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Sunday 27th July 2025 saw the first AllStarLink Node go live on 7125 at North Range Road. Allmon3 Dashboard shows the status https://allmon.zlwan.net/allmon3/

Thursday 24th July 2025 saw the DStar Repeater installed at North Range Road, it is currently under test with a dummy load connected, antenna install to follow. once this is live it will replace the VHF high power hot spot that has been running in Palmerston North for a number of years. http://dstar.nrr.zlwan.net

On Saturday 16th May the ADS-B Receiver and primary data path (provided by InspireNet) was brought online. http://adsb.mae.zlwan.net/tar1090/

Saturday 29th March saw the Maewa Site brought online with a cellular connection. Primary path to come. This site will host a DMR repeater and ADS-B receiver.

On Saturday 14th December a small team did a couple of tidy up jobs before Christmas at North Range Road, including installing a PTZ camera up the mast. 15 minute snapshots are available to view at https://cameras.zlwan.net/

Today we become 1st place in New Zealand on the ADS-B Exchange Leaderboard. We have been moving between 1st to 3rd place depending on the day. The scores are calculated once a day based on the last 30 days of data. The busy Auckland based receivers have an advantage of more positions however we are…

Today we brought two Proxmox hosts online with the intention of either having a second pair on another site or at least splitting this pair between two sites. These will be running our core services, nameservers, DNS resolvers, documentation wiki, network status etc.

While we where on a club tour of our site at North Range Road we took the oppotunity to swap out the full small 5 port router at North Range Road and upgrade it to a 10 port model to make room for upcoming linking devices.

Our ADS-B Exchange Receiver at North Range Road is now on the network and available to view at http://adsb.nrr.zlwan.net/tar1090/

Both the Manawatu DMR repeater at North Range Road and Whanganui DMR repeater at Landguard Road have been moved to the ZL WAN allocated 44Net Public IP Space. Testing shows that both repeaters peer together and remain peered during a internet outage due to the redundant linking path’s between the sites.

About 12pm on Thursday 21st March 2024, our 44.31.255.0/24 subnet was announced to the globe and routed to our edge router thanks to the team at Inspire Net. This is a great milestone to achieve and we look forward to moving our existing sites and services onto this space and expand the network and it’s…

After the due diligence by Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) on Monday 4th March we received a letter of authorization to use the 44.31.255.0/24 subnet allocated by ARDC. Our original design used a /22 block in the New Zealand allocated 44.147.0.0/16, however ARDC our not authorizing BGP assignments in that space anymore and have set…

We have now started tagging and recording all of our donated and loaned assets.

Ryan ZL1RKW and Damon ZL1ELC traveled down to Paraparaumu on Saturday 20th January 2024 to present on ZL WAN, what we have started, our vision and our trials underway in the Manawatu-Whanganui.

Monday 8th January saw the Landguard Road ZL WAN node go live alongside the new Whanganui DMR repeater, including replacing the UHF antenna.