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Month: February 2017

Pukerimu

I am fortunate my work brings me into contact with many rural folk. During a site visit preparing for a job, I inquired with the customer who owned the wee hill behind her house. Fortunately for me I was conversing with the owner and she was more than happy to let me access the hill for the purposes of photography and radio experimentation. Last Friday …

Waipuna

On our travels back from Wanganui we decided to call in to Waipuna to collect another summit for the log. It was a good opportunity to have a break from the long drive. This site is used to transmit beacons on 50, 144, 432 and 1296 MHz as well as 3 FM broadcast stations and microwave linking. So RF wise it was pretty busy. Thankfully …

Kauri Mountain

On our last day of the long weekend we thought we would activate Kauri Mountain before heading home. This track is part of the Te Arararoa Trail, or New Zealand’s Trail. However for some reason it does not show on DoC’s file of walking tracks (ftp://public:public@ftp.doc.govt.nz/Public/GIS/KMZ_Files_For_GIS_Software/DOC_Tracks_2017_01_26.kmz). We got our info for this summit from another blog here https://nzfrenzynorth.wordpress.com/c12/ before we set out. At the carpark …