’s Waterfront.
Fantastic day, the huge crowd and that great support from Daniel Liddle, Brendon Clarke, Peter Ritchie, Ross Pedder, Ray Harkness, Annalise Mokalei-Smith, John Murphy and Simon Osborne made it a successful event.
Absolutely, the best part was seeing the kids turn up to operate the Morse Code training unit, PRS handheld radios and tracking down the Te Papa MC and his endless supply of AREC lollies using the WanderSearch tracking device.
Thank you once again for your time and service.
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Otago AREC Members are once again proudly supporting the Otago Rally this weekend.
Things are looking under control in Rally HQ this morning.
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AREC HB volunteers from Hastings and Napier work tirelessly alongside the local Police to assist in an overnight Mini-SAREX (Search and Rescue Exercise) involving an overdue fisherman and LandSAR field teams in the Whirinaki / Tangoio area (5-6 Apr, 24).
This is another great example of interoperability between SAREM partners.
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