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
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Join the adventure!
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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Safety is the main concern of the 2023 Daybreaker Rally, not only for competitors, but volunteers and spectators as well.
Knowing this members from the Manawatū AREC Group stood up Net control and stationed Radio operators at the start, end, and in most cases somewhere in the middle to assist in the transfer of both emergency and routine messages during 150km of some of New Zealand's most iconic rally stages.
And we would be remiss if we didn't remind you you can sign up to help during the next AREC event by contacting Darren ZL2DAZ.
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Great to catchup with Bart today.
His heart is with the volunteers who use SAR Track and he continues to develop it to meet your needs.
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The Amateur Radio Emergency Communication (AREC) service of New Zealand has boosted its capabilities to support frontline AREC teams with the rollout of a new support vehicle.
Based in Central Hawkes Bay, the new support vehicle will be used by our Regional Manager Simon Osborne to support our incident management volunteers and search, rescue, and emergency management partners within the Te Tairāwhiti, Hawke's Bay, Taranaki, Manawatū-Whanganui, Wairarapa, Capital and Coast regions.
To find out more about AREC please visit our new website
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